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He wrote Canadian film into being

02/22/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

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

Radio Caroline, all over again

10/22/2014 by the editor 2 Comments

By Jim Henshaw By now, virtually every Canadian is aware of the stare-down going on between Netflix and our broadcast regulators, the CRTC. But there’s a similar confrontation concurrently flying under most of our media’s radar between the self-same CRTC and a group of radio stations in Vancouver. These stations, unlike Netflix, have their offices, […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: BBC, Britain, British Columbia, Canada, CRTC, film, law, Netflix, radio, television, Vancouver

Alice Cooper, Canadian icon

09/21/2014 by the editor 1 Comment

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

United we watch

09/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh My mother hated Labour Day. For her, a high school English teacher, it was not only a day to pay tribute to workers and unions, but a signal that the lazy, hazy days of summer were over, and it was time to go back to work. Every year, the prospect of facing […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, education, film, labour, movies, unions

Immersed in the oil sands

03/18/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten “Fort McMurray, city of excess,” says the voice-over in the trailer for Fort McMoney. The documentary video game, produced by the National Film Board and the Montreal-based game developer TOXA, allows users to take control of the boomtown, and determine the virtual fate of the oilsands. Combining real footage and interviews with […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alberta, film, Fort McMurray, money, National Film Board, new media, online gaming, online media, tar sands, video games

The Video: Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Owning Mahowny”

02/03/2014 by the editor 2 Comments

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

You call this festive?

11/29/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Cinema is in the middle of a pandemic. Every day of the year, a film festival is taking place somewhere, or somewheres, in theatres, lecture halls, community centres. Vancouver alone hosts at least a dozen. There’s the Queer one, the Asian one, the South African one, the Latin American one, the Polish […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Banff, film, Toronto, Toronto International Film Festival, Vancouver

Oil sands doc is on key

10/18/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh A guy walks into a bar . . . That’s pretty much how film-maker Charles Wilkinson came to make his seductive documentary, Oil Sands Karaoke, about, of all things, a karaoke contest in the heart of you-know-what country, Fort McMurray. After being distinctly underwhelmed by two earlier forays during the Vancouver International Film […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, film, Fort McMurray, music, oil sands, Vancouver

The Video: John and Tarek say hi

10/10/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, Egypt, film, Israel

A Streetcar Named Disaster

10/05/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By TJ Dawe Blue Jasmine, this year’s Woody Allen movie, is a pretty blatant reworking of A Streetcar Named Desire, but with a vital difference: the Blanche character doesn’t represent Tennessee Williams and his artistic sensitivity — she’s the personification of America, before and after the financial collapse. Here’s her story, in bullet points — […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: economy, film, real estate, theatre

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

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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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