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Winnipeg filmmaker Guy Maddin dips a toe into mainstream fare with Rumours

Guy Maddin has built a career helming bewildering, dreamlike, avant-garde films, but the Winnipeg auteur’s new dark political comedy Rumours may…

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Celebrated Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison honoured with commemorative stamp

It’s a rainy Wednesday afternoon, and the sounds of Toronto’s torrential downpour blend with live instrumentals from various music scores…

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Cannes: Indian filmmaker wins Grand Prix

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia made history Saturday, as she became the first person from India to clinch the prestigious Grand Prix…

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Super Size Me filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dead at 53

Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee who ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of…

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Prolific ‘king of B movies’ filmmaker Roger Corman dead at 98

Low-budget cinema maestro Roger Corman, who cranked out hundreds of outrageous films over six decades and helped launch the careers…

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American author Paul Auster, prolific and experimental man of letters and filmmaker, dead at 77

Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as The New…

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Eleanor Coppola, Hearts of Darkness director and matriarch of famed filmmaker family, dead at 87

Eleanor Coppola, a writer and film director who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic…

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Halifax filmmaker prepares for Academy Awards this weekend

The 96th Academy Awards will held in Los Angeles on Sunday, and a popular East Coast filmmaker will be in…

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Debut feature from B.C. filmmaker looks at Japanese Canadian stories

As Meredith Hama-Brown’s debut feature film Seagrass made waves during its festival run last fall, the Vancouver writer-director says she heard…

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A Dene filmmaker and his ‘Cold Road’ to Indigenous representation on screen

Dene filmmaker Kelvin Redvers wants audiences for his latest movie to sit on the edges of their seats. An isolated,…

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