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National Post (Canada)
November 2, 2012 Friday
National Edition
Spend the weekend with Rafael, Hamlet or a nice Jewish boy
by Chris Knight, National Post
In what's being billed as the first major American motion picture
comedy to have an Armenian lead, My Uncle Rafael opens Friday at the
Cineplex Sheppard Grande in Toronto. The film stars Vahik Pirhamzei as
Rafael, an old-world font of wisdom who's sent to live with "a modern
American family" to boost the ratings for a reality TV show.
Meanwhile, Montreal-born actor Bruce Ramsay directs and stars in a new
adaptation of Hamlet as a kind of Godfather-esque 1940s film noir. The
film, which opens at Toronto's Projection Booth East on Nov. 2, strips
the play down to its Elsinore-set scenes, and features fellow Canadian
Lara Gilchrist in the role of Ophelia.
Finally, the Projection Booth Metro is screening a weeklong
Python-a-thon, with nightly showings of Monty Python and the Holy
Grail and Life of Brian.
From: A. Papazian
November 2, 2012 Friday
National Edition
Spend the weekend with Rafael, Hamlet or a nice Jewish boy
by Chris Knight, National Post
In what's being billed as the first major American motion picture
comedy to have an Armenian lead, My Uncle Rafael opens Friday at the
Cineplex Sheppard Grande in Toronto. The film stars Vahik Pirhamzei as
Rafael, an old-world font of wisdom who's sent to live with "a modern
American family" to boost the ratings for a reality TV show.
Meanwhile, Montreal-born actor Bruce Ramsay directs and stars in a new
adaptation of Hamlet as a kind of Godfather-esque 1940s film noir. The
film, which opens at Toronto's Projection Booth East on Nov. 2, strips
the play down to its Elsinore-set scenes, and features fellow Canadian
Lara Gilchrist in the role of Ophelia.
Finally, the Projection Booth Metro is screening a weeklong
Python-a-thon, with nightly showings of Monty Python and the Holy
Grail and Life of Brian.
From: A. Papazian