FILM

The Science of Food a Cold Comfort

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Wetzel’s El Bulli: Cooking in Progress kills the culinary magic but espouses interesting philosophies on creativity

by Crystal Chan
05.08.2011

Men in long white coats conduct experiment after experiment in a fluorescent-lit room of burners, beakers, and scales. Every result is painstakingly recorded; every finding is photo-documented. Must be a film on scientific research, right?

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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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Diary Of A Sap, Day 1

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Daniel Romano, Owen Pallett, and Shark Attack blow audiences out of the water at SappyFest Six

by Megan Stewart
03.08.2011

We arrive in Sackville, New Brunswick, to sunshine and warnings of shark attacks. First we see it on the sign of the community rink: “Sappy Fest! Shark Attack!” If we still had doubts, they were obliterated upon arrival at the main stage tent. Emblazoned across its front, in large black letters: “SAPPY FEST! SHARK ATTACK!” [...]

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Crowd Controlled

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Audience doesn’t do any favours for Weird Al’s mixed-bag musical comedy show Amp’d, at Just For Laughs

by Daniel Salama
03.08.2011

Last year’s Amp’d show, a collection of musical comedy, was widely praised as one of the better shows at Just For Laughs. It’s unlikely this year’s show, at Club Soda (July 28), will leave the festival with a similar legacy. The revue, hosted by the legendary Weird Al Yankovic, was hobbled by a palpable lack [...]

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Fashion, Smacked on the Pavement

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The Fashion and Design Festival takes haute couture to the city streets

by Todd Kingston Plummer
03.08.2011

It’s street style like you’ve always known it, and like you’ve never seen it before. The annual Montreal Fashion & Design Festival is setting up shop on Avenue McGill College this week, with a jam-packed roster of shows and spectacles showing off the city’s most promising design talents.

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Freak le Screen

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The Fantasia film festival rolls into its final week on a wild wave of mutilation

by James Gartler
03.08.2011

There’s only week left to go before the 15th edition of Fantasia wraps up, but take heart moviegoers: it’s been an interesting ride so far, hasn’t it? Indeed, this year’s festival has brought its fair share of both pleasure and pain to audiences, but you really can’t expect anything less than the freaky and fantastical [...]

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“Little Hell” is a Little Musical Heaven

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An interview with City and Colour’s Dallas Green at this year’s edition of the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival

by Catherine Averback
03.08.2011

Debuting at number one on the Canadian music charts is no small feat, but Little Hell, the newest release from Toronto-based, initially acoustic act City and Colour, renders this accomplishment as less of a surprise. Chronicling the ups and downs of life and relationships over several beautifully haunting tracks – newly characterized by a much [...]

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On With the Show

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Let’s get behind The Next Wave Festival of New Musicals.

by Anna Fuerstenberg
03.08.2011

You need to get behind this festival. I know we are really in burn out as Montreal celebrates festival after festival. This one however is really unique and worth the effort. The Next Wave is bilingual and features an exciting array of musicals, workshops, panels and GREAT shows. I used to be a snob about [...]

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Situation (comedy) critical?

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A frank and feisty interview with Just For Laughs’ State of the Industry host Andy Kindler

by Jeremy Moses
02.08.2011

It’s become a tradition at the Just For Laughs Festival for comedian Andy Kindler to give his annual State of the Industry Address. Known for being straightforward and scathing when he feels appropriate, Kindler really never holds back his opinions. Not surprisingly, in his sit-down interview with Rover Arts, he didn’t hold back again about [...]

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Freakin’ Time to Say Goodbye

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Exiting the Zoo with DeAnne Smith's About Freakin' Time

by Meaghan Thurston
02.08.2011

It’s with a sense of sadness and relief that I must say goodbye to yet another festival. The wild and adventurous Zoofest has come to a close. Festival season in Montreal makes me feel like a two year old who has spent a month and half at the carnival, subsiding solely on cotton candy.

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Homegrown Hilarity

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REVIEW: Canadian stand-ups throw down for the Irwin Barker Homegrown Comic award at Just For Laughs

by James Gartler
01.08.2011

You have to love that a festival as big as Just For Laughs will still make a point of showcasing up-and-coming Canadian talent. There may have been only one recipient of the Irwin Barker Homegrown Comic award on Friday night, July 29, but each of the nine performers who took to the stage brought something [...]

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A Day for all Tastes

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Day Two of Osheaga lays out a festival feast for music connoisseurs

by Catherine Averback
01.08.2011

If Eminem’s mind blowing performance on Friday, July 29, wasn’t enough to demonstrate the diversity of the expanding Osheaga lineup, then the range of acts on Saturday, July 30, certainly was. It’s Day Two, festivalgoers are rested (or not) and at it again, this time for a whopping 35 acts in 10 hours of swaying, [...]

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To Each Their Groove

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Secret Maker soars in a night with something for everyone at Montreal Electronic Groove (MEG)

by Shawn Katz
31.07.2011

The key word for the MEG (Montreal Electronic Groove) festival is simple: party. It’s the “groove” part of that equation, and at that it does its job fairly well – just as long as you know which night and venue are the ones to float your (MEG) Boat… ahem, so to speak…

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Glitter Girls

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No shortage of sparkly things at Divers/Cité’s 12th annual Boulevard des Rêves

by Catherine Averback
31.07.2011

Past the miniature red carpet that serves as an entrance, people walk down Berri to the Loto-Québec stage in packs, sporting green and pink donation bracelets. Others come alone, perfectly comfortable in solitude, dancing their way over to the front of a forming crowd, to the asphalt-trembling beats of DJ Stéfane Lippé .

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Screams, Sweat and Shady

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Day One at Osheaga: Eminem makes an irrefutable case for greatness at landmark appearance

by Catherine Averback
31.07.2011

Leaving Parc Jean-Drapeau late Friday night (July 29), it was clear that something big had just happened — something people will be talking about for a long time kind of big.

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