Some artists feel the need to hide behind layers of artifice, carefully crafted personas and vague lyrical metaphors. When Luke Doucet croons “it takes a uniquely fucked up man to break his own heart” on the song “One Too Many,” off his second solo offering Broken (and Other Rogue States) he clearly isn’t hiding. Where… Continue reading Music Interview: A uniquely fucked up man
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Film Review: Urban clown dancing gets a Rize
Rize, the new documentary by Vanity Fair photographer David LaChapelle, has all the elements you would expect from a depiction of life in South Central Los Angeles. The opening features footage from race riots in both the ’60s and the ’90s. The film’s vivid colours begin to show hyper-kinetic dancing backed by an overbearing hip-hop… Continue reading Film Review: Urban clown dancing gets a Rize
And… Counterpoint!
As Joel Klettke stated in his article last week, we are living in the “era of the mundane, of the mediocre.” Never before have things been quite this bad, and woe is us to have been born into this sad state of affairs. All we can do is hope and pray the next generation has… Continue reading And… Counterpoint!
Film Review: Serenity now! Serenity now!
Fox TV’s treatment of Firefly never made much sense to the few fans it found during its run. The series, created by Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel mastermind Joss Whedon, was the type of show a network would have to go out of their way to screw up. Sadly, Fox did. Episodes were regularly… Continue reading Film Review: Serenity now! Serenity now!
Film Fest: Amu
Amu doesn’t start off strongly, playing like a travelogue combined with an incredibly awkward love story throughout its first half. A recent university grad from Los Angeles travels to Delhi to experience the country she left when she was three years old. She marvels at the architecture, has awkward conversations with her cousin at a… Continue reading Film Fest: Amu
Film Fest: All of a Sudden
Canadian film has enough of a stigma attached to it already, and it would be a shame to discourage people from taking risks on smaller films. Condemning a movie someone spent 13 years–an eighth of a century–working on also feels horrible, but All of a Sudden deserves it. Last year’s Phil the Alien showed Canada… Continue reading Film Fest: All of a Sudden
Film Fest: Mango Yellow
A disclaimer: the print of Mango Yellow actually melted midway through the screening, hurting the Brazilian drama’s momentum. Still, it’s easy to see director Claudio Assis has a natural ability for pacing, as he effortlessly weaves together the lives of a group of Sau Paulo outcasts. Sex, death, jealousy, infidelity and a generally pessimistic outlook… Continue reading Film Fest: Mango Yellow
Film Fest: Comedia Shorts
A strong collection of entertaining and occasionally poignant shorts featuring sex education à la H. P. Lovecraft, a re-telling of Che Guevara’s revolutionary experience in 30 seconds and a hilariously graphic and bizarre horror/thriller parody. The inclusion of two re-tellings of the Oedipus tale was a bit unnecessary, and technical issues forcing the collection to… Continue reading Film Fest: Comedia Shorts
Film Fest: The General
Buster Keaton holds a reputation as the most inventive of the silent film comedians, and The General is often held up as his crowning achievement. Watching it in the Uptown’s main floor theatre with its glorious 1920s architecture is about as authentic a reproduction of the glory days of film as one can find. The… Continue reading Film Fest: The General
Film Fest: L’Enfant (The Child)
L’Enfant (The Child) was highly praised at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is usually a solid barometer, and it didn’t disappoint. Essentially, it’s the story of a petty thief, his girlfriend, their newborn son and a series of bad decisions. The thief is one of the more despicable characters ever committed to film, completely… Continue reading Film Fest: L’Enfant (The Child)