To read other VIFF coverage, click here Graduation Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation stands at the front what seems to be a Romanian New Wave resurgence. Graduation, which seems to be the most talked about of the bunch, is also the bleakest, most melancholy and claustrophobic…
Movie Review: The Age of Shadows
The Age of Shadows seems to operate on two fronts, the first as a war epic—both sweeping and compact—of chases, gunfights and espionage, used as much for dramatic interplay as it is cloak and dagger. The second is a melodrama of…
5 Movies You Didn’t Know Were Influenced By Akira Kurosawa
It’d be almost redundant to describe Akira Kurosawa’s works as influential. His career, spanning six decades, has resulted in numerous films that have tried to emulate his works (but never with an equal result). This week, The Magnificent Seven was released, reminding us yet again…
10 Remakes That Turned Out To Be Classics
As movie lovers we’ve grown accustomed to collectively wincing every time we hear that a favourite classic is being remade. The same might be true for the upcoming The Magnificent Seven (2016), but let’s not forget that the original Magnificent Seven (1960) was too a…
5 Information Age Icons Who Should Have Their Own Movie
This week Snowden is released, continuing a popular trend in Hollywood films that focuses specifically on the people who make the Information Age a media firestorm. Edward Snowden is perhaps the most popular one, Citizenfour made him a household name, Snowden (starring…
The Film Canon: Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant, set in a particularly grimy-looking New York, lugs around enough Catholic-guilt, crooked cops, cocaine snorting and a somewhat-conscious Harvey Keitel to remind us of the great crime dramas Martin Scorsese made back in the ’70s. Bad Lieutenant is…
Movie Review: Little Men
Little Men reaches a dramatic peak in the evolution, or more suitably the “maturation” for director Ira Sachs, whose fondness for New York City is matched only by his fondness for its inhabitants. The first of his distinctly New York…
