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A record-breaking four Manitoba-produced features were given a place at the table at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, but only three are actually set in Winnipeg. Rumours, a satire from Winnipeggers Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, is set in Germany and was filmed in Hungary. Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language is set in Winnipeg, but an…
Two Winnipeg-spawned filmmakers who have both offered up surreal visions of the Prairie city — albeit almost 20 years apart — talked to a Toronto International Film Festival crowd this week about the reception to their latest movies and what it’s like to try to present Winnipeg to the world in film. Guy Maddin and Matthew Rankin…
A non-profit organization that runs a much-loved movie theatre in Toronto has signed a new five-year lease with its landlords to keep the cinema in business, both parties announced on Tuesday. The Revue Film Society and Danny and Letty Mullin, owners of the building, announced the lease agreement in a news release on Tuesday, saying they…
In the last decade or so, cinema and entertainment have witnessed tectonic shifts not only in plots but also in narrative, tone, representation and perspectives. From the #metoo movement bringing predators to accountability like never before, to cinema recognizing its issues with whitewashing, stereotyping and stifling racial representation, movies and TV have undergone a tumultuous…
