The new poster for How To Train Your Dragon 2 has been released, and the excitement has only built up for one super fan of the first film. Yes, that super fan is yours truly, and I am not ashamed to admit the fact. I may be an adult, I may not have children, and […]
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AFI FEST 2013 Movie Review: The Collaborative Vision In ‘A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness’
One wouldn’t necessarily guess it, but A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness, a collaborative effort by two of the leading lights of international experimental film, Ben Rivers (UK) and Ben Russell (US), is an enquiry as to where utopia(s) may exist (as noted in interviews and screening introductions). Possible locations, it is suggested, are […]
Agnès Varda’s Most Personal And Emotional Film, ‘Documenteur’
Agnès Varda has cited Documenteur as her favourite of her own films, presumably because even more than The Beaches of Agnes (2008), it is her most personal and most emotional. She was apart from her husband Demy on her second trip to Los Angeles, at the start of the ‘80s, to develop a script (turned […]
AFI FEST 2013 Movie Review: A Perfectly Enjoyable, Meaningless Good Time With ‘Tom At The Farm’
Wunderkind Xavier Dolan never seems to make it to the AFI festival because he’s always off shooting his next movie (four movies by the age of 24 and Cannes prizes galore). He was in production on this one when last year’s Laurence Anyways screened, a continuation and expansion of the high-pitched emotional drama of his […]
AFI FEST 2013 Movie Review: Cannes Un Certain Regard Winner ‘L’Inconnu Du Lac’
It’s understandable that Alain Guiraudie won the best director of Un certain regard at Cannes this year, since for the most part L’inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake) is a very tight piece of work, effectively exploring the time and place of a single location and milieu, charting the uncertainties that blossom as a […]