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“This,” she says, tugging at the ensemble, “is a dress that, to me, looks like Florida threw up on it.”

– James Gartler in History Made at the Majestic

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Michael the Menace

by Eric Hamovitch

Comment

Can't wait to read it after this review...(why haven't i already??)

– comment by Beverly Ackerman

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FESTIVAL CITY

Everyone’s a Winner

Even those who don’t get picked are at least guaranteed a good time at the newly expanded, now open to the public, and free-to-attend Montreal Fringe Festival Lottery

by Jamie O'Meara
13.11.2011

You can’t win if you don’t play, and so it is with the St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival, which early this week holds its annual Fringe Lottery. The playing is on the part of the 150-or-so theatre, dance, comedy, music and other assorted performance arts companies who have thrown their names into the hat, hoping to [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

French Film Mania

Cinephiles and audiences of all kinds are sure to be delighted with the eclectic yet politically-minded programme of films at this year's Cinemania

by Andrea Elalouf
07.11.2011

With the initial goal of spreading the gospel of French cinema to Montreal’s Anglophone community, the Cinemania film festival has, since its inception in 1995, helped popularize France’s film industry in our fair city and beyond – countering the common belief that the French seventh art belongs only in dusty repertoire theatres.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Doing the do

The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma continues to supply adventurous film fans with the map to undiscovered riches

by Melora Koepke
14.10.2011

The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) turns 40 this year, and it’s almost definitely the city’s most grown-up film festival – a designation festival director Claude Chamberlan will likely hate. He called the fest “petit-moyen” in a recent interview with T’Cha Dunlevy in The Gazette, but we beg to differ. The fest may not be [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Works for Work’s Sake

INTERVIEW: Filmmaker Wim Wenders on his masterful new 3D dance documentary Pina, and the enduring beauty of its unlikely subject and setting

by Melora Koepke
12.10.2011

“Audiences want truth as opposed to reality” – Wim Wenders on life, work and the meaning of both. Wim Wenders’ Pina is as simple, artful and perfect as a dance movie can be – and watching it with 3D glasses on the big screen, it’s tempting to think that this is exactly why Stereoscopic 3D [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Who Loves the Sun?

Sabrina Barilà captures the spirit of the Montreal style with her Spring/Summer 2012 collection

by Oksana Cueva
29.09.2011

As we bask in this glorious Indian summer, our thoughts may still be drifting towards the beach, hazy days and sunny styles. Let us bring you back to the Spring/Summer 2012 runway collections at the 21st Edition of Montreal Fashion Week, from earlier in the month. One of the highlights of this international fashion showcase [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Les Derniers Assassins n’ont pas fait leurs dernières victimes

Jean Leloup and the Last Assassins, Pop Montreal

by Isaline Cartier
27.09.2011

Soir d’équinoxe au Rialto, Jean Leloup and the Last Assassins étaient attendus de pied ferme par une demi-foule pour le lancement de leur premier album.

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FESTIVAL CITY

From Fiddlers on the Roof to Puppeteers in the Basement

The Season: A Socalled Musical finds multi-talented Mile End madman Josh Dolgin charging into uncharted creative territory at Pop Montreal

by Megan Stewart
25.09.2011

In my Mile End apartment building, which is sinking into the ground and falling apart at the seams, I often hear strange and wonderful sounds coming from the basement. Sometimes it’s klezmer music being played on a melodica, sometimes there’s a string quartet. A few months ago, there was a barrage of puppets knocking down [...]

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