Here are some Montreal arts and culture highlights for February 2017: MUSEUMS The blockbuster exhibition Chagall: Colour and Music at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts features some 500 works and documents—paintings, collages, watercolours, sculptures, stained glass windows and ceramics—which show how the aesthetic and artistic world of famed Russian-French artist Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is imbued with […]
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The $11 Billion Year by Anne Thompson (Newmarket Press, $33.50)
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 […]
Lee Marvin Point Blank
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up In 1977 my mother, my brother and I spent the entire summer in Greece. One quiet, warm night in a city called Tripolis she took us to a local cinematorium that showed a different old American movie every night. Upon entering the theatre we discovered why […]
Curtains up on….Weekend Viewing. Overlooked by the Oscars. By Joseph Rossi
On February 24th Hollywood will vote for who they think gives the best performances of the year. But every so often there are a few that never even make it to the ceremony. They give amazing performances that somehow never register. Here are three movies that are available for home viewing that contain three amazing […]

