Author Archives: tamsen

Woody Allen’s follow up to Midnight in Paris— his love letter to the City of Light — in which he turns his attention to the Eternal City. Loosely inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, To Rome with Love is told … Continue reading →

At home in the Bathtub, a marshland cut off from the coast of Southern Louisiana, an unapologetically uncivilized band of humans live alongside the animals that sustain them, blissfully disconnected from their resource-burning neighbours to the north. Among them, six-year-old … Continue reading →

A spirited mixture of costume drama and slapstick comedy, Hysteria recounts the titillating true story of one of the Victorian era’s less publicized, but most beneficial, innovations: yes, this is the very first film to recreate the invention of the … Continue reading →

The story of an improbable friendship between Philippe (François Cluzet, Little White Lies, Tell No One) a wealthy quadriplegic, and Driss (Omar Sy, Micmacs), a young offender of Senegalese descent, who is hired as his live-in caregiver. Breaking box office … Continue reading →

Our tenth season wrapped on Monday May 14, 2012 with Monsieur Lazhar.   Join our email list Just plug in your name and email address in the form on to the right to receive your invitation to our September kick-off … Continue reading →

Directed by Lasse Hallström (The Shipping News, Chocolat), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen recounts the remarkable story of an unlikely hero who finds himself a victim in a political plot, discovers love, and learns to believe in the impossible. Ewan … Continue reading →

Adapted from John le Carré’s classic Cold War spy novel 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. This is the anti-James Bond, … Continue reading →

A love letter to 1920s Hollywood that resurrects silent cinema as a powerful and complex storytelling medium, The Artist was shot entirely in black and white, without dialogue and utilizing a traditional 1.33 aspect ratio. The tale is a familiar … Continue reading →

The Way is a touching film about the testy yet unbreakable bond between father and son, and the supportive, almost-familial connections that can form among strangers. Tom (Martin Sheen, Bobby, The Departed), an American ophthalmologist, learns that his son (real-life … Continue reading →

Directed by Ken Scott (Seducing Doctor Lewis), Starbuck is the French-language tale of a middle-aged man whose extended adolescence is about to come to an abrupt end. Twenty years earlier, in order to make some cash, David (Patrick Huard, Bon … Continue reading →