Friday November 29 to Thursday December 5, 2013

It’s time someone set the record straight. When actor/director Ben Affleck made Argo last year, lauding the role of CIA operative Tony Mendez in surreptitiously extracting six U.S. diplomats at the height of Iran hostage crisis of 1979-80, it rightly put some noses out of joint north of the border.

Mischievous octogenarian Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville in heavy makeup and prosthetics) and his 8-year-old grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) embark on a debauched cross-country road trip in this geriatric Jackass spin-off from Paramount Pictures and MTV Films. Upon learning that his wife of 46 years has died, horny granddad Irving Zisman is eager to get out and sow his geriatric oats.

Young love is a familiar movie subject, but "Blue Is the Warmest Color" is something rare. It captures the urgency and ease of first love, its romanticism, its physicality, its desperation, its ecstasy, its complete unbounded giving - and something else, too: the way the memory of first love can linger into later life, the poignancy of that, and the pain.

Montreal would get big points from Danish architect Jan Gehl, whose name is missing from the title of countryman Andreas M. Dalsgaard’s thought-provoking documentary The Human Scale, but whose ideas drive the film. Like many movies looking at the effects of globalization on the human condition Dalsgaard looks at the ways today’s cities are destroying our quality of life.