Arnaud Maggs: Reel Asians

Reel Asians: The winner of awards for Best Picture and Best Director at Japans Academy Awards last year, The Kirishima Thing is another highlight of the early days of Reel Asians new program. Based on a bestselling novel by Ryo Asai, Daihachi Yoshidas film is a deftly rendered drama about a group of high school students whose carefully maintained social order is thrown into disarray by the enigmatic disappearance of the schools most popular student. With its perceptive take on teenage desires, ambitions, insecurities and rivalries, The Kirishima Thing is an unusually acute and affecting study of adolescent existence and all its complications. Reel Asian patrons can see those treacherous high school hallways for themselves on Nov. 6 at 8:30 p.m. at the AGOs Jackman Hall, according to The Star. Doc Soup Spring Arnaud: A much-acclaimed American film about one familys experience of Alzheimers, The Genius of Marian is this months selection for the ever-popular Doc Soup program the Bloor hosts three screenings on Nov. 6 and 7. A new Canadian title that starts a run at the Annex movie house on Nov. 1, Spring Arnaud is an affectionate profile of Spring Hurlbut and Arnaud Maggs, two artists who enjoy a rare and special bond and To mark this new southward orientation, Reel Asian launches its 17th annual program with the Canadian premiere of Bombay Talkies, an omnibus project that debuted at Cannes in May. Made up of shorts by four of Bollywoods most celebrated directors, this exuberant celebration of Indian cinemas first century includes appearances by megastars such as Rani Mukerji and Amitabh Bachchan. It plays Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Isabel Bader Theatre. The slate of docs, features and shorts continues to Nov. 16 in theatres downtown and in Richmond Hill. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.