Traveling is a wonderful habit of the human nature. People do it for different reasons. Some are interested in visiting as much as they can in order to gain culture and perspective, others just to get away from the rat race for a few days and just lay in the sun without a care in […]
Year: 2015
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10 Great Movies That Are Difficult To Discuss
Film is a delicate art form. It can be used as a tool for entertainment, spawning massive box office franchises that earn billions of dollars. While other films are made to be social commentary, looking at the fringes of human existence to reflect on mankind. Film is one of those rare forms of artistic expression […]
The 10 Best One-Minute Films of The Past Decade
“The one minute format is some great thing, because you have only one minute to tell a story. And this needs a lot of discipline. I don’t know any other genre of cinema which requires such discipline.“ says Klaus Eder, the General Secretary of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), in welcoming this year’s […]
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10 Great Films That Showcase The Effect of Confinement
As the climactic discourse in the trailer for Blackfish touts, “if you we in a bath tub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little psychotic?” Beyond metaphysical questions about whether plants are sentient beings or not, all animals with a brain or central nervous system are assumed to have mobility among their […]
No Men Beyond This Point – VIFF 2015 Review
Christopher Guest’s chef d’oeuvres aside (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, et al.), the mockumentary is to comedy what found footage is to horror; frayed, familiar and ridden with cliché. And so the alarm bells were raised right away for BC filmmaker Mark Sawers latest film, No Men Beyond This Point, but much to his […]
La isla mínima (Marshland) – VIFF 2015 Review
Marshland is the latest neo-noir crime thriller from Spanish filmmaker Alberto Rodríguez (Unit 7) and it’s a gloomily rococo showpiece and a relentless shocker. Set in the autumn of 1980 in the ethereal Guadalquivir Marshes – glimpsed repeatedly and tellingly from impossible heights, suggesting the point of view of a vengeful deity – a series […]