Top 130 Movie List: #14 My Darling Clementine (1946, Dir: John Ford, Scr: S. Engel, W.Miller)

It was only three or four years ago that I discovered the films of John Ford, and he quickly jumped to the top of my list of favourite directors. And with six, he has the most films on my Top 130 Movie List: The Searchers, My Darling Clementine, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Stagecoach, [...]

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The Hitchhiker better than Shyamalan’s latest?

Don’t take my word for it. Watch NOW Toronto magazine film critic, Norman Wilner, as he moderates audience responses to The Hitchhiker at the June 2008 Wildsound Film Festival screening where it won the Audience Award for Best Overall Performances and Best Cinematography. (Congrats to the cast, Aleks Paunovic and Gina Chiarelli; and to James [...]

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Soundtrack of My Life #1: Tiny Dancer (Elton John)

A few weeks ago I was staying with a friend in Toronto and he had to excuse himself for a few hours over the weekend so he could create a mix CD for a dinner party. I was intrigued and he explained that there were thirteen people who were all invited to create a compilation [...]

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Filmmaking: The Difficulty in Staging Protests

The art of filmmaking is the art of creating reality: people, place, purpose. We construct the objects, the characters, the space and even the light within the frame in such way that the viewer believes there is a continuity of this world beyond the frame. And most movies that you see in theatres or [...]

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Short Film Update: Pop Switch

I have not be blogging for the last couple of months because I’m putting all of my free time into prep for my next short film, Pop Switch, written by Lucia Frangione. Its a 15 minute film is about a middle-aged man coming to terms with becoming a father in his late 40s.
My producer, Krista [...]

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