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Precious moment
Thanks to gritty themes, and a spellbinding performance by its previously unknown star, Precious deserves its status as the toast of the film-festival circuit
Burma VJ 4
Burma VJ is a well-told and seemingly balanced look at Buddhits monks' 2007 protests against the Burmese authorities.
The Informant!
With a bumbling, unreliable narrator and inaccessible lead character, The Informant! quickly becomes boring.
Well scripted
The actor Matt Damon, who can be seen tomorrow in The Informant at MEIFF, speaks about the movie, his project with Clint Eastwood and another Bourne movie.
Collected memories
The Turkish filmmaker Pelin Esmer talks about her melancholic new drama playing at the festival.
Unique landscape
The French director Claire Denis speaks about her latest Africa-set film, White Material, which shows at MEIFF.
Life after Heath
Terry Gilliam's Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was made in the shadow of the death of its star, Heath Ledger.
Not your regular war movie
The Serbian director Vladimir Perisic talks about the award-winning movie Ordinary People
The Haunting in Connecticut
The Haunting in Connecticut is an entertaining story that relies on surprises rather than gore.
Director's debut draws on a life-changing moment
The director Ounie Lecomte's debut film, A Brand New Life, draws upon her own experiences as a child abandoned by her family.
The ones to watch
As the Venice Film Festival gets under way, a look at the promising entries, the stories that are attracting controversy, and the most talked-about screenings.
Horsemen
The director Jonas Ackerlund has shown in his commercial and music-video work that he is a supreme stylist
