Sue Carter Flinn

Photos from Down to the Dirt screening on Sunday night. AFF director Gregor Ash musically shows love to his home province of Newfoundland. If the film thing doesn’t work out, dude has a future as a singer. Exec producer Jennice Ripley, writer/actor/bad-ass in velvet Joel Thomas Hynes and actor Mylène Savoie. Lovely Mylène Savoie after […]

So, I’m sure that the Canadian arty pohleease are going to kill me for saying this, but I am not an Atom Egoyan fan. I thought I liked <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109759/" target="_blank"Exotica, but then I watched part of it again a couple weeks ago, and it felt very heavy-handed. I did like The Sweet Hereafter, but […]

That name will probably only mean something to fans of The Wire as it was Clark Johnson’s news editor character on season five. It appeared as if Hillary & I were among the only Wire junkies when Johnson filled in for Leslie Nielsen (who’s 82!) today at the ACTRA Studio event. Nielson’s brother, politician Erik […]

I took in the the industry screening for the Atlantic Shorts Gala (scheduled for Tuesday, 7pm, Oxford) because I think it might already be sold out. I’m not going to say anything about these yet, other than I realized that the real fun of the shorts program is being in a theatre filled with proud […]

If you’re allergic to long political talks, save the sparkly dress and avoid gala screenings. Speeches at last night’s Blindness gala ran from the passionate–AFF board chair Jennifer Gillivan received a well-deserved standing ovation for what was the most compelling “Arts are important” speeches I’ve heard (run for office, please)–to lame-o–there were gentle snorts and […]

There’s a dead mermaid in Anne Pickard’s home studio. Headless, she’s on a stand, propped in a chair, her tail cascading onto the floor. Behind her is a head—or at least hair—matted black and stringy, with bits of seaweed and beach debris tangled in its locks. The carcass is at the centre of Cory Bowles’ […]

that if Blindness was opening the film fest, there was a good chance that its screenwriter/actor Don McKellar was coming to town. And he is! And so I will have one more chance to stand beside him, and ignore him and think of all sorts of dumbass things to say to him from afar. This […]

With more than 250 films, and a festival guide bulky enough to act as a doorstop, it can be a tricky business deciding what movies to see at the Atlantic Film Festival. Here are a few tips to help you choose, depending on your mood, values or personal taste. If you’re dreading the election call…Oh […]

Joe Strummer: The Future Is UnwrittenDirected by: Julien Temple(Sony Legacy)Julien Temple has already proven his punk-doc chops with The Filth and the Fury, focusing on the tempestuous relationship between The Sex Pistols and their Svengali manager Malcolm McLaren. Temple employs the same beautiful collaged style to document the life of his friend, Joe Strummer, The […]