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He taught the craft in Portugal and at the prestigious William Esper Studio in Manhattan. John Frey, an actor and screenwriter who taught acting in Lisbon, Portugal, and at the William Esper Studio in Manhattan, died Jan. 23 of heart failure in New York, his friend Frank Coelho announced. He was 62. The Bronx-born Frey graduated from the William Esper Studio, then returned in 2019 to teach the Meisner acting technique. "An artist pure of heart and generous of spirit has been taken from us far too soon," reads a statement on the studio's website. "John was a critically acclaimed director, awar...

Dr Gabor Maté is the kind of psychiatrist you sense can see into a person's soul. Make a throwaway comment and he leans forward in his big, brown leather chair in the book-lined study of his Vancouver home and asks: "Why do you think that is?" or, "Do you notice what you did with your body language when you said that?"

Share It took quite some effort for actor Jillian Nguyen to impress her parents. Landing a lead role opposite Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten in the coming feature film Loveland didn’t do it; nor did the trailblazing SBS series Hungry Ghosts starring Bryan Brown. It wasn’t until they spied her face on the cover of a Vietnamese language magazine at the Asian grocers that the accolades came. “Now Mum is completely obsessed,” laughs Nguyen. “She works in a noodle factory and she’s told all her friends about it. Dad too. They’re so happy, because for them it’s a first. Growing up,...

Photo: Vidur Bharatram As a new adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s “Funny Boy” hits the screen as a Deepa Mehta–directed feature film, Kamal Al-Solaylee reflects on the book that inspired it By Kamal Al-Solaylee Few books have cast as large a spell on the last two decades of my life as Shyam Selvadurai’s 1994 novel Funny Boy has. I return to it, by choice or duty, roughly every four or five years. And with each rereading it illuminates not only parts of my personal history but Canada’s shifting literary landscape and the global, and ongoing, debate about the meanings of home, exile...

The Very Excellent Mr Dundee This grim year of misery and misfortune has highlighted the difference between cinema and the movies: it’s been terrible for the former and excellent for the latter. The pandemic-induced closure of theatres across the world took the focus away from big tentpole releases and shifted it to smaller budget, water cooler productions that were wolfed down by homebound audiences. “Streaming” should probably be listed as the Oxford Word Of The Year, given how much we’ve all been doing of it. There’s been plenty of TV ‘events’ drawing conversation around the ...