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FILM

Let Them Eat Cake

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Reviewing the recipe for Ma Part du Gateau from Cinemania 2011

by Andrea Elalouf
30.11.2011

With the recent European economic crisis taking a sudden spin for the worse (France being no exception), much of the recently concluded Cinemania Festival’s politically and socially minded programming has struck as particularly relevant, groundbreaking and…clairvoyant?

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Works for Work’s Sake

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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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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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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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It’s Got Groove, it’s Got Meaning

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Independent filmmakers and multi-disciplinary artists join forces at the irreverent Mascara & Popcorn Festival

by Laura Freitag
08.07.2011

While most Montréal summer festivals have people emerging from their dwellings in delight of the sweltering heat, this new celebration of all-things-underground will have you venturing back indoors for a healthy dose of edgy refuge. The Mascara & Popcorn  Festival toes the line between guilty pleasures and bold fetishes, boasting a lineup which includes everything [...]

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FILM

The Ghosts & Mr. Ed

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Latin American Cinema Fest, Cinema du Parc

by James Gartler
22.04.2011

Montreal’s Latin American Cinema Festival is in full swing at Cinema du Parc. Of the three dozen or so features screened, none will leave you quite as tickled, confused and even inspired as Finisterrae …

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FILM

Creativity Trumps Nightlife

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Justin Agustin, Creativity Unltd.

by Brenda Raftlova
13.04.2011

Justin Agustin goes for the gangsta look, shaved black hair, bulging muscular arms, floppy t-shirt and low-slung jeans. Don’t let the look deceive. At 25, Agustin has given up a once-hectic nightlife for work. Founder and owner of Creativity Unltd., he runs one of the leading hip-hop music video production teams in Montreal.

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FILM

Right AND Honest Answers

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Professor Norman Cornett, NFB Documentary

by Martyn Bryant
11.03.2011

Dr. Norman Cornett’s creation of a “theatre of learning” as a Religious Studies Professor at McGill University and his subsequent dismissal in 2007 (to this day he has never received a letter from McGill outlining the reasons for this) is the subject of a 2009 National Film Board documentary by the distinguished and inspirational filmmaker [...]

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BOOKS

Montreal Main – the Film, and Now the Book

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Montreal Main, by Thomas Waugh & Jason Garrison, Arsenal Pulp Press

by Matthew Surridge
02.03.2011

In 1974, a Montreal filmmaking collective created an independent film called Montreal Main, which follows a photographer, Frankie, as he meets and is drawn to a twelve-year-old boy named Johnny, thus straining Frankie’s relationship with his best friend, the manic Bozo.

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And Everything In Between

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Image+Nation, Concordia Hall Theatre

by James Gartler
05.11.2010

Image+Nation stands apart from our other local film festivals because it affords movie-goers the opportunity to experience characters whose sexual identities fall somewhere between 1 and 6 on the Kinsey scale. The quality of said films, however, can also run the gamut from terrific to terrible. Keeping an open mind, then, let’s take a gander [...]

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(60) Second To None

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M60, Cinema du Parc & La Sala Rossa

by Vanessa Bonneau
04.10.2010

On a very cold mid-winter night in 2008, a group of friends gathered on the top of Mont-Royal to view a lunar eclipse. By the time they parted ways, after drinks and snacks at La Sala Rossa, they had concocted a plan to start a film festival.

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Cold Places And Warm Hearts

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Bjarnfredarson, Beloved Berlin Wall, Focus on World Cinema

by Elizabeth Johnston
02.09.2010

Iceland may be a cold place, but it’s got a warm heart, if Ragnar Bragason’s latest film, Bjarnfredarson, is anything to go by. The film, at the Montreal World Film Festival, is based on a popular Icelandic television series about three misfits whose only commonality is a criminal past.

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Free Love, Steel Cobwebs And Stakes

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Documentaries of the World, Montreal Film Festival

by Elizabeth Johnston
01.09.2010

What do these things have in common: one of the last remaining matriarchal societies; an architect who has shaped a brave new world; and an exploration of the misunderstood despot, Vlad the Impaler? Answer? How our world is built and destroyed. Showing at the Montreal World Film Festival are these three wildly different documentaries – [...]

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Of Faded Memories And Sharp Detail

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Hamseyeh, First Films World Competition

by Elizabeth Johnston
31.08.2010

Women often bear the burden of childrearing and community-building while men absent themselves physically or emotionally. In Hamseyeh (The Neighbor), this universal phenomenon, and much more, is explored from the perspective of Iranian immigrants in Vancouver.

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Philosophy With An Airy Touch

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Le Stelle Inquiete, World Film Festival

by Elizabeth Johnston
27.08.2010

Emanuela Piovano’s Le Stelle Inquiete is an unconventional romance, rich with ideas and imagery. Based on the life of French philosopher Simone Weil, it focuses on an experience of hers two years before she died at the age of 34. Entirely devoted to her passionate pursuit of knowledge, affairs of the heart hold no interest [...]

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