Articles by Allan Tong

The Woody Allen Collection

PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2008

The latest Woody box is a very mixed bag of films chronicling the Soon Yi years, from 1993’s Bullets Over Broadway to 2006’s Scoop. There’s...

Young@Heart

Stephen Walker

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2008

It’s hard not to like this documentary despite its corny title. Young@Heart follows a chorus of New England seniors who sing rock songs to...

Waiting for Godot

Papermill Theatre, Toronto ON August 17

PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2008

Marrying Joy Division and Samuel Beckett’s landmark play seems like such a natural idea that it’s surprising someone hasn’t done it already...

What Remains Of Us

François Prévost and Hugo Latulippe

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2008

As the world watches the Beijing Olympics, the cultural genocide of Tibet continues. Since 1950, China has colonized this remote country, "...

Flight Of The Red Balloon

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2008

Taiwanese art house director Hou (Millennium Mambo, Café Lumière) cops a riff from the classic 1956 French short, The Red Balloon, about a...

The Killing Of John Lennon

Andrew Piddington

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2008

Twenty-eight years later, the assassination of John Lennon remains senseless and any filmmaker must offer fresh insight to deepen our under...

Bird

Clint Eastwood

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2008

Bird is Clint Eastwood’s labour-of-love biopic of legendary alto-saxophonist Charlie Parker. This upgrade 20 years after the film’s theatri...

Muhammad Ali: Made In Miami

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2008

This one-hour PBS doc shows how a young boxer named Cassius Clay blossomed into world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali under Angelo Dundee...