48 Hour Film Project premiere Thursday, September 27, 6:30pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road $10 tickethalifax.com The character: Liam or Lily, professional musician. The prop: An alarm clock. The line: “What a small world!” Then: Pick one of two genres. Those were the restrictions placed on the 11 teams competing […]
Cannes Film Festival
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Review: Son of Saul
Unlike most Holocaust movies, Son of Saul doesn’t go out of its way to show you the horrors; in this Cannes Grand Prix winner directed by László Nemes (making his feature debut), the atrocities pile up in the corners, on the edges, often out-of-focus or, worse, via the film’s human score of whispers, screams and […]
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Halifax’s Turbine to entice celebrities at Cannes
[image-1] Lisa Drader-Murphy is going to have a better May than you. This Thursday she’s taking some choice items from her boutique in Halifax, Turbine (1475 Lower Water Street), to lovely Cannes, for that little film fest they have there. The three featured items (the Upside-Down Dress, a reversible leather hobo bag, and the Day to Night #27 red mineral lipstick duo) are all being packaged together as a Cannes survival kit. Drader-Murphy is no stranger to the celebrity gifting table circuit—Turbine also had a table at this year’s Golden Globes—so we asked her to confirm our suspicions: that celebrities