TORONTO – It has become fashionable, almost obligatory, to condemn any “government initiative” involving monitoring of expenditures as an “extreme, ultra-right wing” attack on our rights. And so it is with the latest move by the Ford Government to bring the School Boards into line on their spending by placing several (five and counting) under direct supervision.
CORRIERE CANADESE / Sorrentino Bringing Intrigue Back to Cinema
TORONTO – Plot details for Paolo Sorrentino’s mysterious film project La Grazia have been kept under wraps since the film’s announcement last December. While the practice of withholding plots and/or titles is nothing new for filmmakers, La Biennale di Venezia’s announcement that La Grazia would be opening this year’s festival prompts a discussion on film marketing. La Grazia is being tagged a “love story”, but this could be an intentional misnomer. Sylvester Stallone for instance has famously proclaimed that his 1976 classic was a love story with a boxing backdrop…
