A still-frame image from Life Off Grid, Jonathan Taggart’s provocative documentary explores the lifestyles of Canadian renegades who have created a kind of sustainability not dependent on society’s electrical or natural-gas infrastructures.
They're more can-do than they are CANDU. Jonathan Taggart's provocative documentary explores the lifestyles of Canadian renegades who have created a kind of sustainability not dependent on society's electrical or natural-gas infrastructures. (Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, March 25-31, G)
Maple-blooded filmmakers are celebrated with an annual cinematic happening, in which a festival that begins with How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town (which is a comedy, not an instruction manual) ends with a bang (the Toronto premiere of Across the Line, a racially charged drama set in a Nova Scotia high school). (Royal Cinema, March 30-April 2; canfilmfest.ca)
Local resident Piers Hemmingsen, a Fab Four fanatic who recently authored The Beatles in Canada: The Origins of Beatlemania, hosts a screening of Richard Lester's How I Won the War (1967), a darkly comedic response to the glorification of the Second World War and a film that featured John Lennon as infantry soldier named Musketeer Gripweed. Imagine that. (March 31, Revue Cinema, PG)