Weekly Roundup: CANNES REPORT – Projections and Reflections on the Croisette
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by VIFFEST
2y ago
By Morgan Gabereau Benedetta: It was sweltering on the Croisette this past week, where perennial bad boy and octogenarian Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Basic Instinct) returned to crank it up a few more notches. It’s hard to know what to say about Benedetta. Predictably controversial, the opening act teeters into campy B-movie territory and then slyly shifts from gratuitous eye candy to subversive and substantive social history. Both loved and loathed, one thing is for sure: Verhoeven still knows how to push buttons.  Having drawn gasps h ..read more
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Establishing Shots: July 16-22, 2021
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by VIFFEST
2y ago
Every week, Establishing Shots offers some further enlightenment on the films that will be screening in-cinema at the VIFF Centre and online through VIFF Connect ..read more
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Weekly Roundup: July 9, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival
by VIFFEST
2y ago
Your weekly one-stop-shop for film news, interviews, articles, and videos from the week that was. This week’s post will be available at 5pm PST ..read more
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Establishing Shots: July 9-15, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival
by VIFFEST
2y ago
Every week, Establishing Shots offers some further enlightenment on the films that will be screening in-cinema at the VIFF Centre and online through VIFF Connect. Obayashi’s Tragedies of Youth trilogy: Casting Blossoms to the Sky, Seven Weeks and Hanagatami “[Obayashi] will always be remembered first and foremost for House (Hausu), the 1977 cult favorite that Chuck Stephens has called ‘a modern masterpiece of le cinéma du WTF?!‘ But Obayashi made films throughout his long life…” “Beyond House” by Criterion’s David Hudson “What matters is to be concerned about ..read more
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Weekly Roundup: Announcements, lists, and Postcards From Now
Vancouver International Film Festival
by VIFFEST
2y ago
Your weekly one-stop-shop for film news, interviews, articles, and videos from the week that was. As we pass the midway point of the year and look forward to brighter days spent in darkened movie theatres, Slant Magazine has assembled their list of “The Best Films of 2021… So Far”. Meanwhile, everyone else has busied themselves drafting their “must see” lists for Cannes, which kicks off on July 6. Vulture finds a dozen titles to recommend, while Screen Daily goes with 20. As IndieWire reports, both Locarno and Karlovy Vary announced the lineups for their respective summer festivals. The form ..read more
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Establishing Shots: July 2-8, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival
by VIFFEST
2y ago
Every week, Establishing Shots offers some further enlightenment on the films that will be screening in-cinema at the VIFF Centre and online through VIFF Connect. Tove “What distinguishes Tove from lesser fare… is that the protagonist is rarely in danger of being explained away. The roots of her inventiveness lie bedded deep, where they belong, and Jansson herself cannot quite account for the ensuing blooms… Tove dispatched me down a rabbit hole, or through a Moomin door. I recommend the trip.” Anthony Lane, New Yorker “Along the way, parallels with key characters from the children’s ..read more
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Weekly Roundup: June 25, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival
by VIFFEST
2y ago
With Abel Ferrera’s Siberia set for its theatrical release, Willem Dafoe talked to IndieWire’s Eric Kohn on a variety of topics, including his ongoing aversion to television projects. As he says, “The definition between those two gets a little fuzzy, but the one thing that remains pretty consistent is stuff that’s narrative-based — where it’s based on writers and characters — that’s for TV. While I think cinema can do very well with those things, it can also go beyond that. It can bend time and deal with image, sound, color, all those poetic properties that are harder to define… I remain very ..read more
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Establishing Shots: June 25-July 1, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival
by VIFFEST
2y ago
Every week, Establishing Shots offers some further enlightenment on the films that will be screening in-cinema at the VIFF Centre and online through VIFF Connect. Unceded Chiefs “We didn’t have any rights at all back then… Then look at the progression of what’s happened in my lifetime.” Doreen Manuel is interviews by The Georgia Straight’s Charlie Smith The Goose “I’ve creating some elbow room in the filmmaking world where I stand out because it’s a different approach to filmmaking… Whether that helps me or impedes my progress going forward I’m not sure, but I had a lot of fun doing ..read more
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Weekly Roundup: June 18, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival
by VIFFEST
3y ago
Your weekly one-stop-shop for film news, interviews, articles, and videos from the week that was. After initial speculation that Denis Villeneuve’s Dune might premiere at Cannes, the filmmaker’s latest sci-fi epic has now been confirmed for the Venice Film Festival. Villeneuve previously premiered Arrival at the prestigious fall festival. With the Cannes lineup now set, attention has shifted ever so slightly to the Marché du Film, where there’s bound to be a bidding for the in-the-works wares by an array of luminaries. As is his custom, Criterion’s David Hudson rounds up the latest news conce ..read more
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Establishing Shots: June 18-24, 2021
Vancouver International Film Festival
by VIFFEST
3y ago
Every week, Establishing Shots offers some further enlightenment on the films that will be screening in-cinema at the VIFF Centre and online through VIFF Connect. Akilla’s Escape “In Akilla’s Escape, Officer seeks to do more than present a tapestry of the criminal underworld in the past and present. Instead, he unpacks the legacy of violence and oppression that has swept though countries and communities across the globe, specifically Jamaica… Instead of a movie about a drug deal gone wrong, Akilla’s Escape is a film about manhood, mercy, and second chances.” Aramide Ti ..read more
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