by Todd Brown, January 27, 2010 9:51 AM
[With Cordell Barker's Runaway screening at Sundance, we present again the interview with Barker I conducted at the Toronto International Film Festival.]One of the most acclaimed animators in Canada, the only complaint about director Cordell Barker is he just...
by Todd Brown, January 26, 2010 1:20 PM
No, not that Neil Diamond.Native Canadian film maker Neil Diamond's Reel Injun was a great favorite of mine when it screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this past year. Smart, funny, insightful and hugely entertaining it dives headlong...
by Michael Guillen, January 24, 2010 6:30 PM
[With the acclaimed drama A Prophet about to screen at Sundance, now seems a good time to revisit Michael Guillen's earlier review of the film, published at its Toronto screening.]"Who you gonna get to do the dirty work when all...
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by Kurt Halfyard, January 20, 2010 9:04 AM
It is not in any way surprising that Enter The Void was a polarizing film on the festival circuit. I mean this was a three hour spiritual odyssey from Gaspar Noé, the director who made Irreversible. Long, repetitive, loose...
by Michael Guillen, January 1, 2010 2:51 PM
"The voice of the woman is a reflection of her condition on Earth. Air echoes in a chest that is smaller, vibrates vocal cords that are smaller and that produce a higher, thinner sound. It requires twice the energy,...
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by Michael Guillen, January 1, 2010 2:56 AM
Sebastián Cordero's third film Rabia is a romantic thriller about José María (Gustavo Sánchez Parra), a construction worker on the run for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend Rosa (Martina García) works as a...
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by Michael Guillen, December 25, 2009 1:30 PM
"There are no secrets; only shame."--Tonia. After competing in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, To Die Like A Man (Morrer como um homem, 2009) had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and...
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by Michael Guillen, December 24, 2009 7:15 PM
As reported earlier on The Evening Class, in 2007 the Global Film Initiative provided completion funding for Chilean director Alejandro Fernández Almendras' feature debut Huacho (Facebook page, in Spanish). In 2008 Almendras won the Sundance / NHK International Filmmaker Award....
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by Michael Guillen, December 14, 2009 4:15 PM
San Francisco's Berlin & Beyond Film Festival would have been the venue where I imagine San Franciscans might have had the opportunity to catch Matthias Emcke's debut feature Phantomschmerz (Phantom pain, 2009); but as that film festival is still reeling...
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by Michael Guillen, December 14, 2009 2:44 AM
There is an intimate scene in Oscar Ruiz Navia's debut feature Crab Trap (El Vuelco del Cangrejo, 2009) that reveals the true translation of the film's title. Daniel, a "white" stranger, has drifted into the Afro-Colombian coastal village of La...
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