Cinema of Canada

8 Nov 2012

Canada's Foreign Language Film Oscar nominee for 2012, Monsieur Lazhar is not just another tale of an inspirational teacher and his precocious students. Far from ordinary, the French language...

2:52PM

The original mad men

25 Mar 2012

Barely has David Cronenberg's publicist entered a lavish hotel suite off Vienna's Ringstrasse than she breaks the bad news: the Canadian filmmaker is not going to shake hands with anyone today....

11:09AM

Bdy of horror

25 Mar 2012

Scanners (1981)

11:07AM

Postcard

25 Sep 2011

The US doesn't have a big A-list film festival on the east coast - so it has one in Canada instead. The Toronto International Film Festival attracts a clutch of American stars, producers and sales...

8:24PM

Atanarjuat

28 Aug 2011

When Atanarjuat won the best first film award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, Canadians were overjoyed. The success of Zacharias Kunuk's film was a welcome marker of Canada's burgeoning re-...

5:59PM

Canadian centenary

2 May 2010

Today, the National Film Board of Canada celebrates its 101st anniversary - an occasion marked by the availability of Guy Maddin's Night Mayor, made last year to commemorate the institution's...

9:26AM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

3 comments

4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

3 comments

4:27AM

Adoration

Adoration
Devon Bostick, Scott Speedman, Arsinee Khanjian, Rachel Blanchard
Director: Atom Egoyan

9:27PM

Brand Upon the Brain!

Starring: Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson

Director: Guy Maddin

3:30PM

Hanako's Pillow

Theatre du Pif

Studio Theatre, HK Cultural Centre

Reviewed: July 10

5:29AM

Lars and the Real Girl

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Patricia Clarkson

Director: Craig Gillespie

1:52AM

Vancouver resents its place in spotlight

Happy ending sought for movie location blues

Cables running in front of homes, spotlights shining on nighttime streets and parking spots for customers at businesses blocked off -...

7:21AM

It's a long haul for co-productions

Hengdian

It's day 23 of the 30-day Iron Road shoot, and at the vast Hengdian Studios in the rural hinterland of Zhejiang province Canadian producer Raymond Massey is looking nervous...

1:11PM