Fantastic Four
With its upcoming Fantastic Four game, Activision gets to have its proverbial cake and eat it, too. The cake part: Activision has secured the rights to ...

Pascale Bussieres as Alys Robi in Denise Filiatrault's Ma vie en cinemascope
Compared to last year's dazzling successes, 2004 was a routine year for Quebec movies. Several films were critical and box-office successes, but none ...

Nouvelle-France
2004 142m prod Melenny Productions, Davis-Films (France), exp Antony Blakey, David Gordian, Victor Hadida, Claude Leger, Leslie Porter, Ashley Sidaway, ...

Take One's 2004 survey of Canadian features released in the GTA
TAKE ONE has been tracking Canadian features released in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) since 1994 and published its first survey in issue #10, December ...

Sin and sovereignty: the curious rise of Cinepix Inc
Perce Rock is one of the biggest tourist attractions along the Gaspe Peninsula, even when there isn't anyone having sex on it. In 1971, visitors to the 70-metre-high rock formation surely would hav

Virginia Madsen: the sideways star returns to a curious place she visited almost 20 years ago: the spotlight
With almost 60 film and TV projects to her name, Virginia Madsen, who first broke onto the scene in 1984 with Dune and Electric Dreams, is once again ...

Randy Thom
Byline: MAUREEN DRONEY A lot of people ask Randy Thom for advice about creating sound for film. That's not really surprising. Although the nine-time ...

Never Coming to a Theater Near You
Never Coming To A Theater Near You Kenneth Turan Public Affairs 250 West 57th St. #1321, NY, NY 10107 www.publicaffairsbooks.com 1586482319 ...

The politics of a political film thoughts on 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
OVER THE PAST YEAR, a stream of overtly political documentaries has been flowing from the United States into the global movie market. Leading the way ...

Directing: the greatest job in the world?
'It's a goddamned impossible way of life.' (Robbie Robertson, The Last Waltz [Martin Scorsese, 1978]) (1) 'The whole process of moviemaking is magical, ...

The mainstream alternative: demand for thought-provoking content, along with low-cost video technology, is encouraging indie storytellers
The independent film industry finishes 2004 in a strong position, with documentaries and narrative films alike scoring big with audiences and the box ...

Unlimited potential
DVD is like the snowball rolling down the mountain, gaining momentum and getting bigger with every rotation. If the rush by studios to get their popular ...

The Sea Inside
(Fine Line) Directed by Alejandro Amenabar As the follow-up to his stirring supernatural thriller and unexpected box-office smash The Others (2001), ...

Around the World in 80 Days
This movie made half the domestic box office of the other film named Around the World in 80 Days, which came out in 1956, when the average ticket price ...

Artful Dodgers
Byline: MARK A. NEWMAN Anyone who happens into the theatre complex in the base of the Worldwide Plaza in Manhattan hoping to catch a cheap screening ...