Crushingly, Richard Wagamese passed away in March of that year. I, along with all of her truest fans, have been waiting seven years for this moment. Kims Convenience has further brought a refreshingly clever and funny perspective to Canadian television by showcasing the experiences of a working-class immigrant family. And in a thoroughly meta epiphany, Nathan discovers the effect his TV cameras have on people. And I loved every minute of iteven if I had no idea who the fuck she was. Tina Feys NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, was obsessed with Canada since it premiered in 2006 (which may or may not have had something to do with Canada-born executive producer Lorne Michaels). ), A year into the Trump presidency, as pop culture was increasingly reflecting the social #issues of the moment, Guillermo del Toros The Shape of Water told a story just as critical of the worlds various injustices and systemic ickiness but it served it up as a Cold War fairy tale. largely in the Vancouver area, where fans were known to mob sets (and sign up for location tours). Martin is currently working on musical adaptations of The Princess Bride and Night at the Museum, a sequel to The Drowsy Chaperone, as well as the Netflix film adaptation of The Prom starring Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. It was inevitable. Considering the vastness of YouTube, it was a small miracle that the Ben Shiriniandirected short film Lost In Motion earned millions of views and went on to spark hope in anyone working in the arts that theres life in digital distribution. READ. Isnt it ironic, then, that one of Canadas biggest superstars has spent this fame-monster decade being mostly invisible? Women dominated at this years Governor Generals Literary Awards, with winners including: Joan Thomas for fiction (Five Wives); Gwen Benaway for poetry, the first trans woman to take the prize (Holy Wild); Erin Bow for young peoples literature (Stand on the Sky); and CBC Artss very own Amanda Parris for drama (Other Side of the Game), which should incite serious chants of HELL, YES! from all of us. The bar may be low, but Reeves just keeps raising it. Rachel McAdams gets an Oscar nomination for Spotlight, (New Line Cinema/Columbia Pictures/Plan B Entertainment). Girls. After Arcade Fire stunned the masses by winning Album of the Year for The Suburbs, the internet erupted with repeated cries of Who the hell are Arcade Fire? And all three of those were shot in B.C. Before landing the role of Alexis Rose in Schitt's Creek, she was in consideration of quitting acting. And rewatching NFY, nothings more important or flexible than Nathans understanding of the T-word. Patriotism and pride come into play, and inevitably, questions are raised around what it means to be Canadian and make Canadian content. For anyone who doubted whether the CBCs Peter Mansbridge (or Uncle Peter, as he deserves to be called) would find his way into the Disney canon: how dare you/I wont forget it. Joining the MCU, while already being such a vocal advocate for Asian representation, gives him a larger platform to spread the message of inclusion. And while the subconscious-hopping takes the action to sets all over the world, from England to Morocco to Los Angeles, the movies big final action sequence a ski chase straight out of James Bond was shot in Alberta. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World hits cinemas in all its Toronto-set glory. What is more heartening is their relatively recent acknowledgment of the role Indigenous art has played and continues to play in historical and contemporary culture. After many rumors and delays, Cline Dion closes the 2010s by launching her most hyped album in decades, Courage. Sarah Manning and her many clones make their debut in Orphan Black. And when Bullock was asked afterward if she knew of any potential matches for the then-bachelor, her reply came quickly: "He doesn't need anybody's help. During her time on the show, Maslany miraculously made time to act in other projects, with a focus on indie films. Indigenous artists have always created incredible work, from the blankets Salish weavers constructed from goat hair and woolly dog hair to the intricate carvings made by Inuit sculptors from bones and antlers to Haudenosaunee raised beadwork. Jan Versweyveld Ren-Charles, the couples first son, was born on Jan. 25, 2001. The true story has been heralded as a reminder of human kindness and the way we tend to rally together even in times of fear, anger and tragedy. Its trickier still when it comes to Quebec filmmakers. So how can I argue that Alanis matters as much now, at the end of this decade, as she did in the 90s? Yes, there was controversy surrounding Disneys live-action Aladdin (see: whether or not Will Smiths Genie should have been blue) but regardless of anyones feelings about Disneys approach to remaking animated classics, the casting of Toronto-dwelling Mena Massoud as Aladdin was something to celebrate. The song performed best in Furtados homeland, failing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. Less than three months later, her final film, Trigger, was the inaugural public screening at the shiny new TIFF Bell Lightbox and earned rave reviews thanks to textured dialogue, director Bruce McDonalds rich storytelling and Wrights compelling performance that further emphasized what a loss her death was and how unfair life can be. 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. Ill never forget the night I first saw Brooke Lynn Hytes. This decade, Canada established itself as a gold mine for internationally renowned music. Three of the five premiered in the 2010s: Eclipse and Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2. 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. She had been rumored to have been dating Hines since 2020 and told Colbert that he was a great guy. Anne T. Donahue is a writer, person and author of Nobody Cares: Essays, and her favourite song is Al Pacino's "Dunkaccino" commercial. Artist and educator Jason Baerg discusses the impact abstract artist Alex Janvier has had on the art world in the past 10 years. If its successful, hell make a hero out of a stranger: a random dude (Corey Calderwood) who lets Nathan assume his identity and, you know, carry out the plot. Somewhere, Do They Know Its Christmas weeps. How lucky are we to be entering our fourth decade in knowing Alanis? The concept suggests an opening flower. Revolving around the women of Monterey, Calif.'s upper crust, the show uncovers the backstories and hidden truths of each character, ending its first season in a culmination of events that creates an impenetrable bond (not that Im about to spoil it). Take, for example, Lius character Jung the furthest thing from a stereotypically academically-inclined and parent-pleasing Asian son. Discussing homegrown artists who break out internationally is always tricky. I would get to know this person, work with them sometimes on that very stage. (Editors note: Annes suggestion is unethical and also impossible please do not pay her.) In a world where many rebel against gender through drag entertainment, those of us labelled alternative essentially rebel against that rebellion. The film was actually shot in the middle of the previous decade and was supposed to come out in 2005, but a brutal legal battle between Lonergan and the films distributor delayed things and ultimately led to a very limited release. Heres one reason: her silence is golden. The rest of Canada is arguably more culturally open than Quebec (Im looking at you, Bill 21) but has yet to truly tap into its multitude of storytelling options and voices. Kelly Richardsons Mariner 9 opens at Spanish City in Whitley Bay, England, Kelly Richardson Mariner 9 (Colin Davison). In 2015, he produced and starred in Freeheld, a docudrama based on the story of a lesbian police officers fight for relationship recognition after her partner is diagnosed with cancer. Psyched as many of us may have been to ring in Canadas 150th, we also know that the land that makes up Canada is much older than that and belongs to Indigenous communities that our government has repeatedly tried to annihilate. Nathan visits real entrepreneurs. Thats why Cree artist Kent Monkmans Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience art exhibit was so crucial. Montreal chef Chuck Hughes wins Iron Chef America. There are no jade eggs involved, no sauna suits just a workout plan entirely focused on hauling boxes and furniture. 1 song of the summer, the collaboration between Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber morphed from an earworm into a straight-up sensation, warming the hearts of even the most jaded and lapsed Belieber (even if Justin did forget the Spanish lyrics to his own song while attempting to sing it live). Because the idea isnt bonkers enough, the first audience loves it. A smile crept across Colberts face he was left speechless. On Valentine's Day 2014, Elliot Page put his heart out there for all of us to see when he gave a thoughtful, deeply moving speech at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. His iconic slow-motion entrance in the movie quickly became another popular meme, and the actor continued to uphold his internet icon status. Now, hes using his knowledge to help struggling small-business owners make it in this competitive world. Her, featuring a score by Owen Pallett and Win Butler, premieres at New York Film Festival. His character, Jason Mendoza, breaks away from another Asian stereotype of being sexless, shy and socially awkward. 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. A change.org petition to name Reeves Time magazines 2019 Person of the Year was launched midway through the year an honour that has previously been bestowed on Barack Obama and Pope John Paul II. There are few films in Hollywood and almost none in Canada that have a family of Black women at their centre; as Meghie noted when I interviewed her, its a strange and unsettling privilege to be one of the first. (Could it be Banksy?) Originally consisting of DJs Ehren Bear Witness Thomas of the Cayuga First Nation, Ian DJ NDN Campeau of the Nippising First Nation and Dan DJ Shub General, Mohawk of the Six Nations Grand River (though General was replaced by Tim 2oolman Hill, Mohawk of the Six Nations Grand River, in 2014 and Campeau left in 2017), the electronic music group drew much-deserved attention for their mix of hip hop, dance and reggae alongside remixes of traditional powwow songs. Drakes debut studio album Thank Me Later is released. I cant wait to see what the next decade will bring you. What can you believe, period? Expect to see a lot more of her in the 2020s. The resulting video for the power ballad Ashes shows a heavily retouched Dion prancing on The Colosseum stage with dancer Yanis Marshall in heels and a Deadpool costume. The song brought the superstar DJ to the top 40 in Canada, educating a generation of Canadians about Bradburys terrifying, dystopian storytelling along the way. Based on the iconic graphic novel series by Bryan Lee OMalley, director Edgar Wrights Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is a love letter to a city that often plays dress-up. Her Disney Plus series, which ends its first season this week, found ways to combine comedy with superhero romance. This extended to the literary realm as well. They pose as a film crew for Mud 2: Never Clean; they stage a 57th year reunion at Francess old high school. From 2013 to 2017, she embodied over a dozen clones on the sci-fi series "Orphan Black," and won an Emmy for it By creating an audience section for the bar, the rest of the patrons will become de facto performers in his slice of life showSmokers Allowed. Probably most important of all, his casting means that Asian children and Asian-Canadian children in particular will see someone who they can identify with on the silver screen. Its a reminder that Edmonton has a thriving theatre community and is at no loss for artistic talent or creativity. Its this simple thing that has created some of the most incredible drag: through pure, unadulterated expression, free of rules. They also announced in their 2016-2021 Strategic Plan that supporting Indigenous arts would be a key priority. These butt-covering details can turn a Byzantine act of deception into a Byzantine act of deception thats legal and over four seasons of semantic manipulation, Dumb Starbucks remains NFYs most celebrated moment. Like Schitts Creek, Orphan Black was a Canadian critical darling-turned-social media phenomenon-turned-international awards contender. Farmers work A way out of the mirror was an ode to fountains and their monumentalizing and memorializing qualities. What Do You Mean? becomes Justin Biebers first No. There was a big reason to celebrate Domee Shis Oscar win on Feb. 24, and not only because her animated short about an aging Chinese-Canadian woman and a little dumpling that comes to life was the perfect way to spend eight minutes. Artists like Caroline Monnet, Danis Goulet, Tracey Deer, Lisa Jackson, Asinnajaq, Amanda Strong and Michelle Latimer opened up new modes of storytelling and creation that forever changed the conception of what a Canadian film could be. So Harris et al. In Canada, however, it won the Governors General Literary Award, as well as the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. The Illinois-born, Ontario-raised director won his first Tony Award in 1985 for directing Big River and has had a storied career ever since. Since premiering in the fall of 2016, Kims Convenience has proven that writing Asian characters can be funny without relying on clichs. But dont take my word for it. One year before cleaning up at the Canadian Screen Awards (where his work picked up nine awards, thank you very much), Xavier Dolan earned the Jury Prize at the 67th Cannes Film Festival for Mommy, the Montrealers fifth full-length feature. Richard Wagameses Indian Horse is published. She also went on to win the Juno Award for Aboriginal album of the year. Where traditional drag can be viewed as a card in which one side says female and the other says male, many think drag is simply flipping that card. The movie was the 10th highest grossing picture of the year, worldwide. That all changed in May of 2010 when a photo of The Matrix star morosely biting into a sandwich on a New York park bench went viral. Designed by KPMB Architects with Architecture49 both Toronto firms the building reflects the wide-open prairie landscape. Canadas got your back. Werbung. 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. It featured Mozarts Piano Concerto No. As for the colour, the dresss near-black/navy shade reflected the occasions sombre tone. I like sci-fi mostly the quiet kind, where people are stuck in space alone with maybe one book or maybe zero books. If a tactic bombs, hell call it a success or hire an actress wholl tell him she loved it. If theres a Platonic ideal of a TV host, he is its opposite, and while Im enough of a weirdo to find the notion of an anti-Seacrest appealing, the effect is discomfiting to most. In the episode Kimmy Goes To School! the Montreal Expos are brought up multiple times, and in the following season, Titus threatens to abandon New York because he hears Montreal has a vibrant theatre scene. My favourite mention, though, is a line from Lillian after Kimmy once agains brings up the bunker (in case youre unaware, the initial premise of the series is that Kimmy has just emerged from a bunker where she has been held captive for 15 years). Where were you when you accepted Drake as your personal saviour? Mordecai Richler gets a big-screen adaptation with Barneys Version. The Golden Globes were another shining moment for Asian-Canadian pride as Oh won the award for best actress in a TV drama for her portrayal of Eve Polastri on Killing Eve, sweeping the stage in a glitzy white dress with gold sequined sleeves (fully living out a Crazy Rich Asians fantasy that I 100 per cent mega-swooned at). You can make good money having people smoke here, he tells the owner. To balance making millions, raising twins and mayyyyybe also to rescue Las Vegas tourism after the catastrophic crash of the Great Recession, Dion launches a second residency on the Strip. According to Citadels artistic director Daryl Cloran, the set and overall look of the play evolved thanks to its run at the theatre, and Hadestowns success has been a real boost for the city. The plan: Find an ordinary guy and transform him into a national hero.. Instead of relying on non-Indigenous editors, Barton made the smart decision to invite Philip Kevin Paul, Richard Van Camp and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson to edit the issue. In 2018, her third feature film The Weekend premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival before being released in theatres earlier this year. Maslany's in-limbo Perry Mason status appeared to come into greater focus back in December when the Emmy winner formally signed on to play the title role Disney+'s upcoming She-Hulk series . It won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canadas International Prize in 2019. When did he graduate to being a force to be reckoned with, a young artist whom you wanted to cradle and dance with and ultimately protect? The show is simply titled Celine and one of the posters shows her exposed back with the unsubtle tagline: Celines Back. Her fashion choices, supervised by longtime stylist and creative director Annie Horth, prove of better taste than the marketing campaign and include Lanvin and Versace. Leonard Cohen releases You Want It Darker. Love, Canada.) Admittedly, despite the attention given to Guillaume Ct the choreographer and principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada who also starred in the film Lost in Motion didnt change the distribution game. Leah Collins is the senior writer at CBC Arts. What motivates people to believe the most obvious, calculated lie, despite all evidence to the contrary? Sympathy for Reeves started pouring in. From there, Meghies journey becomes a bit of a filmmaker fairytale. Even though her hosting the awards was a big deal, Oh acknowledged something important about representation: that change is excruciatingly slow. stands in for Washington as The Twilight Saga begins its two-part conclusion. At the end of the decade, Dion wanted to take time off again to have another child, but getting pregnant proved to be more difficult for her than the first time. The film adaptation of Life of Pi comes out in theatres. Like The Good Place, Brooklyn Nine-Nine was created by Michael Schur, who is maybe the most Canada-obsessed American TV writer. With each birth, Alanis experienced postpartum depression (PPD) and over the course of these 10 years, she has never shied away from publicly sharing those experiences and what shes learned in the hopes of helping other people in the same situation. The Canada-obsessed police comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine premieres. But just because no one outside this country has been hearing our fabulous trees fall in the woods doesnt mean that Canadian drag hasnt been making all sorts of sounds for years. Cheap scares were out, swapped for a far more chilling brand of storytelling: slow-festering, existential despair. And sunlight animates the structures features both inside and out. And for Black Canadian female filmmakers, it can feel virtually impossible. That temporary site is marked for a Westbank condo development, which is also designed by Ingels, and the complex is expected to feature a pixel-ish aesthetic, very similar to Unzipped. Billboard 200 chart, a first in 17 years (and an achievement a decade in the making). The list of overachievers that dominate pop culture, whose projects are seen by hundreds of thousands of audience members on a consistent basis, is five times as long and more varied. Zadie Xa brings her Korean-Canadian diasporic mythologies to Londons Art Night, Zadie Xa Child of Magohalmi and the Echoes of Creation (Keith Hunter). A post shared by Cline Dion (@celinedion) on May 6, 2019 at 5:03pm PDT. (Evidently, Jason Wu is your go-to for moments of celebration and mourning. Her look that evening leaves fashion observers shook, but its her wild ride with James Corden on his Carpool Karaoke segment later that month that confirms to the world that Dion is now a full-time meme. With her Asian glow jokes and speaking Korean on stage, she oh-so solidified her spot as a Canadian queen I will forever stan. Of course, the Damien Chazelle romantic musical was destined to be a hit after opening to almost unanimous praise at the Venice Film Festival (spoiler: it did go on to earn over $400 million US worldwide). David Ly is the author of the chapbook Stubble Burn and the poetry collection Mythical Man. Starring (then) real-life couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the franchise spun four books into five movies. She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany reveals alternate finale ending that was 'more serious' Head writer Jessica Gao told Maslany "there were like 20 versions" of the ending, the actress says. Throughout the second half of the decade since its release, its influence has been undeniable and will no doubt continue to reverberate in the years to come as the Indigenous renaissance stretches far into the future. The plan: Get brand recognition by turning an indie cafe into the worlds first parody Starbucks. To the untrained eye (read: mine), the main building is a little like a modernist Imperial walker, rising above a cliff on tall, spindly legs. It was later nominated for eight Canadian Screen Awards. (This is hardly an exhaustive list, but 2019 alone saw the likes of Tales of the City, Pose, Schitts Creek, Vida, Killing Eve, The Politician, and of course, 100 or so editions of RuPauls Drag Race.) That scene where a doozy of a dirt cloud spoils a baseball game? has a leading 14 nominations including best TV drama series and best actress in a continuing drama series for star Tatiana Maslany, who appears as a host of cloned characters on the hit show. Drake, Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Alessia Cara and Shawn Mendes all became global superstars over the course of the last 10 years, producing a slew of hits. Barbara Hannigan receives Rolf Schock Prize for Musical Arts. In short, Jamess star has been rising fast this decade, and it only seems poised to soar further in the 2020s. And that vision is, in many cases, true Ive known artists whove lived temporarily in Iceland, explored the ocean on freighters or casked whisky at the Glenfiddich distillery in Scotland. And that doesnt just mean coming out anymore: it means ensuring less privileged or famous creative queer folks get a chance to thrive, or using opportunities on public stages (like Page sure did on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this year) to remind people it is not OK that we live in a society where homophobia and transphobia still exist so violently. The show is a true accomplishment in Canadian television writing one that has not only shown that Canada is a mosaic of cultures, but that within these cultures, there are individual nuances that deserve time in the spotlight. ), Because the world wasnt horrible enough in 2017, It came back. Instead, I like to think, we all just run together. Both actors have been exceptional across Dolans filmography (in particular, Dorval in I Killed My Mother and Clment in Laurence, Anyways), but Mommy was everybodys finest hour (or two and a half hours, as it were). Cheered on by the entire country, she would even be tweeted about by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Other notable filming locations include Chinatown and Gastown. A lesser-known but perhaps even more important fact is that on this date, Meghie also became the first Black Canadian female filmmaker to ever have a wide release studio feature film. Though its polygonal shape is striking as can be, the dark colour scheme lets it fade into the trees, while the interior mimics the same dappled light as a forest canopy. With the seemingly unstoppable one-two punch of Ghost and Stuttering both pieces of pop perfection in their own right Dobson built an incredible foundation for herself. The Speed love affair that almost was. Furthering the lasting mark of Offreds dystopian nightmare, the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwoods novel cleaned up at the 2017 Emmys, earning trophies for outstanding drama series, supporting actress (drama), lead actress (drama) and writing (drama). And since Indigenous peoples supposed lack of history, art, politics, science, medicine and culture was often used to excuse Canadas systematic attempts to wipe out our nations, this sort of erasure had concrete effects on our lives. The architect, Todd Saunders, is a Newfoundland native who lives and works in Norway. Never a critical hit, the series was a pop culture titan, bolstered by legions of Twihards. Stan culture came to dominate the decade, and the acolytes of this schlocky supernatural romance more or less signalled the first wave. We don't want to seem greedy (that'd go against the Canadian stereotype, right? 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. As Alonzo Fonny Hunt, a man sent to prison for a rape he didnt commit, James is deeply captivating in a very challenging role. The Birdcage, Brokeback Mountain, The Imitation Game, Dallas Buyers Club and Philadelphia were all directed by straight men, while Modern Family and even Will & Grace definitely catered to straight audiences. (But thats two years from now, so lets move on.). It felt like a chance to relive the 90s and the young generation of pop stars it produced (Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys), but under an updated, improved Canadian lens. We leave behind the industrial room and theatrical costumes, and now its just Young and the five dancers in rehearsal sweats, offering a series of ravishing meditations-in-dance on trauma, hope, support and the painstaking, repetitive work of recovery. (Some of us miss the graffiti. Even better (and more relevant to 2019), two years after the records release, Shania announced plans for a 23-date Las Vegas residency, where shell be playing well into 2020. Since her television debut, shes been praised for her interview style and evolving approach to monologues, and now the only barrier left is for viewers like me to learn how to stay up until 1:35 a.m. More women than ever before win Governor Generals Literary Awards. The rest, as they say, is history. It grabbed the worlds attentionby blending into the background. Supposedly hired for a scheme that never plays out, Nathan keeps calling her, and she is, in a way, an ideal match. Celine Dion releases her 27th studio album, Courage. Its an incubus which is way less surprising than Sues reaction. As promised, he inspires the public with a death-defying tightrope walk for charity., The plan: Construct the ultimate talk show anecdote.. For the last 10 years, we just wanted to perform. Shell return to star as Judy Robinson in the second season of the Netflix remake of Lost in Space. And by the time they recruit an exorcist (out, out, incubus!) Beyond a few supremely bizarre moments (three words: naturopathic piss drinking), a fireside convo brings the group together and as Nathan says at the conclusion: By the end of the night, I felt like I had made new friends. (But also, nobody got the rebate. The whole endeavour is inherently absurd, made even more bonkers if the gambit actually works. With highlights like the premiere of the sitcom Kims Convenience, Manny Jacintos stereotype-breaking role on The Good Place, Sandra Oh becoming the first Asian person to host the Golden Globes, and the announcement of Simu Liu as Marvels first Asian superhero, the last decade was full of watershed moments. In the last weeks of 2019, the My Heart Will Go On singer is enjoying the peak of a mid-life renaissance fueled by millennials nostalgia for less complicated times, her Vogueapproved status as a fashion icon and social medias appetite for self-deprecating yet wholesome celebrities. ), Remai Modern opens its doors to the public. Cera capped off the decade with a supporting role in the Tony-nominated Broadway run of The Waverly Gallery, a play about a young man who slowly watches his grandmother succumb to Alzheimers disease.
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