Director, author and Winnipegger Guy Maddin presides gloomily over his personal table hockey set on the cover of the May 7 - 13 issue of Eye Weekly. The contents of the magazine reveal an exclusive excerpt of the lavishly annotated film script from Maddin's new book, My Winnipeg (a companion to his award-winning film).
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and This Is Not A Reading Series launch My Winnipeg (the book companion to his film of the same name) with Attack of the Winnipeg Hockey Moms. Maddin will first introduce clips of his favourite film mothers and then compete in a table hockey tournament with celebrity guests!
Uptown's Aaron Graham discusses the range of films to be introduced by Mike Hoolboom at the Winnipeg Cinematheque for the launch of Practical Dreamers (a collection of interviews) on February 20, and in his presentation of the Cinema Lounge the following night.
The nominees for the 29th Genie Awards, Canada's highest honour for film, have been announced, and Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg has been nominated for 'Best Documentary.'
Maddin's film shares the Genie spotlight with other Canadian films like Up the Yangtze, a movie about young people ... um ... fornicating ... and Passchendale (starring the mountie from Due South).
Filmmaker and author Mike Hoolboom introduces two Canadian films, View from the Other Side of the Falls (John Price) and Up to the South (Jayce Salloum) at the Winnipeg Film Group's Cinema Lounge. The evening begins at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 21. Visit the event page for more details.
Coach House will, as of February 14, offer free digital downloads with the purchase of any print edition (provided, of course, the book currently exists in e-format). You buy one of our print books, the electronic book is yours for the taking.
Sounds great, but how does it work? One of two ways:
Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington is this year’s recipient of the Robert R. Reid lifetime achievement award for excellence in book art. The award is given annually by the Alcuin Society, a non-profit dedicated to preserving and celebrating Canadian contributions to print culture.
Previous Robert R. Reid recipients include former Coach House typesetter and designer Glenn Goluska.
In a two-part interview with Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington, Nigel Beale, from the Biblio File podcast, delves into the intriguing combination of factors that inspired Bevington's passion for print culture and took Coach House to the forefront of Canadian book design.
The interview is both a journey through the history of technologies and typefaces, as well as an advice manual for collectors seeking rare pieces of Canadiana.
