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Monsieur Lazhar
Winner: The City of Toronto Award for Best Canadian Feature Film
From Film Circuit darling Philippe Falardeau (C’est pas moi, je le jure!) and the producers of last year’s smash-hit Incendies comes Monsieur Lazhar, one of the most gripping québécois films of the last decade. |
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The Artist
French director Michel Hazanavicius' black-and-white silent film follows George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a silent-era film star struggling to make it in the talkies. This witty and visually enthralling homage to early cinema features supporting performances by Malcolm MacDowell, John Goodman and James Cromwell. |
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The Iron Lady
In what has easily been the most anticipated and talked-about film of the year, The Iron Lady reunites director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) with screen legend Meryl Streep in a surprising and intimate portrait of British political icon Margaret Thatcher – the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Adapted from John le Carré’s classic Cold War spy novel of the same name, and starring a who’s who of British acting talent, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a fascinating look at the disenchanted world of espionage and treachery. Unglamorous but certainly not unexciting, the film is the anti-James Bond where gadgets and girls are replaced with drab duds and anonymous office space, cool colours and muted emotions. |
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A Dangerous Method
For his third consecutive collaboration with Viggo Mortensen, David Cronenberg adapts Christopher Hampton's 2002 stage play concerning the turbulent relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and his mentor Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) as they struggle to treat a troubled patient (Keira Knightley). |
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Pink Ribbons, Inc.
Léa Pool’s devastating documentary about the industry and “culture” around breast cancer, addresses the rise of corporate involvement in fund-raising for charities (as one activist describes it “cause marketing”) and the impact it has had on research into the disease. Powerful and incendiary, the film is an important and timely piece from one of our finest Canadian filmmakers. |
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Albert Nobbs
Glenn Close co-wrote and stars in this adaptation of the play about a nineteenth-century Irishwoman who disguises herself as a man and works as a butler for twenty years. Mia Wasikowska, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Aaron Johnson co-star in this intelligent and often surprising period drama. |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Ewan McGregor stars as a fisheries scientist who finds himself saddled with the task of introducing salmon fishing to the Highlands of Yemen. Director Lasse Hallström adapts this charming British comedy from Paul Torday’s acclaimed novel. |
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My Week With Marilyn
Few celebrities have been able to rival the allure and magnetism of Hollywood’s most tragic and enduring icon, Marilyn Monroe. With My Week With Marilyn, director Simon Curtis offers a fascinating dramatized glimpse during Marilyn Monroe's time shooting one of Hollywood's most challenging film productions, The Prince and the Showgirl. |
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Carnage
In his follow-up to 2010’s The Ghost Writer, director Roman Polanski returns with his caustic and witty new film Carnage. Adapted from Yasmina Reza’s 2009 Tony-winning play God of Carnage, and featuring a top-notch cast of Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz, Carnage is a captivating and explosively comic study in the tension between civilized surface and savage instinct. |