CHARLOTTETOWN – She’s not the typical “Girl Next Door” you’re likely to meet.

CHARLOTTETOWN – She’s not the typical “Girl Next Door” you’re likely to meet.

Every up-and-coming filmmaker dreams of making the perfect short film, a 10-minute powerhouse of such promise that it becomes a standing invitation to lunches at the major studios and a multipicture deal. But for every short film that wins awards or acclaim at film festivals, there are thousands that go unnoticed. Every once in a while, though, there is that masterpiece that captivates the …

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Film I’ve got an obsession with silent cinema. And there are directors working today whom I genuinely admire. My favourite is Gasper Noé, the French director, who made Seul Contre Tous and Irréversible. The box set of Erich von Stroheim’s movies are astonishing.

Form-changing documentaries, Cannes Film Festival winners, and a large number of local films show the New Zealand Film Festival programme has not been affected by the lack of a major sponsor.

A few pages into “The Film Club” (Twelve, $21.99), the smart, new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM’s squeaky-clean “Andy Hardy” movies while growing up, they left little impression on him.

For more than 25 years, the Canadian troupe La La La Human Steps has been hailed as one of the world’s leading and most radical contemporary dance companies since it was founded by Moroccan-born Edouard Lock in 1980. At age 3 in 1957, Lock moved to Montreal, where he grew up and embarked on his career as a choreographer at age 20, working with several companies before striking out on his own and …

TORONTO - “Adoration,” the latest film from Toronto-based director Atom Egoyan, will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday.

Atom Egoyan’s latest film, Adoration, will have its North American preview at the Toronto International Film Festival this fall, according to the Canadian Press. The film competed at the Cannes Film Festival in France last month for the prestigious Palme d’Or. The feature is about a youth who [...]

New films that won acclaim in Cannes this spring will screen for North American audiences this fall at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Those interested in applying for a job at the Canadian National Exhibition this summer can do so by clicking here.

Film actor Jake Gyllenhaal has moved into his girlfriend Reese Witherspoon’s Los Angeles home, a source told Us Weekly.Witherspoon lives with her two children — 8-year-old Ava and 4-year-old Deacon — from her previous marriage to actor Ryan Phillippe. Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal, who co-starred in the 2007 film Rendition, have been dating for about a year.Marriage is definitely what they are …

Form-changing documentaries, Cannes Film Festival winners, and a large number of local films show the New Zealand Film Festival programme has not been affected by the lack of a major sponsor.

A foundation started by Hollywood film stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt has donated $1 million to children impacted by the war in Iraq.Usmagazine.com said the Jolie-Pitt Foundation has pledged $500,000 for school supplies and education programs for refugee children in Iraq, as well as $500,000 for U.S. children who have either lost a parent deployed in Iraq or have a parent serving there.The …

Columbia Pictures said a trailer for the latest 007 film Quantum of Solace will be seen in theaters, on television and on the Internet starting next week. The movie studio said the preview for the 22nd James Bond adventure, starring Daniel Craig as the suave British secret agent, will appear on television and on the Internet Monday, and in theaters when it is attached to Columbia Pictures’ …

Canadian film distributor Entertainment One Ltd. made some noise last year when it began buying up rivals in a string of deals to quickly bolster its size. But after spending $170-million (U.S.) on acquisitions, the company says it’s now working on a sequel.

Canadian alternative filmmaker Guy Maddin honors ‘Winnipeg’ from within his mind. Guy Maddin calls his “My Winnipeg” a “docu-fantasia,” and there’s no reason not to take him at his word.

Shannon Kinsella , 31, of Brockton, is a lifelong sports fan, particularly Red Sox baseball. So when the Brockton Rox, a member of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, came to town in 2002, she was a booster from the get-go.