It’s evening and a violet shadow—pale—spreads over the city like ink dispersing in water. We’ve gathered at the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver for a late night special preview screening of High-Rise, the fifth feature from British firebrand Ben Wheatley. “This is a film for audiences who want to see dogs being killed, and Tom Hiddleston […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
Pulling Focus: Meek’s Cutoff (2010)
“You don’t know much about women, do you Stephen Meek?” – Emily Tetherow (played by Michelle Williams) Go West, young ma’am “Oregon Territory, 1845” reads a rough-hewn hand-drawn title card that opens Meek’s Cutoff (2010), the fourth feature by 52-year-old, Miami-born filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (her sixth, Certain Women, hits select North American theaters later […]
Pulling Focus: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
“Jacques Demy’s movies are soaringly lyrical and romantic, but they always have extremely sharp edges and undertones – often bittersweet, sometimes just bitter. The effect is stunning: Between the colour and the music, every place and every object seem to vibrate with emotion.” – Martin Scorsese I will wait for you Living in the […]
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The 25 Most Overlooked Movies of 2015
2015 featured a glut of glorious films with a staggering stylistic variety. While it’s often the blockbuster releases and large studio fare that gets most of the attention the following list looks at some of the more indie-derived and arthouse fare, with some genre films and documentaries, too. While this list is lacking in the […]
Pulling Focus: The Night of the Hunter
“Dream, little one, dream Oh, the hunter in the night Fills your childish heart with fright Fear is only a dream So dream, little one, dream…” Those lines, from the score “Lullaby”, written by Walter Schumann, are profoundly unsettling, partially because a choir of children credulously sing them, but also because of the creepy-crawly context […]
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The 25 Most Visually Stunning Films of 2015
Unequivocally an outstanding year at the cinema, 2015 lit up living rooms, bijous, drive-ins, and multiplex movie screens the world over. Taste of Cinema’s tireless search for the most visually exquisite films that year was no easy charge, though many of the top choices presented themselves clearly and immediately. While the most studious and impassioned […]