All articles by Agnes Poirier – Page 4
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NBC ponders $1.2bn purchase of Bravo network
US broadcastinggiant NBC is said to be pondering the takeover of Bravo, the arts andentertainment cable network that was a pioneer in showing US independent andsubtitled foreign films on American television.According to areport in the Wall Street Journal, NBC is seeking to swap its 21% stake in Bravo'scontrolling company Rainbow ...
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Whale Rider
Dir: Niki Caro New Zealand-Germany 2002 105min.Whale Rider deftly melds in a spirited package a portrait of contemporary rural Maori life with a tale from its rich mythology. Avoiding the overt sentimentality that often mars coming-of-age tales, this New Zealand-Germany co-production offers something for every age group without pandering to ...
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Cabin Fever
Dir: Eli Roth. US. 2002 94 min.This is not the next Blair Witch Project, nor does it aim to be. Cabin Fever is a throwback to the minimalism and stasis of a George Romero zombie movie. Indeed, the film says more about first-time filmmaker Eli Roth's attentive viewing of ...
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The Crime Of Father Amaro (El Crimen Del Padre Amaro)
Dir: Carlos Carrera Mex-Sp-Arg-Fr 2002 118mins.Already breaking records at home in Mexico, Carlos Carrera's fifth feature is a compelling, multi-textured social drama that fires some hard questions at the role of the Catholic Church amid the extremes of wealth and poverty. Rising star Gael Garcia Bernal (Amores Perros, Y Tu ...
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Equinox names Yves Dion vice president of distribution
Montreal-based distributor Equinox Entertainment has appointed industry veteran Yves Dion to the position of vice-president of distribution. Dion was formerly president of Blackwatch Releasing and prior to that was president of Malofilm Distribution for 14 years.Dion' first official deal saw Equinox pick up Canadian rights to Deborah Day's Expecting, a ...
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TVA takes local rights to Rhombus Media's current slate
TVA Films has picked up Canadian rights to new films from three major Canadian filmmakers, Francois Girard, Don McKellar and Guy Maddin, representing the entire production slate of Toronto-based Rhombus Media.Rhombus produced Girard's films The Red Violin and 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould as well as McKellar's debut ...
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Cronenberg, Sokurov take top honours at Toronto
Local hero David Cronenberg and Russian Ark director Alexandr Sokurov won the major adjudicated prizes as the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped its 27th edition. Cronenberg's Cannes competitor Spider took the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature while Sokurov's technical masterpiece, Russian Ark, an epochal 96 minute, single-take, won the ...
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Cronenberg, Sokurov, Caro take top honours at Toronto
Local hero David Cronenberg and Russian Ark director Alexandr Sokurov won the major adjudicated prizes as the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped its 27th edition. Cronenberg's Cannes competitor Spider took the Toronto-City Award for Best Canadian Feature while Sokurov's technical masterpiece, an epochal 96 minute, single-take, won the inaugural Independent ...
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Toronto Comment - Canada's Five Per Cent Solution
Unless you're in "the industry," you probably don't read film trade magazines. Sure, you know about the weekly "Box Office Top 10" that runs in your newspaper's entertainment column, and that it currently lists such films as Signs and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.But you probably don't know the ...
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Montreal to get yet another major film studio
Montreal is set to be home to another major film studio development, a $25.6m (C$40m) full-service facility backed by Los Angeles-based WonderWorks Entertainment Group, Avondale Pictures and Quebec architectural firm Smith & Koenka. The new 210,000 sq. ft. studio, to be called WonderWorks Montreal will be situated on a 4-million ...
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Vancouver film festival launches screenwriting prize
The 21st Vancouver International Film Festival is to introduce a new local screenwriter's cash award.The $7,700 Citytv Western Canada Screenwriters Award will be presented annually to a film from western Canada, with this year's winner, selected by the Canadian Images jury, to be announced at the Closing Gala Awards Ceremony ...
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Alliance Atlantis records dip in first quarter profit
Alliance Atlantis Communications recorded a lower first quarter profit due to weaker results in its broadcast division. In a statement the company said that while its first fiscal quarter is historically its most modest, this was compounded by severance payments for the 37 full-time positions cut earlier in the year, ...
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Wedding makes big fat impact at Canadian box-office
My Big Fat Greek Wedding has earned $1.9m (C$3m) at the Canadian box office in its first ten days on release through Montreal-based Equinox Films, making it one of the top non-studio box office releases of the year to date. The romantic comedy, which was written by and stars Canadian ...
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Toronto festival brims with high-profile world premieres
The 27th Toronto International Film Festival has announced another slew of world premieres, including titles from such leading filmmakers as Joel Schumacher, Neil Jordan, Robert Duvall, Phillip Noyce, Jim Sheridan and Paul Schrader .At the final press conference before the festival rolls Sept. 5, programming director Piers Handling and managing ...
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Festival brims with high-profile world premieres
The 27th Toronto International Film Festival has announced another slew of world premieres, including titles from such leading filmmakers as Joel Schumacher, Neil Jordan, Robert Duvall, Phillip Noyce, Jim Sheridan and Paul Schrader .At the final press conference before the festival rolls Sept. 5, programming director Piers Handling and managing ...
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Jean-Luc Godard to lecture at Montreal World Film Festival
Iconic filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard will attend the Montreal World Film Festival (Aug 22 - Sept 2) to give a lecture on filmmaking and his place in it. The lecture, entitled Le regard de Jean-Luc Godard sur le cinema d'aujourd'hui et de demain (Jean-Luc Godard and the Cinema of the Present ...
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Bollywood/Hollywood tops list of world premieres for Toronto's Perspective Canada
Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood will make its world premiere as the opening night film for the Toronto International Film Festival's Perspective Canada programme. Among the other 16 world premieres announced were Long Life, Happiness And Prosperity by Mina Shum and two Canada/UK co-productions, The Wild Dogs by Thom Fitzgerald ...
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Toronto to introduce Ponti's Strangers
Edoardo Ponti's Canada-Italy co-production Between Strangers will make its world premiere at the 27th Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 5-14. The film, which will be screened as a Special Presentation, features an ensemble cast including Sophia Loren, Gerard Depardieu, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Mira Sorvino, Pete Postlethwaite, Malcolm McDowell and Debra ...
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Telefilm Canada backs eleven new features
Telefilm Canada is to back eleven new feature films, including the latest from Quebecois auteur Denys Arcand. With a combined budget of more than $16m, the projects include six French-language titles and five in English, including co-productions with the UK and Israel.Arcand's Les Invasions Barbares (Barbarian Invasion), his first film ...
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Two world premieres announced for Toronto.
The Toronto International Film Festival has announced two world premieres for its 27th outing: Peter Kosminsky's White Oleander, starring Robin Wright Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Renee Zellwegger, and writer-director Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile, starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Holly Hunter. Atom Egoyan's Ararat will open the festival, which runs ...