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FNC: Couple copes oddly with grief in Israeli black comedy One Week and a Day

Ping-Pong and air guitar are played, and much pot is smoked in Asaph Polonsky’s debut feature about a couple mourning the death of their teenage son. Oh yeah, it’s a black comedy. One Week and a Day...

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Kevin Tierney: The success of Xavier Dolan Inc. is to be admired

Kevin Tierney is a Montreal filmmaker, the former head of the board of directors of the Cinémathèque québécoise and a recipient of a Victor Goldbloom award for distinguished community service. His new...

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Dolan defies critics with Cannes prize-winning film

TORONTO – I didn’t get a chance to ask Xavier Dolan my first question before he asked me one. Upon hearing that I had seen and very much enjoyed his sixth film Juste la fin du monde (It’s Only the End...

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Doug Camilli: Bodyguard couldn't push Kanye West's buttons

Kanye West is pretty tough to work for, a former bodyguard tells the Sun. Steve Stanulis, formerly a New York City policeman, lasted two weeks, which is apparently longer than many of Kanye’s guards...

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Movie review: Vincent Lindon is a man without means in La loi du marché

La loi du marché (The Measure of a Man) ✮✮✮1/2 Starring: Vincent Lindon Directed by: Stéphane Brizé Running time: 93 minutes Times are tough for Thierry. The 51-year-old has been unemployed for 15...

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Dolan credits 'relentless work' for his Palme d'Or chance at Cannes

It should probably come as no great shock that Montreal director Xavier Dolan’s latest film, Juste la fin du monde (It’s Only the End of the World), will be presented in Official Competition at the...

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Xavier Dolan's Juste la fin du monde in official competition at Cannes 2016

Quebec director Xavier Dolan is officially in the race to win a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Juste la fin du monde. It’s the second time a movie by Dolan has been selected for...

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Movie review: László Nemes's Son of Saul plunges us into Holocaust

Son of Saul ✮✮✮✮1/2 Starring: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn Directed by: László Nemes Running time: 107 minutes You may have seen movies on the Holocaust, but you have never seen one like...

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László Nemes takes a close-up view to bring Holocaust home in Son of Saul

How do you say something new about the Holocaust? More to the point, how do you make a movie that says something new about the Holocaust? There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of movies on the topic,...

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Xavier Dolan makes it on to Forbes 30-under-30 Hollywood list

Forbes magazine has released its list of young movers and shakers in Hollywood and the entertainment world, and Quebec’s whiz-kid director is on it. The American publication puts Dolan, who is 22, in...

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Season 7 of Doc Martin: Just what the TV doctors ordered

The wait is over: Doc Martin returns to the tube. After a seemingly interminable period – over two years – Season 7 of the British dramedy finally surfaces Wednesday at 9 p.m. on VisionTV. And this...

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FNC opens with Le tout nouveau testament's divine comedy

“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.” — Woody Allen Jaco Van Dormael blames Woody Allen for his delightfully impudent new movie Le tout nouveau testament, which premièred as part of Cannes’...

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Denis Villeneuve's Sicario in competition at Cannes

Sicario, starring Benicio del Toro, Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin, will screen in the competition section of the festival, which runs May 13 to 24. #Cannes2015 SICARIO by Denis VILLENEUVE #Competition —...

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Xavier Dolan wins jury prize at Cannes

It’s not the Palme d’Or, but it’s close. Xavier Dolan’s film Mommy won the Prix du Jury at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, sharing it ex aequo with veteran French director Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to...

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Falardeau, Wenders films to open/close Festival du nouveau cinéma

  Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) scores not one but two coups with the announcement of its opening and closing films. Fresh off its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of...

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Another Quebec director at Cannes: Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre with Jutra

Add another Quebec director to the list of those headed to Cannes. Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre’s animated documentary short, Jutra, will be part of the Director’s Fortnight, which runs May 15-25. Her...

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Quebec film funder SODEC wants more money for local film

SODEC president Francois Macerola, in June, 2010. (Marie-France Coallier / THE GAZETTE) The long-awaited report from Quebec film funder SODEC on the “crisis” in Quebec film was officially released...

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RIDM 2013: Marcel Ophuls, 86, misses his plane, arrives a day late

Marcel Ophuls missed his plane. So he may be a bit jet-lagged tonight at the kick-off of his career retrospective at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal. That’s if he makes it at...

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Cinemania: Asghar Farhadi’s Le passé to open festival

Asghar Farhadi’s Le passé (The Past) will open Cinemania on Nov. 7, and the festival will close on Nov. 17 with Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central. Both films premiered at Cannes earlier this year, Le...

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TIFF 2013: Dolan’s Tom à la ferme marks new direction

Xavier Dolan wanted to set the record straight. He wasn’t “not happy” that his third film, Laurence Anyways was going to Cannes (as per the lede, or opening line, of my article from April, 2012);...

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