Knowing: not just another disaster film By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor
March 18, 2009 The newest film in doomsday scenarios, Knowing, stars Nicolas Cage as John Koestler, a professor who discovers that the contents of a 50-year-old time capsule unearthed at his son’s elementary school contains predictions of the future, hidden in code.  Some of the predictions, including the death of Koestler’s wife, have already come true.
Golden Globe-nominated actress Rose Byrne stars opposite Cage as Diana Wayland, the daughter of the girl who wrote down the predictions in 1958.
Along with Wayland, Koestler sets out to unscramble the numeric code and save as many people as he can.
Director Alex Proyas, best known for directing The Crow, Dark City, and I Robot, prefers science fiction to fantasy, something which he strives to work toward in his movies.
“As much as I enjoy fantasy films, from my own perspective science fiction is a little bit more grounded in the rules of the real world and I like the confines of that world,” Proyas explained. >> | The art of collaboration: theory meets practice for Mirage By Mike Laverty
Lance Writer March 18, 2009 “Filmmaking comes down to networking,” says independent filmmaker Mitch Cappe. “That’s the essence of any production.”
 The Lance spoke with Cappe and his director of photography Eric Boucher about their collaboration on an ongoing project, Mirage, which is a short film about a man that goes through an emotional and spiritual transformation by experiencing amnesia-driven flashbacks.
Cappe is completing an independent study with the Odette School of Business, under Professor Vincent Georgie, to address what he perceives as a lack of connection between the creation and marketing of a film.
Cappe has learned how to set up a premiere, develop a marketing plan, operate a film office, and acquire investors and donations. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Ford Pier talks vinyl albums and rock shows By Lindsey Rivait
Arts Editor March 18, 2009 Canadian singer-songwriter Ford Pier is a musical jack of all trades.  Besides working alongside such names as Neko Case, Carolyn Mark, and Veda Hille, Pier is a theatre actor and chamber music composer.
Pier headed across the country to perform Dave Bidini’s (of Rheostatics fame) “5-Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica” with Calgary’s One Yellow Rabbit theatre company.
Joining Pier in his Ford Pier Vengeance Trio tour is Bidini and fellow Rhetostatic member Martin Tielli.
New this month from Pier is his full-length album, Adventurism, the second part of his 2007 EP, Organ Farming.
Adventurism was recorded in the winter of 2006-2007, at the same time as Organ Farming.
“The records I had done previously were sort of ambitious, weeping, heavily textured things, which took a lot of care and involved a cast of thousands. The idea behind these records is that I would just go into the studio with my live band and bang them out as quickly as possible, but it didn’t turn out that way,” Pier recalled.
This time around, he played all the instruments on Adventurism except the drums. >> |
