Arts & Culture

In her thoroughly engrossing new book A Killer Life, indie über-producer Christine Vachon (Go Fish, Kids, I Shot Andy Warhol, Far From Heaven) writes in the chapter “A Tale of Two Trumans” of being the producer of “the other Truman Capote movie.” The first, of course, is last year’s bleak Winnipeg-shot drama Capote, for which […]

The world is Thom Fitzgerald’s work-place. He’s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to promote his feature 3 Needles at the city’s film festival, his fourth film to show at the event. The story of 3 Needles spans the globe, presenting three transformative moments of HIV infecting people living in remote China, rural South Africa and […]

The formidable cast of this year’s first major Oscar grab, All the King’s Men, stretches across a platform on the fourth floor of Toronto’s Sutton Place Hotel. The line begins with Patricia Clarkson and ends with legendary producer Mike Medavoy. In between are Mark Ruffalo, Kate Winslet, writer-director Steven Zaillian, James Gandolfini and Sean Penn, […]

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen For starters, the title is a bit of a misnomer. One could be forgiven for thinking of it as some kind of biopic of the storied Danish explorer and his Greenland and Northwest Passage adventures. In fact, the film drops the audience into the Inuit culture of the early 20th […]

It happens overnight. Halifax goes from being a town where Canadian and foreign language films are an endangered cinematic species to a place where a comedy set in a Newfoundland outport called Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With, and Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar’s Volver, both shown at the Atlantic Film Festival, sell out their screenings. […]