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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Xavier Dolan</title>
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		<title>Xavier Dolan&#8217;s I KILLED MY MOTHER Snubbed: Genie Awards 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Xavier Dolan in I Killed My Mother

  POLYTECHNIQUE Leads Genie Awards 2010 
&#34;This year&#8217;s nominations reflect a national cinema that is courageous in its storytelling,&#34; said Sara Morton,  CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema &#38; Television, referring to this year&#8217;s nominees for the 2010 Genie Awards, the Canadian Oscars. &#34;They are films  created from the wealth of cultures, communities, and historical  moments that make up the Canadian identity. As the Genie Awards  celebrate its 30th anniversary, these nominees will remind us of why it  is as important as ever to celebrate and cherish the best of Canadian  film.&#34; 
One who probably doesn&#8217;t feel like either celebrating or cherishing is  20-year-old filmmaker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UP IN THE AIR, Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan Win in Vancouver</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in  Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount)

Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air won three awards at   the 10th  Vancouver   Film Critics Circle Awards, held at the Railway Club in downtown   Vancouver on Monday night. Reitman&#8217;s socially conscious comedy-drama won awards for Best Film, Best   Supporting Actress (Vera Farmiga) and Best Screenplay (Reitman and Sheldon   Turner).  In Up in the Air, George   Clooney plays a corporate-downsizing expert who spends much of his life either at airports or on airplanes.
Once again,  The   Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director prize, while Carey    Mulligan was chosen the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I KILLED MY MOTHER Wins Toronto Film Critics&#8217; Special Award</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/i-killed-my-mother-toronto-film-critics-award-877/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud in I Killed My Mother (Regent Releasing)

Xavier Dolan, whose I Killed My Mother is Canada&#8217;s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Award, has been chosen as the Toronto Film Critics Association&#8217;s  first recipient of the Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent. The honor includes a cash prize of $5,000.
 I Killed My Mother premiered at last year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival, where it won three awards. In the film, 19-year-old filmmaker Dolan plays a  gay teenager who has some serious hang-ups with his single mother (Anne Dorval). Also in the film&#8217;s cast: François Arnaud, as the young man&#8217;s boyfriend, and Suzanne Clément as his teacher.
The Quebec-based filmmaker is expected to be  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UP IN THE AIR, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth: Vancouver Film Critics Nominations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount)

Montreal-born    Jason Reitman&#8217;s comedy-drama Up in the Air is the top nominee for the 2010 Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards. Starring George Clooney as a corporate-downsizing expert, Up in the Air is in the running for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay   (Reitman and Sheldon Turner) Best Actor (Clooney) and Best Supporting Actress   (Anna Kendrick and Vera Farmiga.) 
The Hurt Locker and A Serious Man are the other two Best Film nominees. In addition to Clooney, Kendrick, and Farmiga, others in the running in the non-Canadian acting categories are Meryl Streep (Julie &#38; Julia), Carey Mulligan and Alfred Molina (An Education), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Canadian Films of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Adam Scott in Passenger Side
Toronto Festival&#8217;s Top Ten Canadian Films of 2009

Top Ten Canadian Feature Films of 2009
(in alphabetical order)



Cairo Time &#8211; Ruba Nadda
Carcasses &#8211; Denis Côté
Crackie &#8211; Sherry White
Defendor &#8211; Peter Stebbings
La Donation / The Legacy &#8211; Bernard Émond
J&#8217;ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother &#8211; Xavier Dolan
Passenger Side &#8211; Matthew Bissonnette
Polytechnique &#8211; Denis Villeneuve
The Trotsky &#8211; Jacob Tierney
The Wild Hunt &#8211; Alexandre Franchi

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Top Ten Canadian Short Films of 2008 
(in alphabetical order)


The Armoire &#8211; Jamie Travis
The Cave &#8211; Helen Haig-Brown
Danse Macabre &#8211; Pedro Pires
Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica &#8211; Cam Christiansen
Naissances &#8211; Anne Émond
Out in that Deep Blue Sea &#8211; Kazik Radwanski
Runaway &#8211; Cordell Barker
The Spine &#8211; Chris Landreth
La Vie commence &#8211; Émile Proulx-Cloutier
Vive la [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toronto Festival&#8217;s Top Ten Canadian Films of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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  Patricia Clarkson in Cairo Time (top); Joel Bissonnette, Adam Scott in Passenger Side (middle, upper); Danse Macabre by Pedro Pires (middle, lower); Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica by Cam Christiansen (bottom)

The Toronto  Film  Festival has announced the lists of the top 10 Canadian features and shorts of 2009. Among the selected features are Denis Côté&#8217;s Carcasses, Xavier Dolan&#8217;s I Killed My Mother, and Bernard Émond&#8217;s The Legacy. Shorts include Pedro Pires&#8216; Danse Macabre, Jamie Travis&#8216; The Armoire, and Kazik Radwanski&#8217;s Out in that Deep Blue Sea.
Topics include hockey&#8217;s behind-the-scenes homoerotic moments to the sound of the Rheostatics (Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica); an adulterous romance in Egypt (Cairo Time); the erratic movements of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Early Predictions &#8211; Best Foreign Language Film</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Best Foreign Language Film

 Baaria, Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy)
An autobiographical tale set in the director&#8217;s Sicilian hometown

Forever Enthralled, Chen Kaige (China)
Biopic chronicling the life  of Mei Lanfang, China&#8217;s greatest opera star.

I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan (Canada)
A young gay man has some serious issues with his mother.

A Prophet, Jacques Audiard (France)
Prison drama in which a young hood learns what it takes to reach the top of that small (and nasty) world.

The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke (Germany)
As a prelude to both World War I and World War II, a German village unexpectedly becomes the setting of numerous acts of cruelty. 


Quality (much like fairness) is in the brain of the judge. (Of course, if we&#8217;re lucky enough to have a judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I KILLED MY MOTHER d: Xavier Dolan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Waterfield</dc:creator>
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J&#8217;ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother (2009)
Direction and Screenplay: Xavier Dolan
Cast: Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément
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Xavier Dolan’s semi-autobiographical J&#8217;ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother has been getting a lot of attention, mostly because Dolan is 19 and has won three awards at Cannes for his first film. A former child actor, Dolan  spent some of his acting money to make this film about an adolescent (played by himself) who hates his mother. 
I really wanted to like I Killed My Mother because it’s Canadian and made by such a young fellow. I even thought  Dolan could be the Canadian Orson Welles! But he’s not, and I Killed My Mother [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Cannes Winners II</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Cannes 2009 Winners: Part I
Among the other Cannes festival winners at the various sidebars and competitions were:

Best short Arena (above, top), directed by João Salaviza. Arena, the only Portuguese production in competition at the festival, tells the story of a young man under house arrest. 
Xavier Dolan&#8217;s  J’ai tué ma mère / I  Killed My Mother (above, lower photo) won the Directors Fortnight best film prize. In this Canadian growing-pains tale, a 16-year-old  gay man (played by the then 19-year-old Dolan) learns something about life all the while despising his mother&#8217;s manipulative behavior and tacky taste in clothes.
Nassim Amaouche&#8217;s Adieu Gary / Farewell Gary, winner of the Critics&#8217; Week best film award, chronicles the lives of several [...]]]></description>
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