Windsor brings part of film festival to Detroit Film Theatre

Tom Long / Detroit News Film Critic

TheWindsor International Film Festival is rolling... but not in Windsor.

The Festival, now in its fifth year, is starting out in neighboring Michigan, with two Canadian films -- "Pontypool" and "C'est pas moi, je le jure!" -- screening at the Detroit Film Theatre this weekend. Straying even farther from home, the Festival also presented a screening of "The Necessities of Life" earlier this week at Michigan State University.

But the official festival, which will feature 25 films over three days at the Capitol Theatre in Windsor, kicks off with a gala celebration Nov. 12 at Caesars Windsor with a screening of "Cooking With Stella."

Among the higher-profile films being featured over the festival's three days are the much lauded immigrant tale "Amreeka," the biographical "Coco Before Chanel," the latest Pedro Almodòvar-Pènelope Cruz collaboration "Broken Embraces" and "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," starring Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore and Alan Arkin.

Windsor International Film Festival

Nov. 13-15

Capitol Theatre

121 University Ave., Windsor, Ontario

Tickets: $10, $5 students, Festival pass $40

Call (519) 965-6488 or visit www.windsorfilmfestival.ca

Gala

7 p.m. Nov. 12

Caesars Windsor, Augustus Ballroom

377 Riverside Drive, Windsor

Tickets: $35 includes reception and screening of "Cooking with Stella"; $15 for screening only

Film schedule

Nov. 11

7 p.m.: "Coopers' Camera" at University of Windsor's Lambton Hall

Nov. 13

Capitol Theatre & Arts Centre, 121 University Ave., Windsor, (519) 253-7729

6:45 p.m. "Coco Before Chanel"

6:45 p.m. "Police, Adjective"

7 p.m. "Passenger Side"

9 p.m. "A Touch of Grey"

9 p.m. "Broken Embraces"

9:15 p.m. "Un prophète (A Prophet)"

Nov. 14

Capitol Theatre & Arts Centre

11 a.m. Free panel discussion and NFB Workshop

2 p.m. "The Pool "

2 p.m. Documentary Shorts Program

2:30 p.m. "Bright Star"

4:15 p.m. "Amreeka"

5 p.m. "The Damned United"

6 p.m. "Love at the Twilight Motel"

6:15 p.m. "Mid-August Lunch"

7:15 p.m. Chris Rock's "Good Hair"

8 p.m. "Lorna's Silence"

8:30 p.m. "Take Five! The Return of Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn"

9:15 p.m. "J'ai tue ma mere (I Killed My Mother)"

10 p.m. "Taqwacare: the Birth of Punk Islam"

10:15 p.m. "Leslie, My Name Is Evil"

Nov. 15

Capitol Theatre & Arts Centre

2 p.m. "Departures'

2:15 p.m. "Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould"

2:15 p.m. "The Cove"

4:30 p.m. "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee"

4:45 p.m. "$9.99"

5 p.m. "Enlighten Up!"

7 p.m. "Hommes À louer (Men for Sale)"

7 p.m. "Cairo Time"

7 p.m. "The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band)"

8 p.m. "48 Hour Flickfest Finals"

9:15 p.m. "It Might Get Loud"

This weekend

At Detroit Film Theatre

5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit

Call (313) 833-4005

Tickets: $6.50 and $7.50

The Canadian Scene: 'Pontypool'

7 tonight

Not rated

Running time: 95 minutes

The Canadian Scene: "C'est pas moi, je le jure! (It's Not Me, I Swear!)"

7 p.m. Friday; 4 p.m. Saturday

Not rated

Running time: 105 minutes

tlong@detnews.com (313) 222-8879