Recently added articles from Take One:
From the editor.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2005; Wise, Wyndham ... Once again Quebec is having a banner year, while English-Canadian cinema lags behind. Luc Dionne's Aurore and Jean-Marc Vallde's C.R.A.Z.Y. have been playing in Quebec to packed houses and stand a chance of turning over $5 million each at the box office. Ricardo Trogi's Horlgoe biologique ...
Double identity: David Cronenberg's a history of violence.
Sep 01, 2005; Alioff, Maurie ... In an era of independent films that are calculated attention grabbers and mainstream movies pumped up with sound and fury, it's inspiring that David Cronenberg has made a movie as gripping, intricate and flawlessly directed as A History of Violence. Cronenberg's first picture ...
Deepa Mehta: completes her celebrated elements trilogy with water.
Sep 01, 2005; Gravestock, Steve ... DEEPA MEHTA has long been one of the more controversial figures in both the Canadian and Indian film industries. One of the first women to carve out a significant career in Canadian film, and certainly the first Indo--Canadian woman to do so, Mehta has also drawn fire in both Canada and ...
How do we know what we know? Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.
Sep 01, 2005; McSorley, Tom ... "People are always interested to know what they look like when they are pretending." Leonard Cohen to Donald Brittain in Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mr. Leonard Cohen Eighteenth--century Irish philosopher George "Bishop" Berkeley would have loved the films of Atom Egoyan ....
Lost in Iceland: freezing rain, blinding sandstorms, dead sheep, erupting volcanoes and the making of Beowulf & Grendel.
Sep 01, 2005; Ord, Wendy ... Beowulf & Grendel, a feature-film adaptation of the epic 8th-century Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, is a medieval adventure that tells the blood--soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll Grendel, who is threatening the kingdom of Hrothgar, the ...
The ties that bind: Louise Archambault and Familia.
Sep 01, 2005; Wise, Wyndham ... Quebec newcomer Louise Archambault worked as a line producer on commercials, unit director and stills photographer before turning to her own film projects. Atomic sake won the Prix Jutra for best short in 2000 and was screened at festivals worldwide. Now her debut feature, Familia, has ...
Gabriella Martinelli's: Little Black Book.(PROFILE)
Sep 01, 2005; Marotti, Micol ... AT THIS YEAR'S 30th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, Martinelli and her U.K.-based partner Jeremy Thomas (Sexy Beast, The Last Emperor) are the producers of Tideland, one of the most highly anticipated films of the festival. It stars Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, The ...
Cannes Film Festival (5/11-22/05).(FESTIVAL WRAPS)
Sep 01, 2005; McSorley, Tom ... The beer is cold and it is free. The sky s a warm azure canopy. The Mediterranean, just off the end of the Canadian Pavilion's wooden deck, is that same sky's inviting blue mirror. People are herded inside to hear new Telefilm Canada boss Wayne Clarkson introduce Canada's two pre--eminent ...
Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival (5/26-29/05).(FESTIVAL WRAPS)
Sep 01, 2005; Daniels, Calvin ... It was the night for Shadow Pleasures at this year's Golden Sheaf Awards. The performing--arts film based on the works of famed author Michael Ondaatje, Shadow Pleasures took home the Golden Sheaf Award of Excellence, the highest honour of the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. It was ...
Worldwide Short Film Festival (6/14-19/05).(FESTIVAL WRAPS)
Sep 01, 2005; Gibb, Lindsay ... Bridging the wide gap between Toronto's manic film-festival season from April through to June and the beginning of the Toronto International Film Festival in September, this year's Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) proved that it is one of the best. Chris Landreth was the toast of the ...
this is a story.(SHORT TAKES)
Sep 01, 2005; McSorley, Tom ... 2005 4mins prod Picture Plant, p/d/sc/narr William D. MacGillivray, ph Kent Nason, ed Christopher Cooper; with Joseph Rutten, Morgan Salter (voice). Nova Scotia-based director William D. MacGillivray's (Life Classes, Understanding Bliss, et al) latest work is a short film as ...
Escape.(SHORT TAKES)
Sep 01, 2005; McSorley, Tom ... 2005 19mins prod Canadian Film Centre, p Lea Marin, d/sc Sean Frewer, ph Samy Inayeh, ed Gareth Jones; with Stephen Bogaert, Kimwun Perehinec, Michele Duquet. Out there in the scrubbed suburbs of Anywhere Canada, where The Adjusters Noah Render used to live, a nameless couple is ...
Gary's Touch.(SHORT TAKES)
Sep 01, 2005; McSorley, Tom ... 2005 26mins prod Independent Filmmakers Cooperative of Ottawa, p/d/sc/ph/ed Ken Takahashi. When you think of Ottawa, what comes to mind? Quiet, orderly streets, the boring bustle of bureaucrats, pampered politicians, Paul Anka? Think again. Ottawa is also a place of lonely, ...
The Scene Stealer.
Sep 01, 2005; Gibb, Lindsay ... The Scene Stealer by Warren Dunford, Cormorant Books, Toronto, 2005. 355 pages. $29.95. To crack open The Scene Stealer is more like watching a film than devouring a novel. As in many recent movies, the storyline jumps around in chronology. The book starts in the middle, jumps ...
Industry: TIFF turns 30.
Sep 01, 2005; Wise, Wyndham ... The Toronto International Film Festival, affectionately known as TIFF, turns 30 this year. To celebrate the occasion, Toronto's Media Monkey Productions, in association with the Toronto International Film Festival Group and Rogers Television, is producing Postcards from TIFF. Produced by ...
