MIFF 2014: Concrete Night (2013)
byWritten by Dan Santos Originally published 8 September 2014 Set in Helsinki’s murky urban suburbia is Concrete Night, directed by Pirjo Honkasalo. Based on a…
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Film Review: Boyhood (2014)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 4 September 2014 Boyhood is writer/director Richard Linklater’s testament film. A masterpiece, destined to be remembered as one…
Film Review – Locke (2014)
byWritten by Joanna Di Mattia Originally published 28 August 2014 Constructing a building. Dismantling a life. These are the dual organizing principles of Steven…
MIFF 2014: Life of Riley (2014)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 Something of a spiritual companion piece to his penultimate masterpiece You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,…
MIFF 2014: Life Itself (2014)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 It’s hard to imagine what the landscape of film criticism would be had there been…
MIFF 2014: Baal (1970)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 Screening as part of the Masters & Restorations program at this year’s MIFF is Baal,…
MIFF 2014: (Impressions of…) Goodbye To Language 3D (2014)
byWritten by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 After abandoning (relatively) conventional narrative decades ago, French maverick Jean-Luc Godard’s latest feature is a…
MIFF 2014: Curtain Call (2014)
byWritten by James Madden Originally published 9 August 2014 “Regrets, I’ve have a few, but then again, too few to mention.” – lyrics from…
Film Review: Mystery Road (2013)
byRich, moving and intricately layered, Mystery Road is just shy of the masterpiece it could have been, but a thrilling movie experience none the less.
Film Review: The Best Offer (2013)
byA superficial scrutiny of The Best Offer might assert it to be a slightly unpalatable story of love-across the-age-divide between Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush), successful antique art auctioneer with his own priceless collection of female portraits, and Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks), twenty something agoraphobic orphan of life-long antique collectors.