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Jazzfest Kickoff with double bill of Oscar and Chasing Trane at Cinema Du Parc with Oliver Jones in person.

Canada’s greatest repertoire cinema hosted a double feature kick off to this year’s Montreal Jazzfest. The main film was Chasing Trane a documentary on legendary jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane. The film is directed by John Scheinfeld, best known for his documentary the People vs John Lennon. The first film of the night was, Oscar, about […]

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Curtains Up on Life Itself

by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up!  (@AKessaris) I first heard of Roger Ebert, or more accurately Sneak Previews (the PBS movie-review show he co-hosted with Gene Siskel), thanks to Mr. Eccles, my Grade Six teacher at Barclay Elementary who spoke of the show (broadcast locally on Vermont-ETV), often in class.  From the first time I saw […]