Quebecois director Guy Édoin trades in the bucolic setting of his first feature, 2011’s Wetlands, for the metropolitan Montreal borough of Ville-Marie for his ambitious, but ultimately overwrought ensemble drama follow-up. A passion piece akin to Paul Haggis’ sentimental oversell Crash, Ville-Marie similarly frames much of its plot around car crashes and how those tragedies […]
Month: September 2015
Le coeur de madame Sabali – VIFF 2015 Review
Early on in Ryan McKenna’s (The First Winter) thoughtful, candy-colored tragicomedy, Sabali, Jeannette (Marie Brassard), our put upon protagonist, tells a customer at the hotel where she works that she has a bad heart. This omission is both physically and metaphorically accurate as McKenna takes delight in exploring this eccentric woman in her journey to […]
Los Parecidos (The Similars) – VIFF 2015 Review
Mexico’s Isaac Ezban is two for two with his exhilarant follow-up to last year’s festival front-runner The Incident, the correspondingly science fiction-y mind-manipulator The Similars. Right out of the gate writer/director Ezban declares a wistful throwback via voiceover to the glory days of televised psychological suspense fare like The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone. […]
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15 Great Films Without a Soundtrack
How important is music to film? The American Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences would say important enough to merit an Oscar each year since 1935, not only for an original score, but an original song as well. Most prestigious film festivals give awards to composers and musicians thereby acknowledging their work as a […]
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The 30 Greatest Actors of Hollywood’s Golden Age
The Classical Hollywood Cinema was a period that lasted over 40 years, roughly spanning from the late 1920’s to the early 1960’s. Many, now legendary, names were first introduced to the movie-going public during this time. These actors captivated generations and their work lives on even decades after their passing. Some are famous purely for […]
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15 Movies That Looked Great At The Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival, a well respected festival with a history of giving the world its first taste of the award winning films of the year. It’s the initial start of award season. Notable films to have had their world or North American premiere at Toronto include The King’s Speech, Moneyball, Silver Linings Playbook, […]