Our friends at OFF-VIFF have announced their second year of counter-programming to this year's VIFF in Vancouver. After a successful inaugural year of disrupting the system OFF-VIFF returns to the Rio Theatre for one day of features, shorts, Q&A's...
If one peruses our 50-title fall movie preview, there shouldn’t be too many surprises for narrowing down what to see in September. But with our most-anticipated film of the entire year arriving this month, along with some early autumn gems,...
It is fascinating what the human mind will allow. Riefenstahl, a documentary directed by Andres Veiel about the life of Leni Riefenstahl, explores the rationalizations the filmmaker allowed herself in order to explain her collaborations with the Nazi Party in...
It’s always surprising what films sneak up on you at a film festival. Of the three films I wrote about for this Telluride Film Festival dispatch, I would’ve guessed a Claire Foy-led movie about grief or a new Paolo Sorrentino...
Fall-festival season invariably crowds-out some of its finer offerings. For all the sturm und drang surrounding a studio’s middling and formulaic awards hopeful, the same festival might screen a blissfully experimental feature that, despite actually achieving something new with narrative...
Few recent films scratch an itch like MEGADOC. Whatever the cinematic value of Mike Figgis’ documentary––and accounting for cheap-looking title cards with obvious typos, low-energy music, maybe not enough done with interview subject George Lucas while cutting out the participating...