Hey folks, Harry here with the latest from Toronto is Tony Kaye's LAKE OF FIRE, a documentary that sounds extremely good. Here ya go...

AIC Staff,

I have been an avid attendee of the Toronto Film Festival for almost 10 years and I believe I have just watched one of the best films I have ever seen. This past evening I had the opportunity to watch one of the more anticipated documentaries in this years program -- Tony Kaye's "Lake of Fire". For over the past 15 years Kaye has been shooting this film, a documentary that presents both sides of the abortion debate in America, and all of us are better off for it. This film is an intense two and a half hour plus experience that challenges you to look at both sides of the abortion argument and, ultimately, question your thoughts and opinions to date. It would be easy to use a cliche and say everybody needs to see this film etc.... (because they should...) but this film demands a lot from the viewer with heavy emotional scenes, rants from both the pro-choice and pro-life sides and intense graphic images and should not be forced on anyone who is not prepared for it. Kaye leads us by the hand through years of war and argument with leaders and professors from fundamentalist to bio-ethics and instead of taking us safely to the other side, he drops us off in the large grey area of the debate to fend for ourselves. During the Q&A after the film Kaye was asked if his own thoughts had changed while making the film. Kaye admitted that he went back and forth depending on who he was talking to but after this time he was still confused about where he stood. Most of us left the theatre looking like we had been hit by a sledgehammer. People will talk about this film for a long time. It doesn't matter if Lake of Fire wins awards, Oscars whatever, Kaye has produced a definite piece of art for this decade. If you live in Toronto the movie screens again this Monday at 9am (pity that crowd) and Saturday at 4:30pm.

Derek A.