The tragic story behind the show was well-known in the arts community when it debuted in 2015. Featuring half of Hollywood including their fellow Canadians Jay Baruchel and Michael Cera the apocalypse-themed film is audacious, fearless and endlessly hilarious. Before the Group of Seven (and others of their ilk) started trying to make visual sense of our forests and waters, too many Canadian artists vision of our landscape was borrowed from European painting tradition and idealized our surroundings while making colonialism look romantic. Its a riff on the wooden buildings where fishers would process a catch. 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. typically makes headlines for all the wrong reasons. As he jovially explained the premise of the game and what drew him to it, he called the experience of playing Cyberpunk 2077 breathtaking. He paused, and a fan shouted, Youre breathtaking! from the crowd. Here are 10 Canadians who couldnt help but kill it on the Great White Way this decade. After earning popularity on Vine (RIP) in 2013, the 15-year-old Pickering, Ont., native went on to release his debut single Life of the Party in June, which became a record-breaker when it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, making him the youngest artist in history to chart in the Top 25 with a debut single. The title single, written by Sia, is no Titanium, but its probably her most current-sounding track since Thats the Way It Is, her iconic contribution to late-90s pop. (And other iconic phrases you have burned into your brain thanks to Saturday Night Live, a show that will outlive us all.) Major projects are made with our money and also without and thats OK, as Toronto and the rest of Canada welcome major productions, and our filmmakers shape them, here and elsewhere. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. She also got a jump-start on 2016s mannequin challenge via the corresponding video, where she worked her way through a party chock-full of attendees standing completely still or, as I like to call it, an ideal party if I have to stay past nine. This eventually leads to among other things her becoming a political refugee, Skyping with Justin Trudeau and attending an elementary school named after Alanis Morissette. Fast forward almost 40 years and the Charlemagne, Que., native is on her way to achieving that goal. Catherine O'Hara is sharing a positive update on the "Schitt's Creek" movie that fans all want. I like to picture him in it now, surveying his legacy (this artist was also my dear friend). 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? After years of hearing the same five or six male names bandied about in casual conversation as the beardy definition of Canadian auteur-dom (Valle, Maddin, Egoyan, McDonald, Cronenberg, Dolan; then Johnson, Shin, Radwanski and Cividino, the latter quartet representing the so-called new Toronto New Wave), festivals and critics started to take notice of female voices. The record took risks, aligned itself with strange, unique visuals and featured lyrics that were introspective, angry and unafraid of what anybody might think. It included Lindsay Nixons essay Windigo, which eventually ended up in their book ntisnak. The painting is an indictment and in 2018, a reminder of the truth thats supposed to precede any reconciliation. Not unexpectedly, given that it was Feys followup project to 30 Rock, the Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt also loved to mention Canada, though with a specific focus on one city: Montreal. Tatiana Maslany, the star of "Orphan Black," talks about creating different body movements for the myrid of characters she plays and not getting a moment to reset between gear shifts. Die Besetzungsangaben basieren auf unterschiedlichen Quellen und bieten insbesondere vor der Erstauffhrung keinerlei Garantie auf Vollstndigkeit oder Korrektheit. In November of 2014, Brampton, Ont.s Rupi Kaur released Milk and Honey, a collection of poems and prose that tackle subjects like sexual assault, violence, love and loss. In less than a decade, a 29-room hotel in a Newfoundland town most Canadians have never heard of became one of the worlds most talked-about tourist destinations. And of course, in the fourth season of Mad Men, Canadian whisky fan Don Draper starts dating his receptionist Megan, played by Jessica Par. Alternative performers have always seen more sides to the constructs of gender in which they can play. 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. Its a dubious honour on both accounts and points to the wide array of work that needs to be done not only in Hollywood but also here at home. Women of Canada, I will see you all at the movies! The woman who arguably put Canadian pop on the map in the aughts, Nelly Furtado came back with a volley of bangers on her 2012 album The Spirit Indestructible, the first of which was Big Hoops. The song hearkens back to Furtados iconic collaborations with Timbaland (Promiscuous, anyone? By my count, Canadians were nominated for 72 Academy Awards in the 2010s, which is nothing to be sorry about. went viral. What motivates people to believe the most obvious, calculated lie, despite all evidence to the contrary? Leading the Television nominees once again is ORPHAN BLACK with a stellar 14 nominations (and wins in the past three consecutive years) including Best Dramatic Series and Actress (Tatiana Maslany). David Ly is the author of the chapbook Stubble Burn and the poetry collection Mythical Man. The big secret is that all drag has always been alternative. The bar may be low, but Reeves just keeps raising it. As for the piece itself, itll ultimately land in Vancouver, next to Westbanks headquarters. This is the year it happened. Can Alanis hear me? Tatiana Maslany Height Weight Bra Size Body Measurements Age Facts. The Canadian married couple wrote the lyrics, book and music for this show, which tells the story of a small Newfoundland town that becomes flooded with Americans after 38 planes make an emergency landing following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Winner of best picture at the 90th Academy Awards, it was also the most-nominated film of the year. And Buddy, as we know, says what he likes. 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. After being a victim of fraud, Johnny Rose and his family go from extremely wealthy to penniless overnight. In the 2010s, it isnt that we earned the right to voice our opinion, stand up for our work and stop saying sorry its that we realized wed had that right all along. Elliot Page comes out at the Human Rights Campaign Foundations inaugural Time to Thrive conference. She was a well respected student, and participated as often as possible in school productions. You wont be sorry. And while Inside The Solar Temple would be his last show, it was emblematic of his incredible energy and a prophecy of his impact on future artists. 2015 ended on a cultural high note after Justin Bieber, The Weeknd and Drake had banner years, dominating the Billboard charts. Bills a recurring presence on the show, popping up in scams or even just visual gags, usually rambling about Microsoft and providing a little surreal colour. Brooke Lynn Hytes would go on that next year to win Miss Continental, one of the most prestigious pageant titles in the world of drag. Massoud has recently claimed that since portraying Aladdin, he hasnt been on a single audition, so may casting directors sit up and take notice for 2020. Meanwhile, Dolan became mind-bogglingly prolific and had his arthouse blockbuster moment with Mommy, then produced Adeles Hello music video and directed in Europe and the U.S. As a francophone Qubcoise living in Toronto and working in the film industry, this decade felt like watching the kids we had cared for and supported emotionally and financially for years suddenly fly the coop and leave home. Of course, what stoked the fires of obsession even more was the release of House of Balloons, the first mixtape from Torontos Abel Tesfaye a release that wowed listeners with its nearly seven-minute title track (co-produced by Doc McKinney) and made listeners even thirstier for The Weeknds urgent vocals, poetic lyrics and incredible beats. While the awards have had a tendency to be hosted by white actors, Oh made history as she delivered the opening monologue onstage in a blazing red dress that Villanelle would have definitely killed for. As raw and unflinching as Betroffenheit is, writes Judith Mackrell, you come away from it with a wild feeling of exhilaration uplifted by its courage, its coruscating beauty and by the faith it affirms in the power of art to address emotions that lie beyond reason or words. That those emotions derive from Youngs real-life tragedy what Pite calls the engine of the work makes the accomplishment all the more extraordinary. The final season of Breaking Bad premieres. They really, really, really, really, really, really like her: In this episode of Stan Wars, host Peter Knegt gives four Carly Rae Jepsen diehards the chance to compete for the title of her ultimate stan. Jean-Marc Valles Big Little Lies premieres. Bao wins the Oscar for best animated short. Nearly a decade later, Shraya is still a creative force to be reckoned with. Over the last 10 years, Canadian artists have been storming the world stage like never before in music, film and TV, literature, visual art, dance, theatre and everything in between. No wonder she was exalted accordingly. In fact, if you live in Winnipeg, you can catch it at the Winnipeg Art Gallery until Feb. 22, 2020. In the weeks before his death, Leonard Cohen gave us You Want It Darker, his 14th studio album. In a moment that was highly deserved and long overdue, Obsidian Theatre Canadas leading Black theatre company stunned at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards in June when it conquered the play and musical theatre categories simultaneously. Somewhere, Do They Know Its Christmas weeps. [5] Maslany also appeared in television series such as Heartland (2008-2010), The Nativity (2010), Being Erica (2009-2011), Perry Mason (2020), and She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) in the lead role of Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk. . Elliot Page is living proof of that. But between you and I, Ive never seen it, because I refuse to believe Ryan Gosling saved jazz. Turns out, the then-82-year-old was away staying with her daughter in Victoria at the time of the revelation. The Courage World Tour is taking her near, far and probably wherever you are. Shot among a 50,000-person crowd of motorbike rally spectators in a football stadium (and a mosh pit made up of Bouchers brother and his friends), the video juxtaposed the tiny Boucher atop the shouting, shoving, shirtless masses and created a playful effect that also addressed themes of traditional masculinity. Just kidding Im not delusional. ), Before he was linked to Camila Cabello, before he collaborated with Taylor Swift and before he was anointed the face of Tim Hortons (the biggest achievement of all three), Shawn Mendes was just a Canadian boy, standing in front of the internet, asking all of us to like him. Like, say, his Giller Prize nomination for last years French Exit, which included a cat inhabited by the spirit of a womans late husband a character every book should have, IMHO. Case in point: the magnitude of Canuck references on his New York City-set police comedy, which CBC Arts producer Eleanor Knowles decided to list in their entirety (at least through Season 4) in this article. Even though her hosting the awards was a big deal, Oh acknowledged something important about representation: that change is excruciatingly slow. 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. She is credited for reinventing what was once a late career move into a lucrative and zeigeist-y affair (hello, Britney and Lady Gaga). Follow every pedantic rule in the social media playbook, and theres still no formula for going viral. And similar to the Temple of Light in Santiago, this structure is a light-filled dome in the wilderness. On NFY, truth is a lie you have the confidence to believe. Back off, Tony Napoli.) This bouncy rap single was a huge smash in Canada, going five times platinum, but failed to perform anywhere else which really is a shame, because Nova Scotias Classified put together an incredibly catchy, fun and motivational single. This year alone, Canadian female filmmakers Alexandra Lazarowich and Grace Glowicki won top prizes at Sundance and SXSW respectively. Behold, introverts, for here is your queen! In addition to announcing her new album, Alanis kicked off the final month of this decade by giving us all second offering of what doesnt always come easy these days: excitement for the future. lang and Sarah McLachlan were heralded as ceremonial triumphs. Writer/director Christopher Nolan hopped back to Alberta for his next sci-fi adventure. A flash goes off, and disembodied voices start to ring out , What do we say? Or about the pleasure she gets from looking out the window during a transcontinental flight on a private jet? The film adaptation of Life of Pi comes out in theatres. Dobson never quite reached the same echelon of stardom outside of Canada that these songs brought her here, but they remain carved into this decades Canadian pop consciousness. All of us are destined to be Taylor Russell superfans, and truly, I am ready. As wellness fads go, The Movements not overtly sketchy, which might account for its success in the real world. Amy Harrity for The New York Times. 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. A man lies unconscious, or dead, in the most strangely peaceful detail of the scene, as we hope the two teens running away in the distance make it to some kind of safety. Tragedy strikes the Dion family, Team Cline and her global fandom. 21, and was quickly declared a triumph. It was (and is) also a further testament to why none of us shouldve been allowed to quit piano lessons as a kid. (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.) Justin Bieber appears on Despacito, the song of the summer. co-production. It quickly became the job of anyone who had just discovered him to find out everything we could about him. The outfit, put together by celebrity stylist Law Roach, was a radical move for Dion because it hinted that after years of tastemakers making fun of her, she might actually be in on the joke. Starring comedy royalty Catherine O'Hara (in a career-best performance) and Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek tells the story of a Kardashian-like . But just two episodes into the series, the Petting Zoo bit proved the brilliance of NFYs marketing satire. The structures 1,800 beams were re-assembled on King Street, where visitors could walk beneath the rolling form. Hand-picked links plus the best of CBC Arts, delivered weekly. Shrayas beautiful words are accompanied by Juliana Neufelds illustrations, and the book earned glowing praise from publications lucky enough to review it. 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). His talent deserves a platform. One of the shows epic works featured a sort of temple hung with plants and a hammock fashioned from an afghan. Love or loathe its smirking meta spin on superhero action, both the original and the 2018 sequel were total hits, ranking among the 10 highest grossing movies worldwide in their respective years. In the 2010s, Keanu Reeves graduated from brooding 90s action movie superstar to beloved cult hero. The Egyptian-Canadian actor worked with director Guy Ritchie to bring new life to an existing classic, and their efforts paid off: the film went on to surpass $1 billion US at the box office worldwide. How can we explain their sweeping success and the resonance of their work? Search instead in Creative? Or is it reality TV a show about a lonely comedian from Vancouver who happened to go to business school? (And if I may add: bring back Vine.). The shows previews have received rave reviews, and its shaping up to be a Broadway smash. A quirky, catchy Canadian hit. SCHITT'S CREEK, also a multi-CSA winner which just premiered in its third season, follows closely in second with 13 nominations, while KIM'S . Farmers work A way out of the mirror was an ode to fountains and their monumentalizing and memorializing qualities. While the official politics of reconciliation has left much to be desired, with the government ultimately enacting few of the 94 calls to action, the cultural and artistic impact of the TRCs final report cannot be understated. Kelly Richardsons Mariner 9 opens at Spanish City in Whitley Bay, England, Kelly Richardson Mariner 9 (Colin Davison). 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. A solid dozen jokes at our expense occur in the process, including this zinger: Your milk comes in bags, your pavilion at Epcot doesnt have a ride, and if Canada is so nice and friendly, why does most of our meth come from your Asian drug gangs?. Queer Eyes Antoni Porowski talks about how much he loves TV host, author, restaurateur and Iron Chef America winner Chuck Hughes. Its early 2011, and Denis Villeneuves Incendies is up for the Academy Award for best foreign language film. Fortunately, for fans of the blue people (who are not to be confused with the Blue Man Group), James Cameron has been talking about plans for multiple Avatar followups since 2010 and has four sequels in the works because why wouldnt he. Add to this the Leacock Medal, the Giller Prize and the Walter Scott Prize, and its no wonder deWitt continues to earn accolades for his dark humour and fiction work. In her pivotal 1991 paper The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Contemporary Native Art and Public Art Museums in Canada, Mohawk curator Lee-Ann Martin named the ultimate effect of this erasure: The exclusion of the arts of Native peoples implies that the artistic and cultural contributions to Canadian history by Canadas First Nations [Inuit, and Mtis] are non-existent. Because our art and literature were not acknowledged, as far as the Canadian public was concerned, it didnt exist. Absolutely check it out. The plan: Find an ordinary guy and transform him into a national hero.. As we know, not falling in love with the song proved impossible. This Toronto-born Second City alum took a Tony home in 2006 for co-writing the book for the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, but he didnt stop there. After helping arrange alternative travel for his fellow passengers, he joined a group headed to L.A. by van, playing music on his phone. But you could make millions with a hit play. And because this is NFY, he scours footage of the first performance to duplicate the experience, hiring actors to embody the exact essence of the original patrons. Her roadmap is one that commits to a specific and focused vision while thinking big. Isnt it ironic, then, that one of Canadas biggest superstars has spent this fame-monster decade being mostly invisible? And this preoccupation continued into the 2010s, notably with the 2011 episode Royal Pudding. Clearly parodying the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, it centres around the wedding of the prince of Canada. During the ceremony, the princes bride is suddenly abducted, leading people all over Canada to kill themselves in despair and Rush to perform their own version of Candle in the Wind.. The age of a celebritys S.O. 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. (If youre in Toronto, be sure to take in something from their current program). Instead, hes the cool, confident, hot one, and kind of a rebel and it is everything to see an Asian actor cast this way on a comedy show, unabashedly making mistakes and fumbling through life.
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