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The World According to Monsanto
By Ken Eisner
A documentary by Marie-Monique Robin. In English and French with English subtitles. Unrated. Plays Friday to Monday, August 1 to 4, and Wednesday and Thursday, August 6 and 7, at the Vancity Theatre
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Georgia Straight Living | Movies | Television
Off-camera style
By Luisa Rino
How do you describe your home style?
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Vancouver fest fetes lives and others
By Ken Eisner
The quarter-century-marking edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival wrapped last Friday (October 13) with a gala screening of The Queen, which opens here this week, and the announcement of popular and juried prizewinners.
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The art of war
By Ian Caddell
Flags of Our Fathers' Barry Pepper got battle-ready for Clint Eastwood, who's a lot like dear old dad.
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Hopefuls fight stereotypes for Pepper-like success
By Pieta Woolley
Thousands of Lower Mainland hopefuls are working “very, very haaaaard” to break into the Hollywood big time.
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Coppola draws family into a queen's world
By Ian Caddell
Few filmmaking families have managed to be as diverse as the Coppolas. There has been a composer (Carmine Coppola), a cinematographer (Roman Coppola), a writer/director (Sofia Coppola and Francis Ford Coppola), and several actors (Talia Shire, Nicolas Cage, and Jason Schwartzman)
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Apted revisits those Brit children of 1964
By Ken Eisner
You know, that British filmmaker Michael Apted was going back every seven years to revisit the children he had first documented for the BBC in Seven Up!.
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Landscapes frame human mark on the planet
By Sarah Keenlyside
On first glance, the most striking thing about an Edward Burtynsky photograph is its beauty.
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Beach relishes retelling history
By Ian Caddell
The last time the story of Native American Ira Hayes was told by Hollywood, it starred a Jewish boy from the Bronx named Bernie Schwartz, who had changed his name to Tony Curtis.
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Marie tuned in to teen angst
By Ian Caddell
Kirsten Dunst was just 12 years old when she won a Golden Globe nomination for Interview With the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles. Then she became an international celebrity in the last days of her teens, courtesy of a costarring role in the megahit Spider-Man.
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Filmmakers look at Lennon's political legacy
By Ian Caddell
The U.S. vs. John Lennon, which opens on Friday (October 13), looks back at the impact Lennon made on the late 1960s and early 1970s through bed-ins and protest songs.
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Capote's voice vexed actor
By Sarah Keenlyside
One of the most surprising things about meeting actor Toby Jones is hearing his voice.
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Hardcore rocks to DIY spirit
By Sarah Keenlyside
The filmmakers say the pasted-together aesthetic was a conscious effort inspired by the DIY spirit that the bands brought to the music itself.
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Naked Truths
By Ken Eisner
For veteran singer-broadcaster Sook-Yin Lee, having sex wasn't the hardest part of shooting Shortbus
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Vancouver vice
By Ken Eisner
Intelligence, a new TV series, updates our tawdry past with cross-border espionage
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Seminal German director takes on a new battle
By Ken Eisner
German-language cinema may be having some kind of renaissance these days””and the 15 or so such films on display at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival suggest that it is””but it's not as if no one was trying before.
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Ten young talents light up the silver screen
By Pieta Woolley
Luck didn't land these kids on our list. In fact, the lack of it probably did. Vancouver's 10 top young film-industry types are as different from each other as DVDs are from Super8. But they're united by their fantastically hard work, the obstacles they've overcome, and their outstanding goals.
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Clarkson heads home for Men
By Ian Caddell
It has become routine for journalists to ask women over 40 why there are no film parts for women their age.
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Barrett taps emotional extremes
By Ian Caddell
In The Last Kiss, which is currently playing in Vancouver, Jenna, played by Australian actor Jacinda Barrett (Poseidon), comes after her boyfriend (Zach Braff) with a knife when he admits that he kissed another woman (Rachel Bilson).
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Jackass's Knoxville no sissy
By Steve Newton
Who's the better movie star: Humphrey Bogart because he embodied macho cool in Casablanca or Johnny Knoxville because he put on a red shirt and a blindfold and offered himself to a charging bull in Jackass: Number Two?
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Confetti lands on weddings
By Ian Caddell
There aren't a lot of laughs at the Toronto International Film Festival. At least, not many that are intentional.
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Last Kiss leads to cold feet
By Ian Caddell
Zach Braff says his generation has put off commitment as far as possible.
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Behind the probing lens
By Janet Smith
Vancouver International Film Festival documentaries focus on the unflinching work of three fearless female photographers
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Number Two hits the screen
By Steve Newton
Like 2002's Jackass: The Movie, the sequel is a plotless collection of bizarre, butt-crunching stunts, idiotic pranks, and Tom Green–style gross-out antics.
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King's Men may wield wide political influence
By Ian Caddell
In a remake of the 1949 Oscar winner All the King's Men, Penn plays Willie Stark, a governor who takes on a corrupt establishment in post– Second World War Louisiana.
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