Canada has been turning out films that push the storytelling, aesthetics, and genre conventions to their extremes since the dawn of time. Like Hollywood is to mainstream Cinema, Canada has become noted for having a
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My First Encounter with Guy Maddin
It is not always easy to identify a film’s director by simply observing the way in which it is filmed. Influence begets influence, and so the pioneering techniques developed by cinematic visionaries are later adopted
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4DX at Cineplex, Visuals in Songs, and Canada in Memphis
(Via Marketwired) Cineplex is bringing 4DX, an immersive theatre technology, to Canada for the first time. “Amplifying the experience from watching a movie to almost being in it,” is how a media release describes 4DX.
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Film Awards, Film Releases, Filmmaker to mourn
(via northernstars.ca) The Forbidden Room has won the 2015 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. As we mentioned yesterday, it was in competition with Sleeping Giant and My Internship in Canada, among others. The award was
Continue ReadingSundance Film Festival
As of today, Sundance Film Festival has opened, showing many films from different countries. A record number of 10 feature films are Canadian productions or co-productions. So far, they all sound interesting as well. The
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