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A Polish auteur — and Mike Tyson! — stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival (Riverfront Times)

Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, who’s been absent from movie screens (except as an occasional actor) for nearly as long as Indiana …

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National Film Board lays off 22 people, including two doc makers (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

MONTREAL - The National Film Board of Canada has laid off 22 people as a result of funding concerns and a focus on new media.

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Sleepy Judge Was Right in Film Investment Dispute, Court Says (Bloomberg.com)

June 11 (Bloomberg) — A Canadian film financing company made a wrong bet when it failed to challenge a sleepy judge at its trial and saved the complaint for an appeal, the Court of Appeal for Ontario said.

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McGuinty defends tax credits for controversial films (CTV Toronto)

Ennis Esmer, Peter Oldring, Natalie Lisinska in ‘Young People F–ing.’ The film was an official selection of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.

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McGuinty defends Ont. tax credits for racy film; politicians are not censors (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

TORONTO - Politicians should not engage in censorship of movies, art, literature or architecture, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday as he defended the use of provincial tax credits to help fund a controversial new movie about the sex lives of young singles.

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Ottawa-born ‘Gossip Girl’ creator says she refused to be thwarted from her dreams (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

BANFF, Alta. - Stephanie Savage is 38 but could pass for 20, pursued a PhD in film history but found herself writing for frothy nighttime teen soaps, and is one of the most successful women in the cut-throat Hollywood TV business after growing up in Ottawa and Calgary.

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4 Canadian dates culled from Coldplay tour (CBC)

British band Coldplay has cut four Canadian dates from its touring schedule after postponing its planned North American tour by two weeks.

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Egoyan outlines new film (The Globe and Mail)

Canadian director reveals details about next project, Seven Wonders

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Article Tools: (Snowboarding)

Max Baillargeon grew up in Quebec, sharpened his claws on all that cold French Canadian steel, recently made the move west and spent last winter taking his lumps in the Whistler backcountry. Kid is on his way.

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Not the usual dear old dads (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

Canadian novelist David Gilmour, in “The Film Club,” recalls a difficult time when his son, Jesse, then 15, was struggling in school. He strikes an unusual bargain, letting his son drop out, but only if he watches three movies a week selected by Gilmour, and steers clear of drugs.

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