My Dinner with Andre News

'As a student I'd always liked Malle best of the new wave directors ... I didn't work with him until 1992.

Wallace Shawn talks about his new book of essays in which he writes about topics like 9/11, the Iraq War, and the American economic and political system.

This Friday, two Pixar Animation classics, Toy Story and Toy Story , are joined together for a triumphant return to the big screen as part of two-week special engagement in Disney Digital 3-D. The double-feature marks the first time since 1995 that the original "Toy Story" has been available on the big screen, opening the experience to children who ...

You've probably heard that Omega-3s are good for you, but on today's show we'll unravel why they've all but disappeared from Western diets and the possible health consequences that could have for each of us.

Essays By Wallace Shawn Haymarket Books, 161 pages, $18.95. Reading Wallace Shawn's new collection of essays, it's hard not to hear his distinctive nasal chirp declaiming aloud in the mind's ear.

Now that spring is here, can the end of the world be far behind? Two independent theatre companies in our bilingual city are offering a double take on our bleak and dreary existence, in both official languages.

Just two guys and a table. My Dinner with Andre will forever be known as the film that consists only of two hours of dinner conversation, yet never becomes boring.

Something funny is going on around here. For today's cover story on clowning around, Chad Jones visited Teatro ZinZanni to take a class on how to be a silly circus actor from someone who knows how.

Louis Malle's "My Dinner With Andre" is one of the most unlikely movies ever made - at least on paper.

'My Breakfast With Blassie' is a fly-on-the-wall view to a pair of genuine oddballs engaged in what appears to be a rambling but fun conversation.

And on Thursday I bore witness to man's inhumanity to animals. I mean, I think that was what I was doing.

Could you picture Wallace Shawn, left, and Andre Gregory as 85-year-olds talking about sex? Photograph by: Criterion, National Post First, the bad news: The new Criterion edition of Louis Mallea s 1981 masterpiece My Dinner with Andre does not come with the action figures mentioned by Christopher Guest in Waiting for Guffman.

Video Event of the Week: Is it Sony's new Blu-ray restoration of Stanley Kubrick 's Cold War black comedy Dr.

The beloved cult classic My Dinner with Andre arrives on DVD. Also new this week: The Oscar-nominated animated semi-documentary Waltz With Bashir and Isla Fisher's Confessions of a Shopaholic .

The Oscar-nominated " Waltz With Bashir " is easily the best animated movie released in this country since "The Iron Giant." Oh, Iron Giant.

Confessions Of A Shopaholic Rom-com about a shopping-addicted journalist and a rich guy features a strong supporting cast including Joan Cusack, John Lithgow and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Because the original negative was lost or destroyed some years ago, it's been difficult to see Strangelove as the maniacally meticulous Kubrick intended, but this new version, based on the best surviving theatrical prints, restores the tonal range of Gilbert Taylor's black-and-white cinematography and reveals new details in Ken Adam's brilliant ...

The idea of an animated documentary seems a little ridiculous, but Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" is a fascinating work that examines war and memory.

Bergman Island It's natural, if unnecessary, that elite DVD company the Criterion Collection would take on this Swedish TV documentary that visits legendary director Ingmar Bergman at his precious home on Faro Island.

I try to catch My Dinner With Andre at least once, maybe twice a year. It's one of those wonderful films which seems to change every time I see it, but, of course, the movie doesn't change at all.