You may best know Montreal filmmaker François Miron for his experimental shorts, which are often played on screens behind bands, or for his Juno Award-winning album cover photography for Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible . But Miron, who is also a Concordia film studies prof, has finally made his first feature, The 4th Life , which is intended as a hallucinatory, twisted lesbian sex psycho-drama about a …

It’s shameful, but I might only know one native Canadian, and he’s just an acquaintance. It’s wrong that I live so close to Kahnawake, one of the richest and most historically important native communities in Canada, but have never been.

You’d think it wouldn’t be that hard to cast a film called Young People Fucking - after all, don’t young people fuck all the time? Yet against expectations, for first-time writer director Martin Gero, the problem was never his film’s title - it was casting the thing.

John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics to the song Give Peace a Chance reportedly could sell for up to $600,000 in London next month, Christie’s auction house said.The historic document was put on the auction block by Gail Renard, a British-Canadian woman who befriended the late British singer/songwriter and his wife Yoko Ono during their 1969 anti-war bed-in in Montreal, Canada, The Daily Telegraph …

MONTREAL - The National Film Board of Canada has laid off 22 people as a result of funding concerns and a focus on new media.

The National Film Board of Canada has laid off 22 people as a result of funding concerns and a focus on new media.

During the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn premiered a little movie called Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey that they co-wrote and directed about their favorite musical genre.

McClelland & Stewart has announced that it will publish Farley Mowat’s 40th book this fall.

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has received a $3.5-million gift from a familiar face: former board member and past chair Henry Thomas Beck.

Montreal will get some unwanted national publicity this weekend, portrayed as a safe haven for terrorists. Viewers will be reminded about Ahmed Ressam , better known as the Millennium Bomber.

The actor found that stunts weren’t the main challenge of filming Get Smart; keeping a straight face was.

The National Film Board has laid off 22 people, most of them in Montreal, as it struggles to adapt to shrinking resources and a shift to new media.

Stephen Colbert is every bit as passionate about The Hockey Theme as Canadians it seems, promising to license “the most precocious Arctic treasure of all” for use in the United States.

British band Coldplay has cut four Canadian dates from its touring schedule after postponing its planned North American tour by two weeks.

The Star says that an immigration crackdown has halved the number of exotic dancers in Toronto over the last decade, fueling lap dance inflation and forcing strip club customers to make hard choices between Froot Loops for the kids and throwing twenties at naked strangers.

Lewis Hamilton took much of the morning off as a continually drying track affected lap times during the first practice session for tomorrow’s Canadian Grand Prix. But in the afternoon he was the only driver to duck below the 1min 16sec barrier as he set the fastest time of 1m 15.752s to head Robert Kubica and Kimi Raikkonen.