This last week was rather quiet and a good part of the notable news & links that I found interesting were related to the Montreal World Film Festival which is coming very soon. I’ve spent a lot of my spare time lately finishing my coverage from last year’s festival and preparing to cover its upcoming 40th anniversary edition.
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Lots of people are bitching about the festival. Those people want a glamorous festival like Cannes or Toronto, document.write(“”); but they really don’t understand the nature of the Montreal’s festival. I am not saying that the MWFF is without flaws (there are aplenty) but I am quite satisfied with what we have here: a quiet, fan-oriented festival that showcase film as an art-form and a vehicle of culture for film-makers from any country, of any age and of various skill levels. Toronto is a commercial festival. I don’t want to see stars that I can see everyday on TV or movies that will be released in theatres two weeks later. I want to see great stories and beautiful movies that I cannot see anywhere else but the MWFF. And there is plenty of stars there too: actors and directors from Japan, Portugal, Iran, Turkey, to name just a few places, and from all over Europe. That’s good enough for me. I just want to enjoy myself, to be amazed and I really don’t care about the politics of it all. I can’t understand why our various level of government want to punish movie fans and not support such a great festival.

• Jared Leto Cast in Blade Runner Sequel (Esquire)
• What is beyond our Solar System? The mystery of the icy Kuiper Belt (Wired UK)
• Mars‘ Fuyumi Soryo Launches Marie Antoinette Series (ANN, AnimeLand)
• Isabelle Adjani at the MWFF to Present Louis-Julien Petit’s film Carole Matthieu (link)
• Willem Dafoe to accompany My Hindu Friend at the MWFF (link)
• Le 40e FFM se dévoile (Le Devoir)
• 40e FFM : une partie du programme (enfin) dévoilée (La Presse)
• Dévoilement des films en compétition pour le 40e FFM (Ici Radio-Canada)
• First coverage of the Japanese movies at the MWFF from Coco Montreal (Issuu)
• FFM: grandeur et misères d’un événement ambitieux (La Presse)
• Un 40e FFM contre vents et marées… (La Presse)
• Full schedule of the MWFF 2016 screenings (PDF)
• It becometh the iceman: clothing study reveals stylish secrets of leather-loving ancient (The Guardian)
• Airlander 10: Maiden flight at last for longest aircraft (BBC)
• This totally redesigned condom just raised $1 million (Mashable)
• Massive Windows 10 Update Causing Serious New Problems (Forbes)
• “Magic” Shoe Discovered inside University Wall (Archaeology Magazine)
• Nasa to make all its research available free on the Internet (The Telegraph)
• 23andMe helps identify genetic links to common skin cancer (Engadget)
• NASA plans to hand over the ISS to a private corporation (Engadget)

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