Posts from — June 2008

Arulanantham Suresh Joachim is a Canadian of Sri Lankan Tamil ancestry and has broken 33 world records. He does these to benefit underprivileged children of the world.Some of his records include ironing clothes non-stop for 55 hours and 5 minutes. Joachim traveled 225.44 km, up and down escalators at the Westfield Burwood Shopping Centre, Burwood, New South Wales, Australia. Suresh Joachim is …

The Floating World as photo spread: Anna Tsuchiya in “Sakuran,” part of a film festival at the Japan Society.

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In two years, a suitcase-sized telescope will boldly soar into space on a mission to detect crashing asteroids before it’s too late

In two years, a suitcase-sized telescope will boldly soar into space on a mission to detect crashing asteroids before it’s too late

Pity poor Guy Maddin’s mother. The Canadian director’s last film, “Brand Upon the Brain,” featured a psychotic, domineering mother who spied on her children from atop an isolated lighthouse. In his newest one, “My Winnipeg,” an unhinged, utterly delightful “documentary” about his home town, his o…

ALAMOGORDO — Canadians came to Holloman Air Force Base this week to film documentary segments about the F-22A Raptor and the QF-4 drone for Discovery Channel Canada’s “Daily Planet” show.

Koptor by Canadian drummer Kevin Brow is in some ways similar to film noir— at times overcast, others times bursts of vividness, flowing in music that is stylistically intriguing.

“Juno Has a Nervous Breakdown” might be the best way to describe Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald’s “The Tracey Fragments,” a dysfunctional family…

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’ …