Canuck

  Friday, 17 September 2004

America's hearts of darkness < 12:54:30 AM>.

Will a documentary about John Kerry have any affect on the upcoming U.S. election?
The setting may be almost as significant as the timing: As Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times on Sunday, the film is being launched "in a country that is itself synonymous with anti-Vietnam protest." Canada, which declined to join George W. Bush's "coalition of the willing" in invading Iraq, again stands on the side of American dissent.

This isn't the first time there has been a Canadian angle to American political documentaries. Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine was produced by Canadians. Both Moore and Butler are enthusiastic about their attachment to Canada.

A film about Kerry's vietnam experience premiers at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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As it winds on, this year's Toronto Film Festival feels both utterly chaotic and at the same time governed by some strange, complex principle of symmetry. [New York Times: Arts]

Lots of good karma coming from reviews of the TIFF this year.

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Canadian Press - MONTREAL (CP) - A provincewide sweep of marijuana fields has netted police more than 60,000 pot plants and 71 arrests. [Yahoo! News - World]

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Canadian Press - UNITED NATIONS (AP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called for urgent action Thursday to stop attacks on civilians in western Sudan and announced he is sending UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour of Canada and a special adviser on genocide, Juan Mendes, to Sudan this weekend to see what can be done to provide better protection for civilians in the Darfur region. [Yahoo! News - World]

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Film: What makes the Toronto film festival different from other film festivals? Real people in the audience. B Ruby Rich reports. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Tim de Lisle lists 70 things you may not know about Leonard Cohen. [Guardian Unlimited]

70! Wow. 'I ache in the places that I used to play'.