[Image-1] It’s what New York and Los Angeles have known for decades: There’s an inestimable thrill in seeing your town up on the big screen. It’s qualifying. It’s justifying. It’s mythic. And it’s a privilege we in Halifax will likely have fewer opportunities to enjoy as Nova Scotia’s cinematic storytellers leave town in gangs, thanks […]
Carsten Knox
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North Mountain goes in a new direction
North Mountain Premiere Wednesday, September 23, 9:15pm Park Lane Cinema, 5657 Spring Garden Road $11.25 Bretten Hannam shot his first feature film, North Mountain, over 13 days in January down near Kejimkujik—the Mersey River and Caledonia area, not too far from where he grew up in the Annapolis Valley. It was brutally cold. “We finished […]
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Wetlands
Wetlands November 28, 10:50pm Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street If you can imagine Amelie with an anti-hygiene fixation, or Trainspotting where Renton is more inclined toward bodily functions than heroin, you may have a sense of Wetlands. Helen (Carla Juri) is a skateboarder with a healthy sex drive suffering from an anal […]
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Heart to heartbeat
A few years ago, it looked like Andrea Dorfman might never make another feature film. She had plenty to keep her busy. She made a documentary called Sluts, Emmy-nominated animations (Flawed) and collaborated with her friend, poet and musician Tanya Davis. Their video How To Be Alone from 2010—now approaching seven million views on YouTube—is […]
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Fall Arts Preview – September 2014
11 The Coast Fall Arts Preview hits the streets! You’ve got one, you’re OK. Atlantic Film Festival kicks off today, running to September 18, read our coverage on page 16 to plan your fest. 12 Darrin Rose brings his live stand-up show, My Dad’s Other Son, to the Neptune Theatre. Read more on page 22. […]
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Fall Arts Preview October 2014
1 Who doesn’t love a good photo? Photopolis is the biggest photography festival in Atlantic Canada and for 31 days in October, the city will be covered with beautiful, provocative and moving photographs in 35 exhibits. Major international exhibits include a glimpse into Andy Warhol’s photography in Little Red Book at the AGNS and Syria […]
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Fall Arts Preview – November 2014
1 Vile Passéist Theatre: We love you. Keep doing what you do, you crazy diamonds. Devoted to performing strictly early modern plays, this not-for-profit art society pushes audiences past Shakespeare and into worthwhile scripts by lesser-known playwrights from the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. Coming up in November at the Bus Stop Theatre, John Lyly’s Gallathea, […]
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HIFF gets road trippy
Seth Scriver went to NSCAD in the late ’90s. When asked what degree he graduated with he asks for clarification: “You mean, what was my thing?” Yeah. “It was a Bachelor of Fine Art, Interdisciplinary—that’s like a Bachelor of Fuck-All of Everything.” Now he works construction. But when he gets together with Shayne Ehman, which […]
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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Imagine if Kit and Holly in Terrence Malick’s Badlands had been caught early in their spree and Kit was incarcerated. That’s more or less the starting point for Lowery’s 1970s-set romantic drama, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as Texan lovers Bob and Ruth, separated by crime and the law. Ruth takes care of their […]
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Kill Your Darlings
A pre-Howl Allen Ginsberg attended Columbia University in 1944 where he met some like-minded, shit-disturbing young poets and writers, including Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, who set about changing the world. But the key relationship here is between Ginsberg (convincingly essayed by former boy wizard Daniel Radcliffe) and the painfully closeted Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan, […]
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Top of the Lake
A seven-episode TV series set in rural New Zealand, Top of the Lake is a real treat. It stars Golden Globe award-winning Elizabeth Moss–the Mad Men actor rocking a very plausible Kiwi accent–as a police investigator returning to her hometown and getting involved in a mystery involving child abuse, abduction and drug dealing. In Campion’s capable […]
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Short Term 12
A truly remarkable independent film that didn’t stand a hope in hell of making it into the multiplex, this is a gem not be missed on a smaller screen. Based on the experiences of writer-director Cretton, who worked in a group home for at-risk teens, we meet an ensemble of tough kids and the somewhat […]
