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VIFF 2018: “An Elephant Sitting Still”, “Mangoshake”, “Genesis” & “Wolf Hall”
Gary Shannon October 12, 2018

One inevitably recurring theme in the many films you get see at festivals like VIFF is how the world isn’t going to give you the answers to life’s hard questions. It is often that the filmmakers must …

Gary Shannon October 12, 2018
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3 Faces Movie Review | VIFF 2018
Gary Shannon October 11, 2018

Jafar Pahani’s 3 Faces escapes the confines of the director’s home (This Is Not a Film) and even Tehran (Taxi) as the recording of a young girl’s apparent suicide spurs him, and celebrated Irani…

Gary Shannon October 11, 2018
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Transit Movie Review | VIFF 2018
Gary Shannon October 9, 2018

What if purgatory was a Gestapo police state in contemporary Marseilles? Once again, Christian Petzold’s romantic waltz of Hollywood dreamscape and grounded emotional reality is not so much a distract…

Gary Shannon October 9, 2018
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The Image Book Movie Review | VIFF 2018
Gary Shannon October 8, 2018

There’s a moment in Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book where the forerunner of Nouvelle Vague (French New Wave) takes home footage of a young girl who—perhaps for the first time in her life—watches an i…

Gary Shannon October 8, 2018
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VIFF 2018: “Asako I & II”, “Holiday”, “In My Room” & “Fausto”
Gary Shannon October 4, 2018

The Vancouver International Film Festival comes more than half-a-year after Sundance, months after Cannes, and mere days after Toronto International Film Festival which is good news for us film-depend…

Gary Shannon October 4, 2018
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