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Film-comedy powerhouse Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen were the main attraction at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival last weekend, performing a one-time-only stand-up comedy show as research for their upcoming film about comics. At a press conference, Rogen deadpanned that even though it had been a while since he’d performed ...
BY Jason Anderson
Canuck team gives old-school horror an affectionate embrace
BY Adam Nayman
There’s not enough space here to do justice to the singularly tactile cinema of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976), but a quick comparison between La Terra Trema (1948) and White Nights (1957) — both of...
Thompson doc sorts through the gonzo to locate the man on the page
For the cinephiles who came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, the late French director Jean Eustache was a towering figure to stand with his countrymen Godard and Rivette. To younger filmgoers he is merely a rumour. None of the 11 films he produced between ...
Director Jonathan Levine vividly recreates the summer of ’94 with dope, beats and dope beats
The Venice International Film Festival announces that Wim Wenders —?fresh off a critical pasting at Cannes for his reportedly pretentious and incoherent new film The Palermo Shooting — will chair their main jury. Directors with designs on competition ...
If Savage Grace’s Aristocrats were spoiled any more rotten you’d get botulism
Arrangement of Japanese classics looks beyond the canon
Pixar’s newest effort, WALL-E (see review June 27 at eyeweekly.com), concerns a sad-eyed droid left alone to tidy up the Earth after human beings have fled to outer space.