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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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The 2024 Golden Globe nominations include nods for Ryan Gosling, Canadian filmmaker Celine Song

The 2024 Golden Globe Awards nominations were announced Monday by comedian Cedric the Entertainer and actor Wilmer Valderrama. Among the Canadian…

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A Vancouver soul singer shared a bill with Led Zeppelin. Filmmaker says his legacy is greater than that

On Dec. 28, 1968, hard rock pioneers Vanilla Fudge performed at Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum. Opening for them that night was…

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Toronto filmmaker Charles Officer dies at 48

Charles Officer, an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, producer and writer whose work spanned features, documentary and television, and often centred Black voices and…

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