W>e know where you’ll be this week. You, like everyone else in town, will become a cinephile, seeing documentaries, short films and features at the Atlantic Film Festival. What you might not realize is while you’re opening your mind in darkened screening rooms, the wheels behind the scenes are turning. For the 12th year, the […]
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It’s the end of the line for the Trailer Park Boys
After almost a decade in front of cameras documenting their every boneheaded and reckless move, the Trailer Park Boys, Ricky, Julian and Bubbles, seem pretty comfortable holding court in a downtown hotel suite. With a bare-bones short, One Last Shot, a decade ago appearing at the 1999 edition of the Atlantic Film Festival and after […]
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The White Stripes movie not coming to the Atlantic Film Fest
Maybe next time Halifax. I just received this from the Atlantic Film Festival: To those who added The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights to their B-Side schedule, I am sorry to report that due to circumstances beyond our control we have had to cancel the screening. If you have already purchased a ticket […]
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Film Fest following
Among movie folk, there’s a ritual: Sit down with the Atlantic Film Festival catalogue and/or website, and plot out every moviegoing second (from September 17 to 26), considering travel time, crowd sizes and the chance of films actually coming back. We hoard non-perishables and determine which lanyard ribbon brings out the colour in our Vitamin […]
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Atlantic Film Fest announces its Atlantic program line-up.
Burning Rubber performance by Steven Laurie, 2007. This year AFF is spreading out the anticipation; it’s like an advent calendar for film nerds. Yesterday they announced the Atlantic program line-up, with over 70 short and feature-length films. Newfoundland film is really strong this year—the Atlantic gala presentation is Love and Savagery by director John N. […]
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Film Fest tix @ Video Difference
Starting Wednesday, August 26, tickets for the 29th Atlantic Film Festival will be available at Video Difference, but only at the Quinpool Road location.
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Get out the rum: Trailer Park Boys are opening the Atlantic Film Fest
Will these guys get past security? So we just received word that Trailer Park Boys Countdown to Liquor Day will open the 29th Atlantic Film Festival, which starts on September 17 and runs until the 26th. Update: There are a few changes people should know about this year. After the opening night screenings, the red […]
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al-Fresco announces new home and this year’s film series
There’s been a lot of buzz about the future of alFresco Film Fresco, the outdoor film series, when it lost its alfresco location at the waterfront Electropolis building. No fears—-the series has found a new indoor/outdoor home at Pier 20 (try a Google map search for “alfresco filmfesto” for the location), which means no more […]