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Philippe Falardeau is starting to stress over the Oscars
You’d think he’d be happy to be in the hunt for an Oscar but the way Montreal filmmaker Philippe Falardeau tells it, it’s just one mighty stressful experience. His film, Monsieur Lazhar, has been...
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While promoting Quebec film Café de Flore, Vanessa Paradis denies split with...
Montreal filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café de Flore came out across France this week and the launch of the complex, moving, era-hopping love story had the film’s star Vanessa Paradis on the talk-show...
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REVIEW: Soul diva Kim Richardson at Le Balcon
I have long said Montreal soul singer Kim Richardson and her mom Jackie Richardson are the Whitney and Cissy Houston of Canada. These ladies can sang. And Kim proved it yet again last night in a solo...
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Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar wins audience award at Rotterdam Film...
Montreal filmmaker Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar has won the UPC Audience Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, a major European festival. The prize win was announced Saturday. The...
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Anne Émond nabs the Claude Jutra Award for Nuit #1
I really liked Nuit #1, Anne Émond’s brave first feature, and so apparently do the folks at the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. The Academy announced Wednesday that Émond has won this...
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Actor Viggo Mortensen is a loyal Habs fan, whether they’re winning or losing
Actor Viggo Mortensen professed his love for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team for the whole country to see when he accepted his Best Actor Genie Award on Thursday March 8, 2012. Mortensen won the...
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Screenwriter Steve Galluccio: “Funkytown was snubbed by the Jutra and Genie...
Quebec’s film business is thriving. Director Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar was even nominated for a best foreign-language Oscar this year. What is surprising is that Steve Galluccio’s...
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The Genie and Gemini Awards to merge into one gala
I know, I know, it’s hard to contain your excitement. The Genie Awards, Canada’s annual prize-giving event for English and French-language homegrown cinema, is set to merge with the Gemini Awards,...
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Viggo Mortensen carrying the flag for the Habs – literally
I quite like Viggo Mortensen as an actor. No not ’cause of his star-making turn as Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy – those movies are way over-rated and folks will look back 20 years from now...
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Michel Côté to receive Prix Jutra-Homage
Michel Côté (left) and Jutra host Rémy Girard. Gazette photo by Phil Carpenter. The folks who organize the Jutra Awards have decided that this year’s recipient of the Prix Jutra-Homage, their...
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