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Tree of Life, Terrence Malick’s masterpiece
The Tree of Life is totally, totally, amazing. And I liked it, too. (Sometimes we are impressed, but remain unmoved. Or amused by something that is only a clever trifle.) But Terrence Malick’s newest...
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Rocker Kim Bingham headlines legendary Cleopatra’s for Sin City Halloween...
Montreal pop-rocker Kim Bingham has performed countless gigs touring with legendary Montreal ska band Me, Mom & Morgentaler, David Usher, Bran Van 3000 and Nelly Furtado. But, Kim says, “When I...
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Montreal director going to Cannes with her first feature
Like Xavier Dolan, Montrealer Chloé Robichaud is taking her first feature to the Cannes Film Festival. Her film Sarah préfère la course was named as part of the fest’s Un certain regard section,...
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Another Quebec film going to Cannes: Sébastien Pilote’s Le démantèlement
Chloé Robichaud’s Sarah préfère la course won’t be the only Quebec film at Cannes this year. Sébastien Pilote’s Le démantèlement will have its world premiere as part of La semaine de la critique, one...
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Xavier Dolan’s Tom à la ferme to premiere at Venice Film Festival
Xavier Dolan has chosen Venice over Cannes to premiere his new film, Tom à la ferme, and has been rewarded with a spot in official competition. A Quebec film hasn’t vied for the Venice International...
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The Story So Far: Woman savagely beaten to death downtown, Riviera jewel...
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The Story So Far: Canadians hung up on their smartphones, Cannes heist bigger...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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