In the last decade, Jung has been one of the best examples of how to have Asian-Canadian representation on TV without resorting to stereotypes for entertainment. In 2012, the New Brunswickborn performer made her debut on the Great White Way in fellow Canadian and former Stratford Festival artistic director Des McAnuffs revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, where she starred as Mary Magdalene. The actress told ET Canada that she'd "love" to be involved in a movie, if it was done in the. Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for Spotlight, (New Line Cinema/Columbia Pictures/Plan B Entertainment). Its a parody of reality TV, a docu-drama about seeking human connection, a satire of capitalism and the inherent moral relativism it brews. What made it even better was that BoJack himself was voiced by Toronto native Will Arnett, who brought serious weight to a role that necessitated it. her seven evil exes including, fun fact, the future Captain America (Chris Evans). While in Arkansas, Nathan starts seeing an escort named Maci. You look like Cher, she said to me into the microphone from the very front of the stage, the height of which added an easy three to four feet onto an already impressive figure. The launch video has to be seen to be believed. And in this age of trying too hard, billionaire greed, late capitalism and its contribution to environmental crisis, what message could be more important than that? 'Schitt's Creek' actor Dan Levy recently discussed rumors about his upcoming appearance in 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania'. Prisons are terrifying its hard for me to even watch the caricatured version you see in Orange is the New Black. While the cast of Kims Convenience gives Canada a comedic look at one familys life, actor Manny Jacinto plays one of the many characters navigating the afterlife on the sitcom The Good Place. Written by Irene Sankoff and David Hein, the musical Come From Away is set in Gander, N.L., in the days following the Sept. 11 attacks, when 38 planes containing nearly 7,000 passengers were forced to land as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon (in which Canada helped ensure air traffic was cleared from U.S. airspace). Tatiana Maslany, best known for the clone thriller "Orphan Black," joins the Marvel universe with "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.". But the 2010s truly belonged to Alanis Obomsawin, who at age 87 continues to produce films in partnership with the NFB. Here are 10 Canadians who couldnt help but kill it on the Great White Way this decade. To protect and promote its culture, Quebec projects have also, on average, been better funded and have gone through longer gestation periods than projects in the rest of the country. That scene where a doozy of a dirt cloud spoils a baseball game? According to the thread, he tried to jump-start her car, and when that failed, he called a tow truck and drove the woman home, giving her his number and telling her to call him if she needed anything. By my count, Canadians were nominated for 72 Academy Awards in the 2010s, which is nothing to be sorry about. Fan theories about the control that her late husband and manager Ren Anglil had over her career abound. The series of photos, overlaid with her paintings and other manipulations, celebrate the North and make it feel romantic while also pointing to climate change, industrial colonization and the parts of our natural world that are going to disappear. (So youre welcome, and congrats to us all.) Xavier Dolan is hot off of proving hes no one-hit wonder with his sophomore feature Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats), the stylish followup to his sensational debut Jai tu ma mre (I Killed My Mother). Other notable filming locations include Chinatown and Gastown. There will never be a large audience for marginalized art if arts institutions, publishers and galleries dont financially back that art, exposing our work to Canadians on a large scale and thus creating an audience. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre opens its 40th season. (In unrelated news, space seems terrifying. Instead, I like to think, we all just run together. Nope. With the help of 5,000 volunteers, the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games opened to much fanfare and only slight technical setbacks like when one of four pillars failed to rise from the stadium floor to surround the cauldron housing the Olympic flame. From 2013 to 2017, she embodied over a dozen clones on the sci-fi series "Orphan Black," and won an Emmy for it Keanu Reeves may be loved by the internet, but for some fans, he deserves more than some tweets singing his praises. Its the second half of Betroffenheit, though, that elevates it to genius. Speaking of la belle province, its played quite the role in the plots of this decades most zeitgeisty drama series, including the arguable reigning champ in that regard: HBOs Succession. Attention turned to filmmakers like Cape Breton Island, N.S.s Ashley McKenzie, compared to Robert Bresson by The New Yorkers Richard Brody; Toronto writer-director Stella Meghie, who was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2017 for the screenplay for her first feature Jean of the Joneses; filmmaker Joyce Wong, who took over a strip mall in Torontos North York area in Wexford Plaza, a film that could arguably be called the mumblecore answer to Rashomon; dramatic-comedy filmmaker Molly McGlynn, Canadas answer to Nicole Holofcener; hybrid docudrama artist Heather Young, who won the FIPRESCI Prize for her first feature, Murmur, this year; and discursive documentary rock star Sofia Bohdanowicz, whose lovely collaborations with actor/filmmaker Deragh Campbell deserve their own miniature chapbook. CNN called him a national treasure because of it, and he further cemented his status as the internets wholesome boyfriend. audiences said goodbye to the cast of "Schitt's Creek" on Tuesday with the series finale. about love and the lies we tell ourselves. In the article, the gallerys collection gets a shoutout, but its world-class modernist architecture is described as a draw, too. That I would be good even if I did nothing, she sang. We invite you to close out your own decade by taking a little pride in what your fellow Canadians have accomplished in the 2010s. While there are artists who emerged from the wreckage of these schools, I mourn the loss of the artists who may have been if theyd had the support, and the Indigenous artistic movements that could have flourished if only Canada hadnt marked our nations for destruction. I was immediately taken back to moments when I was a child and my parents probably wanted to flick me on the head for doing something trivial in public (Asian kid problems). Taylor Russell makes waves (eh?) With a few small exceptions, everything was shot in Alberta and B.C., and to capture those Rocky Mountain vistas, cinematographer Emmanuel Chivo Lubezki used nothing but natural light. It was a triumphant moment of international recognition for Canadian television so triumphant that its easy to forget that at the same awards show only five years prior, Billy Eichner was screaming TATIANA MASLANY WAS SNUBBED!! Say hello to art, culture and a metric truckload of eye candy in our newsletter. her squad of superstars). She ended the aughts like she ended the 90s: telling the world how much being a mother was her real calling. Queer Eyes Antoni Porowski talks about how much he loves TV host, author, restaurateur and Iron Chef America winner Chuck Hughes. But starting with The Witch in 2015, another trend emerged. Young plays the man who starts the show in the corner. Swiss Chalet, the Ottawa Senators and the SNC-Lavalin scandal are all also mentioned (seriously). The journey begins near one of Edmontons favourite landmarks: the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald. Guillaume Ct releases Lost In Motion on YouTube. Jan Versweyveld After all, Baby was a joy! From Monkman to Margaret (Atwood), Bieber to ballet, Keanu to Come from Away, CBC Arts presents an unapologetic celebration of a decade of outsized achievement. During her rise, her voice was as powerful as her bad taste (or that of her entourage), and she was dismissed as the most bland person on the stage of 1998s VH1 Divas Live concert. It reminded me of Sam Shepard.) From there, Nathans game plan explodes. Glass walls, etched in the pattern of a mashrabiya screen (a common feature in Arabic architecture), cast latticed shadows when the light is just right. So a new day came: Dion would perform every night on the same stage, in the same city, surrounded by dancers, acrobats, video screens and even a scary mime in white face paint. Carly Rae Jepsen releases Call Me Maybe. Somewhere, Do They Know Its Christmas weeps. I cannot think of a better way to end this decade than with the promise of her musical return. The solution: spend nearly six hours analyzing late-night interviews and write the perfect story. And sunlight animates the structures features both inside and out. Within the last decade, the entertainment industry has made wonderful yet long overdue strides in bringing attention to and representing Asian voices (thank you #OscarsSoWhite and Crazy Rich Asians). Nathan, of course, manufactures a few bizarre schemes in the hunt for information. This decade alone, she produced six feature-long documentaries and a short film serving as a powerful inspiration for Canadian women to keep going, even when it feels like the hardest thing in the world. They have successfully put their indomitable signature on each and every project. He may be the internets boyfriend, but who knew he was also our greatest philosopher? This is the question audiences asked so much that Avatar surpassed Titanics box office record in 41 days to become the highest grossing film of all time (earning roughly $2.79 billion US) at least until Avengers: Endgame stole the crown this summer. If NFY has a fourth wall, this was the first scam to smash it. Reeves and his fellow passengers were on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Burbank, Calif. when their plane had to make an emergency landing in Bakersfield over 160 kilometres away from their destination. In addition to being set in Toronto, the writer-director herself is Canadian and delivered an acceptance speech that burgeoning artists need to hear. I like the Group of Seven as much as the next guy, and this is an affirmation of Canadian history blah blah blah and lakes and mountains blah blah good for Lawren Harris! In October 2013, Clinton, Ont.s Alice Munro earned the Nobel Prize in Literature, making her the first Canadian and 13th woman to do so. He kicked off the 2010s by choreographing the Broadway production of The Addams Family and went on to work on Summer: The Donna Summer Musical in 2018. She pushed and challenged me to be a smarter, more economical filmmaker in the most caring, collaborative way. Those who are worthy are scooped up to heaven, while unworthy souls are doomed to spend an eternity in hell. Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is the genius who convinced Dion to sing the theme song for Deadpool 2. It takes time and money to develop writers and filmmakers, and it takes bold greenlighting decisions to birth projects that can cut through the noise. 2015 ended on a cultural high note after Justin Bieber, The Weeknd and Drake had banner years, dominating the Billboard charts. And in the 2010s, it was more of the same gone supernova. In every episode, clients react with a moment or two of slack-jawed silence and then, they invariably let him at it. Her Disney Plus series, which ends its first season this week, found ways to combine comedy with superhero romance. Though there are many, many examples Id be happy to vouch for (justice for the criminally underrated Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and The Night Before, please), the pinnacle of Rogens decade is his greatest collaboration with childhood BFF Evan Goldberg: 2013s This Is the End, which they wrote, directed, produced and acted in (though Goldberg just made a cameo). Tatiana Maslany has revealed that guest starring in Parks and Recreation was "the scariest thing" that she has ever done. The islands rugged natural beauty is an obvious part of the draw, what with its promise of whale (and iceberg) watching by day and northern lights chasing by night. Its rare for a TV series to successfully depict what its like to feel hopeless, depressed, anxious or overwhelmed, sometimes all at once. Grimess fourth full-length studio album blasted her previous incarnations away to create a space so uninhabitable, so comfortable, so off-putting and so compelling that Claire Bouchers reputation as an artist fixated on her/the future felt permanent. ), The inaugural Canadian Screen Awards arrive. Where theres a loophole, theres a way. Once upon a time, your boomer aunt wasnt obsessed with building her personal brand on Instagram but social medias defined the decade, and as a result, weve all learned to sell ourselves (or at least feel very worried if we arent). And it was so easy to sing and dance to, and as a result, easier still to defend to naysayers whose problems with the song seemed rooted in cynicism and bitterness. Canadian drag much like much Canadian pop culture has often occupied a smaller sibling position next to the general epicentre that is the United States. (Float on down to 450 Pape Avenue if you dare to see it in person. Elliot Page is living proof of that. And he didnt just come out: making good on the promise of that speech, he spent the rest of the decade using his celebrity to amplify LGBTQ stories and other LGBTQ artists. After premiering on Netflix in August, the dark comedy drew attention for its biting humour and social commentary on the ways we frame success and community. (See: Arkells, The Sheepdogs.) I like to picture him in it now, surveying his legacy (this artist was also my dear friend). They also announced in their 2016-2021 Strategic Plan that supporting Indigenous arts would be a key priority. But in 2010, it felt brand new and newer still for Canada, a nation thats global musical offerings at the time felt far removed from the majesty of a young pop singer whod used the internet to earn the attention of Usher and, subsequently, the audiences Usher had placed him in front of. The period language is alien. In 2017, I met Sandra Oh when I interviewed her at TIFF, and we hugged after I told her that Greys Anatomy got me through college. And putting aside quacks like Egon Spengler, the science is on my side. Although Meghie has been working on a wide variety of projects across film and television, they all share a common thread: messy, modern and creative Black female characters lead the narrative. A smile crept across Colberts face he was left speechless. By playing atypical Asians, both Liu and Jacinto have moved beyond being viewed as Asian actors because at the end of the day, they simply provide good comedy, showing that when actors are cast beyond racial profiles, we have more inclusive and positively entertaining TV. Whatever I had done resonated with the entire world and the attention was like sunlight on my soul., The plan: Turn the job of moving into Americas next fitness craze.. But after basking in the attention of 10 women hired off Craigslist, Nathan calls off the ruse. And theres something extremely 2010s about all of it. He later wrote and starred in a one-man cabaret at the 2019 Toronto Fringe Festival called Boy Falls From the Sky, which detailed his experience during that production. Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. This fall, the Guardian crowned Betroffenheit the best dance show of the 21st century so far. Only two years after directing Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon in Wild, Jean-Marc Valle became an even bigger mainstream sensation after the premiere and success of Big Little Lies, the HBO adaptation of the 2014 novel by Liane Moriarty. Sympathy for Reeves started pouring in. A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on May 2, 2017 at 8:32am PDT. In 2016, Page produced and hosted the Viceland documentary series Gaycation, which explores LGBTQ cultures around the world. Is he accepting reality or holding on to his illusions, content to replay the memories of an old romance? In Canada, its been one big show where everyone, with the right amount of hard work and determination, can all come together to perform greatness. By tailoring her persona to different cultures America, Quebec, France, Japan she IS the epitome of an international star. But despite her global success, Dion was never cool. And when movie-goers gambled on something fresh, they chose sci-fi dark and puzzling but still explosion-packed sci-fi, like Christopher Nolans Inception.
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