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Replacements' documentary Color Me Obsessed tests your faith

Replacements' documentary Color Me Obsessed tests your faith

By Gregory Adams | December 1, 2011
Color Me Obsessed features more than 120 devotees dishing on their favourite band, the Replacements.
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Catch A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt at the Vancity Theatre

Catch A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt at the Vancity Theatre

By Carolyn Ali | November 16, 2011
If you missed its Vancouver premiere last month, this week offers more opportunities to catch this documentary.
Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2011: Going Down in LA-LA Land

Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2011: Going Down in LA-LA Land

By Craig Takeuchi | August 18, 2011
This year, director Casper Andreas is back at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival with his latest feature, Going Down in LA-LA Land.
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First Pinoy Indie Film Festival brings Filipino films to Vancouver

First Pinoy Indie Film Festival brings Filipino films to Vancouver

By Craig Takeuchi | August 16, 2011
There's finally a local film festival that will showcase Filipino independent films.
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Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2011: a look back at the Queer History Project

Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2011: a look back at the Queer History Project

By Craig Takeuchi | August 15, 2011
Urban history that mostly takes place in a city's ever-shifting nightlife can easily be lost or difficult to recover. But compound that with invisibility, discrimination, and covertness, and a historian's job becomes even more challenging.
The Fantastic World of FrantiÅ¡ek Vlácil at Pacific Cinémathí¨que

The Fantastic World of FrantiÅ¡ek Vlácil at Pacific Cinémathí¨que

June 30, 2011
While his name isn’t as well-known to westerners as those of Miloš Forman and Jirí Menzel, the late František Vlácil was even more crucial to the birth of modern Czech cinema.

Vancouver Sometimes Plays Itself: Vancouver as Vancouver on screen

By Craig Takeuchi | April 10, 2011
Our city has acted in everything from Tron: Legacy to Bollywood films. Once in a blue moon, it’s been cast as itself.
Pacific Cinematheque's Oshima & Passion x 3 to aid Japan disaster victims

Pacific Cinematheque's Oshima & Passion x 3 to aid Japan disaster victims

By Mark Harris | April 5, 2011
When it comes to Japan's “New Wave” cinema, there’s only one name that really matters: Nagisa Oshima.
Head Cold: filmmaker Gamma Bak conveys life with psychosis

Head Cold: filmmaker Gamma Bak conveys life with psychosis

By Craig Takeuchi | March 31, 2011
When filmmaker Gamma Bak had her first experience of psychosis, her boyfriend told her, "It's all like a cold in the head. It'll pass." It didn't.
Vancouver as an actor: Skip Tracer and Michael Turner's "On Location" 1 and 2

Vancouver as an actor: Skip Tracer and Michael Turner's "On Location" 1 and 2

By Craig Takeuchi | March 23, 2011
Vancouver has racked up quite the extensive acting experience in feature films. Only on rare occasions has it had the chance to play itself.

Top movies in Canada, Oct. 30 to Nov. 5: Michael Jackson rules

By Craig Takeuchi | November 10, 2009
Michael Jackson ruled the international film charts in Canada for the week of October 30 to November 5.

Top movies in Canada, October 23 to 29: Trailer Park Boys gone

By Staff | November 4, 2009
Well, those bumbling Trailer Park Boys finally bumbled their way out of the Canadian top five.

Michael Jackson tops Canadian weekend box office

By Craig Takeuchi | November 2, 2009
As expected, Michael Jackon's This Is It topped the Canadian weekend box office. Meanwhile, horror films got a boost from Halloween moviegoers.

Top movies in Canada, Oct. 16-22: Law Abiding Citizen beats Wild Things

By Craig Takeuchi | October 27, 2009
More Canadians chose to see the blood-splattered Law Abiding Citizen than Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are.

Top Movies in Canada, Oct. 9-15: Trailer Park Boys knocked down, Cairo Time debuts

By Craig Takeuchi | October 21, 2009
The Trailer Park Boys were knocked out of the top spot on the domestic charts by the debut of a Quebec thriller.