Filmmakers often aren’t inclined to fade quietly into retirement. The creative impulse and love of the filmmaking process is often too much for them to resist. Jean-Luc Godard was active right up until his recent
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TALENT ON TAP: Koumbie on Writing and Wrangling the BYSTANDERS
I had done plenty of filmmaker interviews for Hollywood North Magazine in the past, but this one was different. First of all, it took place in an empty Cineplex auditorium just before a screening and
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Why BLACKBERRY is Just What Canadian Cinema Needs
I’m proud to say that I was a die hard fan of Toronto-based filmmaker Matt Johnson before it was cool. From the moment I witnessed his groundbreaking debut feature The Dirties at Vancouver’s Rio Theatre
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DOXA: BIG FIGHT IN LITTLE CHINATOWN
“Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown”, so goes the final line of Robert Towne’s screenplay for the classic 1974 film in which the titular “Chinatown” is more of a defeatist state of mind than an actual
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THE END OF SEX Reunites an Unexpected Trio
It’s been just over a decade since director Sean Garrity teamed up with actors Jonas Chernick and Emily Hampshire to produce the 2012 sex-comedy An Awkward Sexual Adventure, where Chernick portrayed a jilted office drone
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BYSTANDERS Mines the Limits of Loyalty Among Friends
It’s rather easy to see a mugshot of an accused or convicted criminal in the media and say to yourself “well that guy’s clearly rotten to the core” or some other similar sentiment. It’s almost
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