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Dear CRTC: More Margaret Atwood won’t save Canadian TV

03/19/2015 by the editor

By Jim Henshaw A decade of boneheaded moves by Canada’s broadcast regulator, the CRTC, were the original inspiration for my  blog. And over its life I’ve repeatedly weighed in on just how dim-witted or out of touch our CRTC Commissioners have been with their decisions. The last was a couple of months ago with the first […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Apple TV, Canada, Canadian culture, Canadian film, CRTC, Jean-Pierre Blais, Margaret Atwood, Netflix, online media, television, writing

He wrote Canadian film into being

02/22/2015 by the editor

By Jim Henshaw While writer muses come and go at their will, each of us is granted a mentor. Very early on I was lucky enough to be taken under the wing of the best screenwriter Canada has produced, John Hunter. I don’t remember how John and I first met. All I know is he […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, Canadian television, film, screen, television, writing

Alice Cooper, Canadian icon

09/21/2014 by the editor

By Frank Moher Did I miss the part where Alice Cooper became a Canadian? Because otherwise, HBO Canada’s new doc Super Duper Alice Cooper appears to mark some strange turning point in Canadian film funding. And believe you me, this is a Canadian film — at least if its list of financiers is anything to […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, Canadian Media Fund, Canadian television, Conservatives, Department of Canadian Heritage, film, HBO Canada, music, Ontario Media Development Corporation, rock, Rogers, Telefilm Canada, television, Toronto

The Video: Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Owning Mahowny”

02/03/2014 by the editor

The 2003 Canadian film Owning Mahowny, based on Gary Ross’s book No Limit, was made for pennies. It grossed pennies. But when Philip Seymour Hoffman wanted to play a role, wanted to make a film, he made it. Roger Ebert wrote of his performance: “Philip Seymour Hoffman, that fearless poet of implosion, plays the role […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, The Video Tagged With: addiction, Canadian film, film

Universal appeal, still no audience

06/26/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten When you score big financially, does anybody write you a congratulatory cheque? No? Well what’s wrong with you? Because if you’re a Canadian filmmaker and you write or direct the top-grossing Canadian film in any given year, you get a cool $20,000. Telefilm Canada says its Golden Box Office Award is intended […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, film, Quebec, Telefilm Canada

Canadian Screen Awards: More Short -pipes, please

03/04/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If it wasn’t for host Martin Short, the Canadian Screen Awards last night would have been a real dud. This first year of the awards, aired on CBC, was partly a grand experiment. The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television combined the bereft-of-an-audience Genies and Geminis — separate awards for film and […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, Canadian film, Canadian Screen Awards, Canadian television, entertainment, film, Martin Short, television

Son of “Midnight’s Children”

11/05/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Mark Leiren-Young When I walk into the downtown Toronto hotel room to meet Salman Rushdie, I can’t help scoping the halls for bodyguards. Even though he’s no longer in hiding, there’s still a three million dollar bounty on the writer’s head and he’s still the most buzzed about celebrity at the 2012 Toronto International […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, Leiren-Young Tagged With: books, Canada, Canadian film, Deepa Mehta, film, Salman Rushdie, Toronto International Film Festival, writing

Let the multiplexes die

01/15/2007 by backofthebook.ca

Film distribution in Canada is in trouble, at least if you believe the Globe. Seems Canada is one of the top pirating countries in the world. Hollywood execs are threatening to delay — or even halt — distribution of their films here. So there’s a chance that future hits like The Hills Have Eyes 2 […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canadian film, film, piracy

Morgan Freeman saves the Canadian film industry

12/13/2006 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher If Morgan Freeman wasn’t the coolest guy in Hollywood already, he certainly is now. This weekend, Freeman’s production company, Revelations Entertainment, joins with computer chip manufacturer Intel to make his latest movie, 10 Items or Less, available online for download. That’s the same 10 Items or Less that premiered in movie theatres […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canadian film, film, online media, Pirate Bay

The Duke of Vancouver

10/25/2006 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Daryl Duke, the Vancouver-born TV director and producer who died last Saturday, was the real deal. In an industry full off hypesters, especially in B.C., where there are 20 would-be producers for every dollar of financing available, Duke had sufficient credits that he didn’t need to tell you all about them: you […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: British Columbia, Canadian film, Canadian television, CBC, film, television, Vancouver

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

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Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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