Arts & Culture

This land is FOODLAND

By
Benjamin Miller
Winnipegger Adam Smoluk’s second feature FOODLAND opens tomorrow at Winnipeg Cinematheque. The film, written and directed by Smoluk and produced by Juliette Hagopian, takes place in South Winnipeg and was produced through the National...
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Rolling with Ball

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Benjamin Miller
Jonathan Ball is a writer, a filmmaker and scholar, but mostly, he’s a writer. The author of two quite successful recent books, Ex Machina and Clockfire and innumerable other things, he teaches writing at...
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Ad Infinitum

By
Benjamin Miller
Starting Dec. 1, the Winnipeg Art Gallery will be screening the winners of the 2010 Cannes Lions festival, which took place June 20-26, 2010. The Screen Advertising World Association created the festival in...
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Wind ensemble time

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Benjamin Miller
A wind ensemble is a curious thing. According to Fraser Linklater, director of the University of Manitoba Wind Ensemble, the wind band creates an opportunity for listeners to hear familiar compositions in a different...
Arts & Culture

WAFF it up

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Benjamin Miller
Since its creation nine years ago, the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF) has come to incorporate films with many themes besides the aboriginal issues it was created to address. The festival was created by...
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Go Greenaway

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Benjamin Miller
Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, Black Swan, will be released next week on Dec. 3. The trailer promises plenty of symbolism and Gothic compositions, elements most filmmakers employ as means to an end, a moral...
Arts & Culture

Living in harmony

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Benjamin Miller
Among the opera personalities in town for Manitoba Opera’s production of Puccini’s famous Tosca, are husband and wife Richard Margison and Valerie Kuinka — the production’s tenor and director, respectively. Margison, who plays Cavaradossi...
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