FEATURE FILMS Higher Ground – Friday, September 16, Park Lane 7, 7:05pm Naturalism and a radiant intelligence have been the distinguishing features of Vera Farmiga’s acting performances, and it’s a quality she brings to her directorial debut. Farmiga takes command in front of and behind the camera, playing a religious convert whose creeping doubt in […]
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The deal with Picnicface
Andrew Bush, Kyle Dooley, Cher Hann, Mark Little, Brian Eldon MacQuarrie, Evany Rosen, Scott Vrooman and Bill Wood —-known collectively as comedy powerhouse Picnicface—-have a TV show (Picnicface on The Comedy Network), a feature film (Roller Town) and a book (Picnicface’s Canada from HarperCollins) all available to enjoy in the next month or two. So […]
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Picnicface Q&A (Part One)
The Coast: How did you wind up using this house for the “Picnicface’s home” set? Kyle: We were shooting in this other location that was supposed to be our home. It was really funny. It was weird and new age. Cher: It was like, “Youth! Young people live here!” It was brutal. Kyle: Synthetic youth […]
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Picnicface Q&A (Part Two)
The Coast: How’s the show coming together? Mark: It’s been OK. We just need to see how it looks, edited. A few of us, especially Andy, is flying to Toronto as soon as we’re finished shooting. He’ll be digging into the editing, making notes. The Coast: Your executive producer, Mark McKinney, veteran of Kids In […]
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Picnicface opens festival with a big bang
I’ve been covering this festival for half a dozen years, and this is the first time it’s rained on the opening night during that span. A couple years back AFF director Lia Rinaldo told me part of the reason they decided to take the gala opening party inside from Argyle Street was because they figured […]
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Pearl Jam Twenty and The Interrupters
Though it wasn’t a part of the official Atlantic Film Festival, I attended Pearl Jam Twenty this evening, and it felt very much like a festival film, a rock doc that serves as a fine accompaniment to Wednesday’s doc on Patty Schemel, former drummer for another act out of the Pacific Northwest, Hole (which I […]
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Famke Janssen to attend AFF
Famke Janssen: Jean-Luc Picard fell for her as Kamala, The Perfect Mate Star Trek: The Next Generation, she crushed men between her thighs in Goldeneye as Xenia Onnatop, and she almost destroyed the world as Jean Grey/Phoenix in X-Men: The Last Stand. Now she’ll be here in Halifax for her writer/directorial feature debut Bringing Up […]
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Leone Stars wins TIFF Pitch This competition
Congratulations to Halifax producer Walter Forsyth and directors Ngardy Conteh and Allan Tong for winning the Pitch This at the Toronto International Film Festival competition over five dramatic film ideas. A jury of film professionals listened to a six minute pitch and two minutes of questions and answers before awarding the $10,000 prize to Leone […]
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Billy Boyd and Kristin Kreuk to attend AFF
Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy, an adaptation of “The Undefeated”, one of the stories in Welsh’s Ecstasy, Three Tales of Chemical Romance, screens at the AFF at Park Lane 7, 9:25pm on Sunday, September 18. It’s being tipped as a sequel to Trainspotting, which may be a bit misleading, but in spirit it certainly swims in the […]
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The Devil’s Double delay
When Coast reviewer Matthew Ritchie headed out to Bayers Lake this afternoon to see the new film The Devil’s Double, the film never started. Empire Bayers Lake employees informed him that it could take until Monday for the problem to be fixed. So, unless they move The Devil’s Double into another cinema, if you were […]
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Elephant & Castle closes its doors
The Feed has learned that due to a rent-owing situation with its landlord, the Elephant & Castle (5171 George Street) has closed its doors. Though word is the principles are negotiating (read: lawyers) the pub is closed until the situation is resolved.
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Palooka’s to close
Shoptalk has learned that Palooka’s Gym (2110 Gottingen Street, 492-4269) will be closing on September 30 and that the owners plan to sell the space.