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Continue reading →: Here: The Fleeing MomentsIt is now or never that we should discuss Bas Devos’s scintillating fourth feature Here, since, in a couple of months, the internet conversation and discourse surrounding a movie with this particular title will be solely dedicated to a certain Robert Zemeckis joint. Joke aside, this delicately minor work that debuted…
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Continue reading →: Retro-review: CasablancaThis last Wednesday, the Princess Cinema at downtown Waterloo screened Casablanca for its 39th birthday. This is an annual tradition for the landmark arthouse cinema, as it showed this film on 16mm on the day of its inauguration in 1985. What is most noteworthy, the ticket price is purposefully kept…
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TIFF ’24 Review: Universal Language
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Continue reading →: TIFF ’24 Review: Universal LanguageIn Universal Language, Matthew Rankin introduces an offbeat, alternative version of his hometown, Winnipeg, where Iranians are the main inhabitants, and Farsi and French are the official languages. It’s very delightful to see a film that weaves the formal idiosyncrasies of Kiarostami, Tati, and Wes Anderson into something that feels…
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Continue reading →: Collective Monologue: The Compassionate and Observant Capsule of Argentine ZoosFor every 10 movies at TIFF about Naomi Watts befriending penguins, there’s a movie like this that warms my soul. Jessica Rinland’s experimental documentary Collective Monologue is interested in interspecies connection and the layouts of infrastructural compounds formed around humans and animals. Its title refers to a theory by Jean…
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Continue reading →: TIFF ’24 Review: Bound in HeavenThe moment fireworks fully reach the sky and explode is the moment they begin to fade. The two lovebirds in Bound in Heaven, Xia You and Xu Zitai, choose to embrace their lives as if every second is that brightest moment and forego the rest. In a film that hopelessly…
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Continue reading →: TIFF ’24 Review: Cloud“I know a lot of people here love my film Cure, this film is not much like that,” said Kiyoshi Kurosawa before TIFF’s premiere of his newest feature, Cloud. He’s speaking the truth, the film is nothing like that hypnotic masterpiece, but not in any pejorative sense. In fact, 1997…
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Continue reading →: TIFF ’24 Review: Caught by the TidesJia Zhangke’s breakthrough masterpiece Platform from 2000 follows a youthfully vibrant theatre troop travelling and performing around China, in whatever form on whatever stage they can. It was a deeply personal panorama of shifting social-political currents and an elegiac dedication to art itself. That film concludes in the late 90s…
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Continue reading →: Grand Tour: A Post-Colonial AdventureWinner of the Best Director award at Cannes this year, Grand Tour is a kaleidoscopic journey of post-colonial melancholia about people trying to catch up to something that has been long gone or never existed in the first place. It splices between time and space, scenes shot on studio soundstages and contemporary…
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Continue reading →: Best Films of 2024, So Far…In terms of cinema, the first six months of the year are always tricky. For one, studios usually choose to push their potential critics’ darlings to the back half of the year for better awards prospects. The summer blockbuster season is already heating up, but with the disruption of Hollywood…
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Continue reading →: Retro-review: Fat GirlIn Fat Girl, Breillat employs a naturalistic approach to telling the abrasive coming-of-age journey of two sisters. Her observation style strikes a fine balance between sordid provocation and stone-cold surveillance. The best example is the bedroom long takes of the 15-year-old Elena being lured, peer-pressured and sweet-talked into having sex…
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