Weekly podcast - November 9th, 2009 edition
This week in the podcast: the Fort Hood shooter wakes up, Bogota and Caracas exhange threats, and Rupert Murdoch wants to retire his content from Google.

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Cinémania - J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster: well done, but too much
Shot in black and white, the last feature film from Samuel Benchetrit follows the now everlasting line of directors who take most of their inspiration from known cineasts.

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The Magic Flute, or Mozart for all
The piece of art is hundreds of years old, but is always charming. Spectators were filled with wonder as they exited the first reprensation of Mozart's Magic Flute, given at the Place des Arts.

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Cinémania: Fais-moi plaisir!
The french-speaking film festival Cinémania opened up yesterday at the Imperial cinema with the presentation of Fais-moi plaisir!, a movie from the French actor and director Emmanuel Mouret. Montreal's biggest names gathered in this magnificent theather to launch the 15th edition of the festival. A little bit lightweight, but strangely powerful, this comedy gives a great start to those ten days of francophone cinema celebration.

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Cinémania: Le concert, from Radu Mihaileanu
After opening Cinémania in 2005 with Vas, vis et deviens (2005 Audience award), Radu Mihaileanu will now close the event with Le concert, his last film, as upsetting as it is burlesque.

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The Men Who Stare at Goats
Mental control, Vietnam and Iraq wars, and don't forget the goats; The Men Who Stare at Goats is all that, and even more. It's also a movie where George Clooney, Ewan McGregor and Jeff Bridges give each other the counterpart over a flower power background. Strange? Certainly. Fun? Of course.

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