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...movie, already a hit at the Toronto Film Festival, honors and expands the old formula. The townsfolk are preparing for the Giant Vegetable Competition held each year by Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter). To allay the villagers' fears that their supersize tomatoes and zucchini may be ravaged by rabbits, Wallace invents a gizmo that captures the critters without hurting them--much to the disapproval of Lady T.'s slimy suitor, Victor Quartermaine (a perfectly pompous Ralph Fiennes), who would rather blast the bunnies to bits. Soon the locals have a larger, more vicious threat: the mysterious, vegemaniacal Were-Rabbit...
...western reposes in the Boot Hill of movie genres, and the acquisition of the West can be seen as a century-long act of aggression, serious films are more likely to question gun love than to celebrate it. In Aric Avelino's American Gun, a film shown at the Toronto Film Festival last week, the gun is seen as a virtual urban plague that ends young lives, sunders families and turns schools into maximum-security prisons. Andrew Niccol's Lord of War imagines that a Ukrainian-American named Yuri (Nicolas Cage) could rise through the arms-dealing underworld, Scarface-style...
Ignatieff will continue to teach at Harvard through the fall semester, according to KSG communications director Melodie Jackson. Come January, he will relocate to Toronto to teach an undergraduate political science course on human rights, advise graduate students, and deliver a series of public lectures, according to a University of Toronto press release. The release said he will also serve as a fellow at the Munk Centre for International Studies...
After next year, however, Ignatieff’s intentions are unclear. The University of Toronto appoints visiting professors for a period of one year, with the option of renewal...
Prior to coming to Harvard, Ignatieff was a documentary film writer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After graduating from the University of Toronto, he enrolled at Harvard and completed a Ph.D. program in history...