The provincial government is putting a total of $23 million into the local film industry, premier Tim Houston announced today. Eight million of the funds will support a soundstage that, according to a press release from the province, “will increase the industry’s capacity, create more jobs and allow productions to continue year-round.” The remaining $15 […]
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Ashley McKenzie’s Queens of the Qing Dynasty premieres at the Berlin Film Festival
When the Berlin International Film Festival opens tomorrow, Nova Scotia will be there. Cape Breton writer-director Ashley McKenzie’s new movie, Queens of the Qing Dynasty, is making its world premier at Berlinale 2022, screening several times over the course of the February 10-20 festival. Queens is in BIFF’s “encounters” section, which is “a platform aiming […]
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FIN-tastic films and where to find them
This years’ edition of FIN Atlantic International Film Festival offers audiences a heady mix of timely topics, fresh faces, big ideas and big names. With 120 films screening over eight days, it’s impossible to get to all of them—so, here are a handful not-be-missed flicks we’re extra-amped for. Get ready to binge! Murmur The fest’s […]
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Heather Young’s film slays not with a bang but a Murmur
FIN AIFF Opening Night Gala: Murmur Thu Sep 12, 7pm Rebecca Cohn Auditorium 6101 University Avenue $50 The opposite of a silver-set Hollywood dream, Heather Young’s films have both feet firmly planted in reality. She wants to make movies about “a real person, that feels like someone I could meet in my real life—that both […]
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10 excuses to go to the movies this summer
June 28 Yesterday Danny Boyle returns with a new Patel in tow—Himesh, no relation to Slumdog Millionaire star Dev—for an alternate timeline comedy in which The Beatles don’t exist, allowing Patel’s Jack to become a huge star. There’s too much Ed Sheeran in the trailer for our liking, but there’s also lots of Kate McKinnon. […]
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25 for 25: episode 1996
If you haven’t heard prolific writer, former Pride co-chair and all-around lovely person Jane Kansas spin some yarns about the mid-’90s LGBTQ+ scene, you’re in for a treat. Then, film professor and local actor Glenn Walton is here to share stories from the set of Titanic—his special relationship with James Cameron, the film’s champagne budget and […]
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Lean On Pete’s heartbreaking journey
Lean On Pete Opens Friday, April 27 The titular character in Lean On Pete is a horse, but make no mistake: This film is no Flicka. It’s no Secretariat. If you want an unequivocally happy ending for both horse and human, you won’t find it here. But the story has other things to offer. Writer […]
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Hiring white men in Toronto to tell our stories: A part of our heritage
Heritage Minutes: If you lived in Canada in the ’90s and had a TV, you’re probably familiar with them. Closing with the tagline “a part of our heritage,” the Minutes’ subjects include the invention of basketball, the origin of the word ‘Canada,’ the Halifax Explosion, the Underground Railroad and many more. Historica Canada began to […]
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Hollywood’s recycling program
Don’t cry for the death of the classic cinematic experience—weep for the original screenwriter. Hollywood has always remade, reinvented and recast itself: We’re fresh off an updated Murder on the Orient Express, and a new Jumanji awaits this holiday season for those who…wanted it? But take a look over the past five years of box […]
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Lady Bird‘s feather touch
The actor Greta Gerwig has consistently pushed her way into public consciousness for the past decade, in indie favourites like Frances Ha, Maggie’s Plan and 20th Century Women, and a handful of Hollywood things like Jackie, Greenberg and The Mindy Project. Her style is disarmingly naturalistic, appearing to lack all form, but displaying and evoking […]
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Authentically Modified
Modified at Devour! The Food Film Fest Al Whittle Theatre 450 Main Street, Wolfville Tue Oct 24, 1pm Wed Oct 25, 10am $5, devourfest.com Growing up in the Gaspereau Valley, Aube Giroux’s backyard doubled as her grocery store. Her mother’s sprawling, bountiful garden was the source of not just her family’s every meal, but her […]
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Wait Outside with Your Necklaces On
Exhibit 117, Public Gardens, 5665 Spring Garden Road A decade ago, Martha Cooley was mugged in the city. A few years back she made a short super-8 film called Wait Outside with Your Necklaces On about that time. “I wanted to transpose that experience—it’s taken me 10 years to think about it, and what the […]