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Monthly Archives: January 2008

San Francisco Weekend

January 31, 2008

Spent the past weekend in SF.  The whole Sunday evening was wasted in the airport, couldn’t see the SAG Awards, …

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Away From Her Movie Review

January 28, 2008

Update March 4: Away From Her won 7 Genie Awards last night in Toronto, Canada.  Among them are Best Picture, Best …

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The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (2007)

January 24, 2008

Update Feb. 23: Julian Schnabel just won the Best Director Trophy and Janusz Kaminski the Best Cinematographer at the Independent Spirit Awards …

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Canadian Content at the Oscars

January 22, 2008

Ellen Page Sarah Polley Update Feb. 25: Diablo Cody won the Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars last night. To …

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Andrew Davies Interview

January 18, 2008

Thanks to a Jane Austen and film fan, I just received a link to an interview with Andrew Davis on CNN …

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Congratulations Julie Christie!

January 16, 2008

Update Jan. 28: Julie Christie has just won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for her role in Away …

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The Kite Runner: Book Into Film

January 11, 2008

The Book I read The Kite Runner last summer, and it has remained one of my favorite books. It might as …

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Globe Without Glamour

January 8, 2008

So the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has officially cancelled the 65th annual Golden Globe Award ceremony on January 13.  Instead, there will be …

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Atonement: Book Into Film

January 6, 2008

The Book Imagine my surprise as I finished Austen’s Northanger Abbey and opened up Ian McEwan’s Atonement to find this epigraph in …

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Juno (2007)

January 3, 2008

Update Feb. 23:  Juno just won the Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica today. Ellen Page won Best …

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To Read or Not To Read: Canadian Version

January 2, 2008

So here it is, the most recent Canadian statistics on book reading.  According to an Ipsos Reid survey commissioned by CanWest …

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