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Adoration, Heaven on Earth Among Canada's Top Ten Films of the Year

Posted by Tim / December 16, 2008

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Canada's top ten films of 2008 were announced today by the Toronto International Film Festival Group. Among those selected were a number directed by Toronto-based talent including Adoration by Atom Egoyan, Heaven on Earth by Deepa Metha and Pontypool by Bruce McDonald.

Sadly I've only seen one of these films so far (Heaven on Earth - comments here) but I'm looking forward to catching some of the others when all the films screen in Toronto during the first week of February.

A full list of the top ten features and shorts are listed on the Top Ten web site.

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R.LaRonde / December 16, 2008 at 10:46 pm

You know, I was going to call bullshit on the seemingly automatic inclusion of Atom Egoyan's film, but then I was just happy the didn't include the truly ludicrous Passchendale

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