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From the editor.(Editorial)
September 1, 2005... Once again Quebec is having a banner year, while English-Canadian cinema lags behind. Luc Dionne's Aurore and Jean-Marc Vallde's C.R.A.Z.Y. have been playing in Quebec to packed houses and stand a chance of turning over $5 million each at the box office. Ricardo Trogi's Horlgoe biologique...

Double identity: David Cronenberg's a history of violence.
September 1, 2005... In an era of independent films that are calculated attention grabbers and mainstream movies pumped up with sound and fury, it's inspiring that David Cronenberg has made a movie as gripping, intricate and flawlessly directed as A History of Violence. Cronenberg's first picture since...

Deepa Mehta: completes her celebrated elements trilogy with water.
September 1, 2005... DEEPA MEHTA has long been one of the more controversial figures in both the Canadian and Indian film industries. One of the first women to carve out a significant career in Canadian film, and certainly the first Indo--Canadian woman to do so, Mehta has also drawn fire in both Canada and India...

How do we know what we know? Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies.
September 1, 2005... "People are always interested to know what they look like when they are pretending." Leonard Cohen to Donald Brittain in Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen Eighteenth--century Irish philosopher George "Bishop" Berkeley would have loved the films of Atom Egoyan. Berkeley's famous...

Lost in Iceland: freezing rain, blinding sandstorms, dead sheep, erupting volcanoes and the making of Beowulf & Grendel.
September 1, 2005... Beowulf & Grendel, a feature-film adaptation of the epic 8th-century Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, is a medieval adventure that tells the blood--soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll Grendel, who is threatening the kingdom of Hrothgar, the well--respected...