AMORE E RABBIA (LOVE AND ANGER) (TIFF Lightbox) – This was supposed to be a collection of five shorts by Directors Bellocchio, Bertolucci, Godard, Lizzani, Pasolini, and Tattoli. The distributer only sent them the one short that Bertolucci contributed; AGONY. So, the anthology called Love and Anger consisted only of AGONY. LAST TANGO IN PARIS [...]
Read more →LONDON RIVER (TIFF Lightbox) – Two people meet in London, after coming to the city to try to find their children after the July 7th bombings. They find kids that their kids weren’t living the lives that they thought. A mother from Guernsey meets a French man THE DREAMERS (TIFF Lightbox) – I had just [...]
Read more →LA COMMARE SECCA (TIFF Lightbox) – I was running a bit late, and didn’t make it in time for the screening of London River that I had intended on seeing, so I went to see this Bertolucci film. It’s about the murder of a prostitute, and the tales the witnesses tell. It’s an odd story, [...]
Read more →FILM SOCIALISME (TIFF Lightbox) – If I figure out what Jean-Luc Godard was saying, I’ll let you know. The spoken language and the sub-titles bore only passing relation to each other; often the titles showed two words when sentences spoken. The text of the official synopsis is below, and well… I’ll take their word for [...]
Read more →THE TEMPEST (TIFF Lightbox) – I’m only barely familiar with the works of Shakespeare, and I think this is the first performance of THE TEMPEST in any format. So, obviously, I can’t speak to the differences between this version and others. As a film, it was fine, and I was especially impressed with Russell Brand [...]
Read more →ENTER THE VOID (TIFF Lightbox) – Go for the title credits and the first-person full screen trip the main character goes on. After that, the story and plot and characters are just bonuses. The title credits start out a bit annoying, strobing strobing strobing… but when they really take off… they cease being words and [...]
Read more →RED WITHOUT BLUE (iTunes) – Alex and Mark were Identical Twins, now they’re a bit less identical. Each twin was given a colour as a baby to help distinguish the kids and their possessions from one another. Growing up in Montana, born into a family of Christian Scientists, one of the twins comes out in [...]
Read more →CHINATOWN (TIFF) – Maybe not noir to purists, but noir enough for me. It was nice to see Jack Nicholson restrained but not comatose; I haven’t seen this Jack in years. I like this switch to TIFF for a while – I’m seeing a couple classic movies that I haven’t seen before. The exception is [...]
Read more →CASABLANCA (TIFF Lightbox) – I half expected that I’d walk away from this film thinking it was overrated by everyone who’d seen it in the past ~60 years. Seeing it all in one sitting, it wasn’t as out-dated as I’d expected; it has aged well, even if the print had obvious missing frames at a [...]
Read more →LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS (Carlton) – I hadn’t really considered this film, partly because it sounded like just another mindless Romantic Comedy that should star Jennifer Aniston. I looked at Rotten Tomatoes and wasn’t seeing much good news there, either. It almost felt that they were complaining that it wasn’t more preachy on the evils [...]
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