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Fashion Week Frenzy

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Summer lives on during the 21st edition of Montreal Fashion Week

by Oksana Cueva
06.09.2011

Historic streets, cobblestones and horse chariots lend their starlight to high fashion during this week’s 21st edition of Montreal Fashion Week (MFW), taking place in the heart of Old Montreal at le Marché Bonsecours. From September 6th to 9th, daring designers of local, national and international origin will unveil their Spring-Summer 2012 collections – highlighting [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Playing Hard to Get

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Why does the 35-year-old MWFF still struggle with technical difficulties and bad publicity?

by Mike Lake
03.09.2011

The 35th Montreal World Film Festival has come and gone, and what to make of it all? The festival has long been considered an underdog—the lame twin to TIFF’s robust quarterback, if you will—but after this year, my alternate metaphor casts the MWFF as the snobby Siamese cat to TIFF’s affable beagle pup. But there’s [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

I Want One, Too

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Famed teenage pregnancy pact remains an incomprehensible mystery in MWFF's 17 Filles

by Mike Lake
30.08.2011

In May of 2008, a group of high school girls from Gloucester, Massachusetts formed a pact: they would all get pregnant and help each other raise the babies. This strange story of young female friendship—and naiveté—is the subject of the first feature film from sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Sickening, but maybe that’s the point

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Happy Slapping makes its dizzying world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival

by Matthew Kassel
29.08.2011

Happy Slapping, which premiered last week at Montreal’s World Film Festival, is a nauseating film.  Maybe I’m too sensitive, but as I walked out of the theatre after seeing it, I felt green, like I had just been on a turbulent boat ride.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Of Butterfly Kisses and Standing Ovations

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Un Baiser Papillon and Hasta La Vista celebrate life and love at the Montreal World Film Festival

by Andrea Elalouf
26.08.2011

The Festival des Films du Monde is often criticized for its overwhelming programming, at times susceptible to causing a slight headache while looking at the catalogue. What to choose? But with the 35th edition well underway, many excellent films have come out of the woodwork, making the festival as exciting and cutting edge as ever.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Wherefore Art Thou, Romeos?

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Romeos' coming-of-age story gives a comforting perspective on a challenging subject

by Mike Lake
25.08.2011

“You’ll get the gay crowd, but you won’t get the indie kids,” said the man behind me on his phone. Romeos, the story of a young transgendered man in Cologne, and the first feature film from director Sabine Bernardi, was about to make its North American premiere at Montreal’s World Film Festival.

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FESTIVAL CITY

A Cinematic World Tour

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Rover's picks for the Montreal World Film Festival

by Mike Lake
18.08.2011

The Montreal World Film Festival, like the little engine that could, kicks off its 35th year with 383 films from 70 countries. While the MWFF will always exist in the shadow of its bigger brother, the Toronto International Film Festival, organizer and founder Serge Losique prides himself on a more varied selection of films from [...]

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High Pressure Hip-Hop

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Masta Ace heats up Foufounes on the final night of Under Pressure

by Catherine Averback
17.08.2011

Les Foufounes Électriques: overflowing with personality, history, and just the right level of grime to make a place cool; the perfect venue for the Under Pressure International Graffiti Fest’s final punch for 2011 this past Sunday night.

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EVENTS

Born This Gay

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Sparkling community spirit steals the spotlight from the corporations at this year's Pride Parade

by Todd Kingston Plummer
16.08.2011

The Pride celebrations came to a close on Sunday with the Pride Parade, a four-hour-long spectacle spanning the downtown core and concluding in the Village. Community groups and big-business sponsors alike marched through the streets, and the tension between Pride’s grassroots commitments and corporate ties was palpable.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Create ‘n Skate

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Day One of the Under Pressure Graffiti Convention

by Catherine Averback
14.08.2011

Despite the fact that Under Pressure’s 2011 activities officially kick off at 11 am Saturday, by noon, tents are still being set up on Ste. Catherine East between Ste. Dominique and Hotel de Ville for the Montreal hip-hop culture event of the year. It’s early, but the artists are out on the streets, starting new [...]

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Spray-time Playtime

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The Under Pressure International Graffiti Convention paints the town

by Catherine Averback
13.08.2011

If your head is spinning and your vision is filled with rainbows during the next few days, don’t be alarmed. This weekend, while the LGTB community shows their pride with a spectacular parade, another community will be spraying their colours across our city’s walls. It’s time for the sixteenth annual edition of the Under Pressure [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Quebec Fashion Shines Through the Ages

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Festival Mode & Design highlights the best of la belle province through timeless and avant-garde fashion

by Andrea Elalouf
08.08.2011

It’s Friday evening and the sweltering heat has not stopped Montreal’s fashionistas from hitting the pavement in their strappy sandals and flowy summer dresses. Hundreds of people are crowding the blocked off Sainte Catherine with shopping bags in hand; dozens of allied stores such as Guess and Forever XXI are offering special discounts for the [...]

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The People’s Runway

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Jean Paul Gaultier's Fall 2011 collection flutters past our fingertips at the Festival Mode & Design

by Todd Kingston Plummer
06.08.2011

At Wednesday night’s Jean Paul Gaultier runway show, the throngs of pedestrian spectators were proof of just how fun fashion can be. There were no nasty PR girls with austere guest lists, there was no reserved seating, no front-row celebutantes. The show was all about the people on the streets, the beautiful clothes, and just [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Diary of a Sap, Day Two

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SappyFest unearths the hidden gems of folk, funk and soul

by Megan Stewart
05.08.2011

Sappy Saturday begins with the Bridge Street Farmer’s Market. Espresso, Sappy sandwiches, apple fritters and fresh green beans. There is a bit of rain, but also a big tent to keep us dry, and love and music to keep us warm. Love is a recurring theme of Sappy Saturday.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Fighting the Noble Fight

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Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins thrills audiences at the Fantasia Film Fest

by Thomas Bauer
04.08.2011

If you could kill Caligula before he took power and started terrorizing his subjects, and you knew you’d be preventing a nightmare of horror from overtaking the good citizens of the kingdom, would you do it? What value system would you stake your life on to effect this action?

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