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Latin American Film Festival spotlights Brazil

By Ken Eisner

This year's program features nine titles from South America's largest nation, and you won't be disappointed by the mixed bag that includes vistas of Rio far removed from postcard clichés.

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Goal II's Kuno Becker bends it with Beckham

By Ken Eisner

In Goal II, the actor who started out in Mexico telenovelas before attracting international attention plays Santiago Muñez, a budding soccer star who gets picked to play with the galacticos of Real Madrid.

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Dreams doc bares sharp-toothed sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison

By John Lucas

Erik Nelson's documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, includes extensive interviews with the author and footage of him reading from his work, as well as talking-head chats with a few of his famous friends.

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Frozen River gets life of its own

By Ken Eisner

Smuggling immigrants from Canada is the focus of American writer-director Courtney Hunt's movie, which won the grand jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

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UBC film alumni rally to roots for program

By Craig Takeuchi

Students and graduates convinced the university to save the suspended film-production program, which will launch again in September with increased interdisciplinary learning opportunities and new faculty positions.

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Curiosity led Anna Faris to The House Bunny

By Ian Caddell

The actor says she chose Playboy bunnies as an appropriate model after looking at the options available to women who have spent their youth focusing on using their looks to their advantage.

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Clone Wars proved a galactic task for production team

By Travis Lupick

Producer Catherine Winder describes the challenges of working under budgetary and time constraints in creating an original look for the first animated Star Wars feature film.

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Star Wars bad to the Clone

By Travis Lupick

Star Wars: The Clone Wars will finally give audiences the opportunity to see George Lucas’s animated vision of a war that has been on his mind for 30 years.

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Javier Bardem finds the real in Vicky Cristina Barcelona role

By Ian Caddell

When Woody Allen was writing the part of a Spaniard who seduces two American tourists, he had Javier Bardem in mind, and the Oscar-winning actor trusted him to avoid Latin-lover stereotypes by adding layers to his character.

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Ben Stiller doesn't bungle in the jungle with Tropic Thunder

By Ian Caddell

The actor, cowriter, and director admits cast members might have felt he was a bit of a tyrant, but as an actor he has always appreciated directors who are in charge of the operation.

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Rumer Willis gets her geek on in The House Bunny

By Ian Caddell

The daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis says that she could relate to the dorky character she plays who finds it hard to fit in more than the glamorous world from which she hails.

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From Bollywood to Amal, it’s all about acting to Seema Biswas

By Mark Leiren-Young

One of Bollywood's biggest stars is fast becoming a fixture in Canadian films too, and her role in a modern-day fairy tale about a rickshaw driver and a billionaire should help cement that.

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Film Noir series deals double crossin' fun

By Jennifer Van Evra

Maybe sunshine is overrated. Maybe deep down, beach-loving Vancouverites pine for the long, gloomy nights, when daylight brings only a slightly less oppressive shade of grey, and the rain-slicked concrete perfectly matches the colourless sky.

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Jay Baruchel gives Tropic Thunder his "A" game

By Ian Caddell

The Ottawa-born, Montreal-raised actor costars with high-profile names such as Ben Stiller and Jack Black in Tropic Thunder, but all he really wants to do is make Canadian films.

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Seth Rogen keeps rolling as a stoner in Pineapple Express

By Ian Caddell

The Vancouver native stars in the weed action movie he cowrote and admits to having smoked a few joints in his time, but he isn’t too concerned about being typecast, instead preferring to keep it loose on set.

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Why women wear Woody Allen's words well

By Ian Caddell

The director says that his heart is much more in his writing when it concerns women, and there are plenty of gifted actors waiting for opportunities to work at that high level.

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Vancouver Queer Film Fest tells fairy tales

By Craig Takeuchi

In its 20th year of putting the LGBT community on-screen, the festival's history is still present and its future fascinating, as it continues to portray stories of coming out—of being bullied or beaten up, of heartbreak or undying devotion.

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James Franco makes a dope return to comedy in Pineapple Express

By Ian Caddell

LOS ANGELES - It took James Franco a decade to move from drama back to the genre that launched his career. It also took the prodding of Judd Apatow, who had shown the world that Franco could be funny, and a sacrifice, of sorts, by an old friend.

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Swing Vote takes aim at apathy in the U.S.

By Ken Eisner

When Joshua Michael Stern took his Swing Vote to Disney, he wondered if the famously conservative Mouse House was going to back a satire in which politics would be part of the mix.

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No Borders, No Limits goes beyond Akira Kurosawa

By Mark Harris

Japanese cinema doesn’t begin and end with Akira Kurosawa. Although its art-house product is second to none, the Land of the Rising Sun has never limited itself to the manufacture of celluloid masterpieces.

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Ferrell, Reilly and McKay make Step Brothers a true group effort

By Ian Caddell

LOS ANGELES—Before Judd Apatow came along, movie posters and ads would boast of “from the star of…” or at least “from the director of…”, but Apatow and the writers, actors, and coproducers he works with appear to believe that their films are collaborative efforts.

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Guy Maddin mixes fact and fantasy in My Winnipeg

By Ian Caddell

In his new docudrama, the critically acclaimed Canadian filmmaker draws on personal experiences and combines reeanactments and animated sequences with actual footage of his family to paint an honest portrait of his hometown.

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Canadian flicks get Just Buried under reputation of financial failure

By Ian Caddell

The producer, writer, and director of Just Buried describes the stigma of being a Canadian filmmaker and shares the struggles he faced in creating a nontraditional comedy that would appeal to audiences and financial backers alike.

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How The Wackness wowed Ben Kingsley

By Ken Eisner

SEATTLE—Jonathan Levine didn’t get much flak for the unusual title of his second feature, The Wackness. He did cringe, however, when it came to including it in the film itself, an irreverent comedy set in 1994 and starring Josh Peck and Olivia Thirlby as Manhattan teens caught up in drug culture and the usual growing-up stuff.

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Savage Grace hunts sordid true tale of heirs to Bakelite riches

By Janet Smith

Director Tom Kalin is not one to shy away from unspeakable acts.

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