The directorial debut from Geoff Redknap, best known as an old hand effects makeup artist (he cut his teeth on moody sci-fi TV shows like The X-Files and Supernatural before doing features like Cabin in the Woods), is ripe with promise and possibility as he takes a crack at the old chestnut The Invisible Man. […]
Month: October 2016
Aquarius – VIFF 2016 Review
It’s astonishing that Aquarius is only Kleber Mendonça Filho’s second feature, for it attests a true genius. This honest, mosaic-like drama from Brazil appears, on the surface, to be a rhetoric-addled prescription for maudlin sentimentality as we get to know Dona Clara (Sônia Braga), a retired music writer in her mid-60s who outrightly refuses a […]
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10 Reasons Why “The Double Life of Veronique” is the Best Kieslowski Movie
Krzysztof Kieslowski is one of those rare directors who can reach the viewer in an almost unexplainable way. You can try to analyse this connection, but it is a form of psychic connection that just happens. He once said: “I try to make films which connect people.” It is similar to Bergman in a way, […]
In a Valley of Violence – VIFF 2016 Review
If you consider the diverse range in tone and distinction of recent revisionist Westerns like Alejandro Iñárritu’s The Revenant (2015), Quentin Tarantino’s dyad The Hateful Eight (2015), and Django Unchained (2012), the artful horror hybrid of S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk (2015) and Kelly Reichardt’s first-rate feminist horse opera Meek’s Cutoff (2010), just to name […]
Another Evil – VIFF 2016 Review
“Annihilate the spectres,” spits Os Bijourn (Mark Proksch) in all seriousness, to a frazzled Dan Papadakis (Steve Zissis) in writer-director Carson Mell’s debut feature, the gut-busting horror-comedy Another Evil. This eccentric, original, and nimble film, shot by Mell on a micro-budget, wickedly unravels like a mumblecore Ghostbusters. Another Evil works best as a low-key comedy […]
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The 10 Best Movies Inspired by an Album
Music and cinema have always been tightly connected, even before films could be shot with sound and scored. The musical experience is often linked to a visual representation, for example through the annotations on a score like in Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony (“by the brook”, “thunder, storm”), or through a composition inspired by paintings like Mussorgsky’s […]