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Quebec filmmaker Claude Fournier adapted Gabrielle Roy’s The Tin Flute
Filmmaker Claude Fournier. Credit: Pierre Dury
on the scene
Supporting the Surrey Hospitals Foundation, and a fête for film
Nolan Bryant
opinion
Mennonites are in the spotlight. Is my image-conscious community ready for the attention?
Andrew Unger
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Five things to watch this weekend: Donald Glover takes on Beyoncé in Swarm, plus Mississauga’s Ethan Eng covertly takes over his high school in Therapy Dogs
Barry Hertz
film
Documentary filmmaker Brian D. Johnson on setting the soundtrack for new film The Colour of Ink
THE COLOUR OF INK (Documentary). Jason Logan in his home studio. Credit: Brian D. Johnson / Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada and Sphinx Productions, 2022
football
CFL’s annual Canadian combine has come a long way since O’Shea participated
Malik Richards of Brampton, Ontario, takes part in on field tests during the CFL combine in Toronto, Sunday March 24, 2019. The Winnipeg Blue Bomber signed offensive lineman offensive lineman Drew Desjarlais and receiver Malik Richards - both 2019 draft selections - on Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Blinch
world
Willis Reed, Hall of Fame centre for champion Knicks, dies at 80
FILE PHOTO: Former New York Knicks captain Willis Reed is interviewed before the Knicks' NBA basketball game with the Milwaukee Bucks at Madison Square Garden in New York April 5, 2013. The Knicks honored Reed and the rest of the 1972-73 Championship team at halftime ceremonies. REUTERS/Ray Stubblebine/File Photo
film review
Bloated but beautifully brutal John Wick: Chapter 4 stuffs your guts before Keanu Reeves spills them
Keanu Reeves as John Wick and Donnie Yen as Caine in John Wick 4. Photo Credit: Murray Close
film review
Tender Canadian queer romance You Can Live Forever finds love in the Jehovah’s Witness community
L to R: June Laporte (Marike) and Anwen O’Driscoll (Jaime) in YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER, photo by Gayle Ye
life
Remember taking photos with a film camera? It’s making a comeback
A 35 mm film is inserted into an analogue camera in Cologne, western Germany on August 27, 2018. (Photo by Oliver Berg / dpa / AFP) / Germany OUTOLIVER BERG/AFP/Getty Images
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Five things to stream this weekend: Netflix’s Money Shot: The Pornhub Story offers skin-deep look at internet’s dirtiest little secret
Barry Hertz
film review
Toronto’s Little Tibet deserves brighter spotlight than thin, unfairly inflated drama Tenzin
Gen Sonam La in directors Michael LeBlanc and Joshua Reichmann’s TENZIN, a Game Theory Films release.
film review
Lauded Canadian drama Riceboy Sleeps marks arrival of a ferociously talented storyteller
RICEBOYS SLEEPS (2022). Shown: Dohyun Noel Hwang as child Dong-Hyun. Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.
film
‘A fever-dream whirlwind’: Navalny director and Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher on his Oscars-night win
Canadian filmmaker Daniel Roher (C) accepts the Oscar for Best documentary feature film for "Navalni" onstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 12, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
film review
Clement Virgo’s beautiful Brother is an instantly essential addition to Toronto cinema canon
BROTHER (2022). Francis (Aaron Pierre) and Michael (Lamar Johnson) are brothers who immigrated to Canada in the 1990s and are fiercely protective of each other. Francis, in particular, has his foot in different worlds: one of violence and danger and the other of his family. The film also follows Michael as he navigates a suburban landscape and his own temptations with the dark side. Courtesy of Elevation Pictures
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Oscars 2023: Canada’s big night is wake-up call for resource-strapped film industry
Barry Hertz
arts
Oscars 2023: Everything Everywhere All at Once dominates Oscars
US actress Jamie Lee Curtis accepts the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for "Everything Everywhere All at Once" onstage during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on March 12, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
arts
Scream VI tops box office with franchise-best $44.5-million opening
This image released by Paramount Pictures shows a scene from "Scream VI." (Philippe Bossé/Paramount Pictures via AP)
film
Will RRR’s Oscars 2023 spotlight open Hollywood’s door for Indian filmmakers?
S. S. Rajamouli, poses with the Best Foreign Language Film for "RRR" at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
obituary
Chaim Topol, Israeli actor known for Fiddler’s Tevye, dies at 87
(FILE PHOTO) Fiddler on the Roof Actor Chaim Topol dies aged 87 Israeli actor Chaim Topol, 1967. (Photo by Larry Ellis/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
opinion
In the Morrisseau art fraud case, police should let documentary filmmakers do our jobs – and that includes protecting footage
Jamie Kastner
bigger picture
‘As of next week, I’m going to be in sweatpants’: Sarah Polley on the roller-coaster ride of Oscar season
Sarah Polley attends the 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 26, 2023. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci
film
The fine art of being Willem Dafoe
US actor Willem Dafoe attends Focus Features' "Inside" New York Screening at Metrograph on February 28, 2023 in New York City (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
screen time
The cold, hard truth about this year’s Canadian-ish Academy Award nominees
Barry Hertz
film
Anthony Shim’s Riceboy Sleeps wins Toronto critics’ award for best Canadian film
This undated handout photo obtained from the Toronto International Film Festival shows a movie still from Korean-Canadian filmmaker Anthony Shim's poignant coming-of-age story "Riceboy Sleeps". "Riceboy Sleeps" won a prestigious prize at the Toronto film festival, but Anthony Shim's movie about growing up as a Korean immigrant in majority-white Vancouver has also proved a hit in his native South Korea. Courtesy of TIFF
film review
Willem Dafoe can’t escape dull confines of torturous psychological thriller Inside
Willem Dafoe stars as Nemo in director Vasilis Katsoupis' INSIDE, a Focus Features release. Credit: Wolfgang Ennenbach / Focus Features
film review
Be kind and rewind remarkable new Canadian video-store comedy I Like Movies
L to R: Percy Hynes White (Matt), Isaiah Lehtinen (Lawrence) and Krista Bridges (Terri) in I LIKE MOVIES. Photo courtesy of VHS Forever Inc.
canada
Designers at ‘Star Trek’ spinoff and Guillermo del Toro anthology win costume awards
The winners of the 2023 CAFTCAD awards are shown in this handout image. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-The Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design **MANDATORY CREDIT **
arts
Before Oscars, ‘Everything Everywhere’ dominates Independent Spirit Awards
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 04: (L-R) Stephanie Hsu, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang, Ke Huy Quan, and Dan Kwan, winners of the Best Feature award for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” pose at the Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Salutes The Filmmaking Pioneers at The 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards on March 04, 2023 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Presley Ann/Getty Images for Bulleit Frontier Whiskey )
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Five things to stream this weekend: Women Talking comes home, plus bears and donkeys, oh my
Barry Hertz
film review
Ireland’s Oscar-nominated The Quiet Girl speaks volumes about the power of being loved
THE QUIET GIRL (2022). Rural Ireland 1981. A quiet, neglected girl (Catherine Clinch) is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one. Credit: Elevation Pictures
arts
New documentary 299 Queen Street West tracks how MuchMusic became a star-making machine
Please photo credit MuchMusic. Former MuchMusic VJs (from left to right) Chris Ward, Denise Donlon, Mike Williams and Erica Ehm deliver exclusive commentary about their favourite Much moments and the channel's importance in pop-culture history in "Much Turns 20". Airing Tuesday August 31st @ 6pm ET - the same date and time MuchMusic first went to air 20 years ago.
film review
Electrifying drama Return to Seoul will touch your nerves and rattle your soul
RETURN TO SEOUL (20220. Jimin Park as Freddie. After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on (an unexpected) journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions. Courtesy of Pictures Classics / Mongrel Media
film review
Beguiling Queens of the Qing Dynasty confirms Cape Breton’s Ashley McKenzie as a truly original storyteller
Queens of the Qing Dynasty (2022). Star (Sarah Walker) is a neurodiverse teen in a remote small town who, following a suicide attempt, has been deemed unfit to live independently. Star’s everyday life is consumed with intrusive prodding by doctors and countless negotiations with social workers and nameless faces who can’t seem to break through. When An (Ziyin Zheng), an international student from Shanghai, is assigned to watch Star in hospital, a peculiar, promising relationship is ignited, one that offers a new lease on life. Courtesy of TIFF
film
Everything Everywhere film, Tom Cruise honoured at Producers Guild of America awards
This image released by A24 Films shows, from left, Stephanie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in a scene from, "Everything Everywhere All At Once." (Allyson Riggs/A24 Films via AP)
obituary
Actor Gordon Pinsent, the friendly face and roguish heart of Canadian cinema, dead at 92
Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent is shown in 2012, soon after the release of his memoir Next.