• The floor of the Metro Centre is a weird place to have a party. It’s like the world’s biggest high school dance. The urbanity of the street event was missed according to my informal poll of attendees, though I do agree with my colleague Hillary, it was nice without the velvet rope partitions this […]
Atlantic Film Festival
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P-A-R-T-WHY? Because I Gotta!
People I saw: Josh MacDonald: His Halo movie (not based on the video game) is in the final stages of post-production. Look for it in 2010. Jason Eisener and Sean Flinn: Eisener, a local filmmaker, and Flinn, a local journalist (if you read The Coast, you see his name often) both asked where my usual […]
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Cats vs. Kitties
In addendum to Mr. Knox’s recent post on Bright Star and Love and Savagery, I would like to point out what makes Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day and Bright Star unlikely bedfellows: cats! Trailer Park Boys, of course, features renown cat-lover Bubbles and Countdown to Liquor Day doesn’t disappoint. I always admired films […]
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Love and poetry
Sometimes the screening gods are kind, serving up two films in a row with genuine parallels. The two I’m thinking of, they’re both period films, they both feature poets as the male lead characters. Both wrestle with impossible love. One asks us to believe perfect love can be mined in three days, the other lets […]
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Hey crafters, visit Handmade Nation tonight
On Thursday night (9:30pm, Park Lane 4), crafty types are getting all geared up for Handmade Nation, a documentary that explores the connections between handmade goods, the popular DIY movement, punk, feminism and anti-consumerism. But if you’d like to connect with your fellow Hali-crafters, there’s a meet-up beforehand, appropriately at Love, Me Boutique, from 7-8:30pm.
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Ricky, Julien, Bubbles and Hillary
I just got back from interviewing the Trailer Park Boys for an online feature for The Coast. Though extremely excited for the opportunity, I was a little weary of the prospect of the Boys being in character, which I was assured they would be. I suppose that I was just concerned that I would be the straight man in a comedy routine that had been in rehearsals with out me. Thankfully, a couple of things managed to mitigate any awkwardness and made for a decent interview: John-Paul Tremblay, Mike Smith and Robb Wells have been at this shtick for almost
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Atlantic Film Festival opening gala promises you Bubbles
Looking for something in between fancy and ridiculous to do tonight? I’d suggest the Atlantic Film Festival opening gala. I’m just going to pull the info directly from the press releases, because sometimes they say it best: “The Metro Centre will be turned into the city’s biggest celebration of the World Premiere of Trailer Park […]
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Atlantic Film Fest: Saturday’s Picks
Our first full day of films! If you see us roaming around, say hi. Here’s where we’ll be: Shorts |||: Women on Top (Park Lane 8, 2pm): Hey ladies! Short docs about a pop-art nun, an electronic musician and a 70-year-old woman who makes Demi Moore’s thing with Ashton into a big yawnfest. Jiggers (Park […]
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Ariella Pahlke’s smoke signals
Living in rural Halifax, filmmaker Ariella Pahlke is used to sounds of the wild. And not just the chorus of chirping crickets and shushing leaves, but the piercing squeal of the real wild ones—drivers burning rubber. The activity, also called laying a patch, burning out, squealing tires or simply just givin’er, was foreign to Pahlke. […]
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Jessica Paré is bloody nice
Way to tap the zeitgeist. How could Toronto-based writer/director Rob Stefaniuk have known years ago—when conceiving of his new rock ‘n’ roll vampire movie Suck—that in 2009 bloodsuckers would be pop culture fixtures, more adored than even zombies? He was ahead of the bloody wave, but he got the picture made with actual rock stars: […]
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Playing the Fielder
Last summer, the producers of This Hour Has 22 Minutes sent the show’s man-on-the-street Nathan Fielder to the US to make a documentary about the presidential election. He got as far as Virginia. And although Love and Cameras in America features a brief encounter between Fielder and then-candidate Barack Obama, the movie has very little […]
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Cut from the same cloth
In Sherry White’s directorial debut, Crackie, the feature film’s main character, Mitsy, wears a red coat. But she does more than just put it on for a few scenes: She recedes into it. The winterwear envelops Mitsy, becoming part—an emblem—of the character, played by Meaghan Greeley. “That red jacket that she wears, which I loved, […]
