Friday, May 4, 2007

Tremblant Film Festival Press Conference on Monday, May 7

The Tremblant Film Festival will have its PRESS CONFERENCE on Monday, May 7 at 11:00 am at Newtown (1476 Rue Crescent, Montreal). Festival films and attending filmmakers will be announced. Expect some great surprises!

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David Lynch Retrospective

Hey there is a great happening at the "Cinema Du Parc" starting today. It's called "David Lynch Retrospective" it feature some of his short films and the latest "psycho/dreamland" drama: "Inland Empire". Here is the article in the hour for those of you who like to flex their nerves....

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Love him or Lynch him


Melora Koepke





Dern in her comeback movie within a movie

The world's most valued weirdo filmmaker fostered by the city's most precious cinema

Nothing stresses how much Montreal needs repertory cinema like the advent of a new David Lynch movie, so kudos once again to the new Cinéma du Parc for existing. Inland Empire, Lynch's latest, opens next week in Montreal in tandem with the film's release in rep cinemas across the country, and how sad would it be if there was nowhere to show it? Plus, in a brilliant brainstorm, the Parc marks the occasion with a retrospective of all Lynch's directorial work save Dune, because he didn't have final cut. This major event includes a showing of Lynch's shorts, a documentary about his work and a special presentation of Sophie Fiennes' documentary The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, in which critical theory star Slavoj Zizek presents his take on the psychoanalytically pertinent forces at work in classic movies... read more
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Thursday, May 3, 2007

View from the top, M. Tremblant

Take a look at the ride to the top of the resort

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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Independent Films


I had a bit of spare time so I decided to search the web for Indie films and interesting organizations promoting the independent films and their production. I was surprised to find many cool sites from writer guilds; WGAW Independent Film Program helping independent screenwriters increase their status and influence within the indie film industry to general resource portals, where you can find anything on the subject: indieproducer.net. In addition I stumbled on an "URL" that gives you up to date news about the industry,indiewire.com.

This is just a small attempt to startup the conversation on indie films, if you have more information about the resources related to this topic, feel free to let me know...
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