Est. 1998
1939 is generally considered to be the greatest year in film history. In those 12 months, audiences got to discover such timeless classics as “Gone With the Wind”, “The Wizard of Oz” and “Stagecoach”, to name but three movies which, if you were to crossbreed them, might just give birth to something like this here “Australia”, an epic down-under Western fairy tale set in “a…
Roger Ebert has said, “After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven’t found another filmmaker who intrigues me more… Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini.” That’s rather excessive praise, but one thing that can’t be argued is that Morris’ recent win of the Best Documentary Oscar was well deserved (at least considering that Academy voters don’t…
Hey, I actually really liked this picture. At first, I wasn’t particularly attracted to it. As you know, I usually go to the movies to see macho studs and gangsters, edgy independent flicks, wild comedies or intelligent dramas, but I rarely check out chick flicks before they’re on video. Don’t think it’s because I’m a man’s man: I’m well in touch with my feminine side,…
So this is your third time coming to Montreal to show one of your films at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma? “Yes. I love this city and I love this festival. It’s a very intelligent festival, it has edge and they’ve got good taste in movies.” Well, they’ve selected Heaven on Earth, and it is indeed an interesting movie, not to flatter you– “No-no, please…
After spending 16 years in the military and doing extensive counter- terrorism work, John Creasy (Denzel Washington) finds himself at the end of his rope, an alcoholic has been who wonders whether God will forgive him for the horrors he’s done for his country. Then one day when he’s down in Mexico to visit old army buddy Rayburn (Christopher Walken), he’s introduced to a wealthy…
New Orleans. All kind of people call it home, black or white, rich or poor. That’s where a bunch of evil businessmen are putting together big-scale hunts in which the targets are more-or-less willing bums. They’re picked up on the street, interviewed to see if anyone would notice their death and then offered a big load of cash to be preys. The bum has…
Penelope is a fairytale movie about a young bourgeois girl, born with a pig’s snout for a nose, on a quest for freedom from her overbearing family and alienating face. While at first the film’s lightweight plot and cuddly mood are disarmingly charming, things quickly start to lose steam and feel a little too familiar as Penelope borrows and channels the vision of…
Burt Farlander: I had a dream about Montreal last week. Verona De Tessant: Was I topless in it? Burt Farlander: Yes. From the moment you see this dilapidated shack of a house, you think how could anyone live here? There is a light on inside so someone must live there. Who could possibly though? It looks as though it could fall in on itself at…
“Pump Up the Volume” is one of the most powerful movies I’ve ever seen. We gotta be grateful it achieved to even get made. Maybe we gotta thank Christian Slater, whose clout might have helped pass this red hot material by the thick-headed Hollywood types. But still, the movie was merely a bleep on the pop culture radar. In our world where box-office tallies are…
This live-action adaptation of the classic story about the boy who wouldn’t grow up will be remembered for a few of its spectacular images more than anything else. Some scenes have a mesmerizing beauty, such as the “fairy ball” and the ensuing moonlit dance shared by Peter Pan (Jeremy Sumpter) and Wendy (Rachel Hurd-Wood in her first role). There is a sense of amazement at…