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A fanciful yet deeply felt homage to his hometown, My Winnipeg (see On Screen page 13) may be both Guy Maddin’s most personal project and his film with the broadest appeal. While non-Winnipeggers might have trouble fully connecting with the anguish Maddin expresses over such local tragedies as the end of the Jets, the ...
BY Adam Nayman
Nargis Ahmad isn’t an actress, and she’ll tell you so herself: “I have bigger fishes to fry,” she says over the phone from Ottawa, where she’s employed as a case coordinator for Ontario Works.
BY Kieran Grant
With their acclaimed 2005 documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, Toronto filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen hammered a cultural study out of heavy metal, using Dunn’s lifelong devotion to ...
Having copped awards on both coasts for her work in Pamela Gien’s one-woman show The Syringa Tree, Caroline Cave merits consideration as one of Canada’s leading stage performers. After her ...
Having dropped all that weight he gained in Super Size Me, the New York documentary filmmaker was in fighting shape to take on his biggest challenge yet: finding the architect of the 9/11 attacks. To make Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? Spurlock ...
The director of Frownland — a special-prize winner at this year's South by Southwest film festival — discusses the fine art of discomfort
Long one of the country’s most underappreciated directors, John Paizs enjoys a bit of attention when the Royal Cinema (608 College) hosts a mini-retrospective on April 10, co-presented by indie-music festival Over the Top.
David Schwimmer may forever be known as Ross, but not for lack of trying. After cutting his teeth directing episodes of his money-maker, Friends, he has churned out the British comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run (see review page 23), starring Shaun of the Dead/Hot ...
Perhaps the most delicate of Gus Van Sant’s recent run of independent and highly idiosyncratic films, Paranoid Park (see review page 20) is a story of teens, guilt and skateboarding set in the director’s long-time home of Portland. With its non-linear ...
The maker of indelible music videos (and one-time Kanye West percussionist) showed his long-form filmmaking chops four years ago with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. His new film Be Kind Rewind (see review page 22) showcases Gondry’s twin ...