Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
“I don’t know a single woman working in my field, or any creative field, or any field at all, who cannot relate to Milicent Patrick. It’s not just her story. It’s mine, too.” -Mallory O’Meara (from The Lady From the Black Lagoon, page 15) Back in the 1990’s my friend Hill and I managed to […]
“Part of the reason the movie business was struggling throughout the 2010’s was its leaders couldn’t adjust to the fact that they were no longer the center of the pop-culture universe, around which all other media orbited. Movies still had an important place, of course, but they no longer had the first and foremost claim […]
“She would create a movie about outlaw women on the run, busting out of tedious, thwarted humdrum lives – lives like hers – for freedom that let them finally become their true selves. She imagined it all: a movie unlike any other she had ever seen, where women drove the story, maybe even got to […]
Yolande Ramsay for Curtain Up Becky Lou is the delightful and funny star of the one-woman burlesque show “Shake”. This entertaining and colourful show mixes burlesque stripping with humourous stories that bring laughs and a sexy appreciation for a woman’s body. Becky Lou is irreverent and self-deprecating with an endearing effect. Her dances are interspersed […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “When you get enough power in the movie business, you get damn near anything you want. (Which is one of the things wrong with the movie business.)” -Burt Reynolds (from But Enough About Me) Growing up in Park Extension in the ‘70’s the coolest car one could have […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtians Up! “’Illeana, your life is like a movie.’ I hear that all the time – so much so that I finally accepted it. My life is like a movie! But so is yours. The greatest compliment I can give myself or anyone reading this is to say, You are the […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “I often say to students and audiences that indie producing is a horrible job, but a wonderful life.” -Ted Hope Ted Hope has spent more than a quarter century producing some of the most acclaimed movies of our times, with titles like In the Bedroom, American Splendor, The […]
by Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “You taste bottom in this business. When you fail, you pick yourself up and get yourself back, whether with one movie or two. It’s not over, just keep going.” -Harvey Weinstein Growing up the movies were one of the few things my father, mother, brother and I did […]
“If they don’t know how to sell it, they won’t make it.” -Lynda Obst By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! If you have ever wondered why Hollywood is currently churning out unwatchable remakes and unoriginal schlock based on obscure comic books or board games, I have a book for you. Sleepless in Hollywood: Tales […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up Hollywood has long been divided into different “eras” or “ages” often referred to as “Golden” or “Great.” It is probably Hollywood itself that created those names in order to sell movie tickets and create interest in and increase the value of film their vast film vaults. I came of […]