The End of Cinema

Jeffrey Lau's 1994 film The Eagle Shooting Heroes stands out among the weird and wacky world of Hong Kong comedies as possibly the w...

A few thoughts I jotted down while watching People's Park , a single-take documentary set in a park in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan b...

The Hole - 20, 2009 The Turin Horse - 16, 2011 Bernie - 20, 2011 Girl Walk//All Day - 24, 2011 Flying Swords of Dragon Gate - 26...

Summer Stock - 24, 1950 Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame - 28, 2010 Ong Bak 3 - 49, 2010 Life Without Pr...

The Haunted Hotel - 4, 1907 Lightning Sketches - 5, 1907 The Artist's Dreams - 2, 1913 Down on the Phoney Farm - 6, 1915 Bobby B...

A Day's Pleasure - 7, 1919 The Postman Always Rings Twice - 11, 1946 Hearts and Minds - 13, 1974 Eraserhead - 10, 1977 Lincoln...

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln begins with the President talking to a pair of black soldiers after a battle, one praising him for being ...

After several days of festival movies filled with storytelling gimmicks and dazzling displays of artistic virtuosity, I was utterly unpre...

The longest, most unwieldy title of the festival belongs to this film by Korean director Koo Sungzoo.  It opens with a closeup of a man s...

Blind Husbands - 3, 1919 Ali: Fears Eats the Soul - 5, 1974 The Shining - 4, 1980 Skyfall - 2012

The latest film from Olivier Assayas has apparently been retitled After May (a direct translation of its French title,  Après mai ) for...

Here's a preliminary ranking of the 31 movies I saw this year at the Vancouver International Film Festival, with links to the writ...

Flunky, Work Hard - 19, 1931 Murders in the Rue Morgue - 17, 1932 Swordsman 2 - 19, 1992 The Master - 2012 Looper - 2012 Cloud ...

Kleber Mendonça Filho directs the fourth film in what turned out to be a surprisingly strong showing for the Portuguese language at this ...

By nine o'clock on Tuesday, October 5th, my VIFF experience was four days and fifteen movies old.  I trepidatiously settled in for mo...

The third of director Phil Grabsky's biographical documentaries of famous composers is about as good a film about Joseph Haydn as you...

Directed by the Portuguese pair of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, The Last Time I Saw Macao is an enveloping blend of...

"She had a farm in Africa.  She had a farm in Africa."  With that refrain echoing the opening lines of Isak Dinesen's Out o...

It wouldn't be a trip to VIFF without a Hong Sangsoo movie, though it'd be tough for him to top the double he pulled at VIFF ...