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VIFF 2012 Wrap-Up: All Apologies, A Mere Life, and In the Name of Love
Emily Tang's beautiful, smart, and moving Perfect Life is not only one of my favorite VIFF films of 2008, but one of my favorite films period (I don't keep a list, I just know that the memorable ones must... More »
  

VIFF 2012 Dispatch: THE CAPSULE, A STORY FOR THE MODLINS, And MORNING OF ST ANTHONY'S DAY
Though Athina Rachel Tsangari's short film The Capsule played third after two others, I'm reviewing it first as it was the title with which the other two were programmed (i.e. you show up to see a showing of The... More »
  

VIFF 2012 Dispatch: NAMELESS GANGSTER, TWO JACKS, and STARLET
I would pretty much watch any film starring Choi Min-sik at this point, and his towering performance as a befuddled civil worker who weasels and networks his way to the top of the crime underworld in Busan is reason enough... More »
  

VIFF 2012 Dispatch: SLEEPLESS NIGHT and SORRY, I AM SO SORRY
Korean filmmaker Jang Kun-jae (whose Eighteen won the Dragons & Tigers award, VIFF's prize for new Asian directors, in 2009) delivers a heartfelt, sweet, genuine, yet never cloying portrayal of an average married couple in Sleepless Night. Essentially a series... More »
  

LADDALAND Review
Sopon Sukdapist has been involved with some of the better Thai horrors in recent memory--he was the director of Coming Soon, and has writing credits on Alone and Shutter. With 2011's Laddaland, he keenly helms a sumptuously shot, well-acted... More »
  

THE SKIN I LIVE IN Review
Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In, despite its soapy, pulpy surface sheen and audaciously entertaining sci-fi-psychosexual-thriller plot, is not a film to be taken lightly. It's a film that features two sexy leads (Antonio Banderas as Robert is... More »
  

VIFF 2011: THE OTHER CALIFORNIANS Review
The Other Californians is a documentary about "rancheros" living in Baja California, Mexico. Most of us know the term "rancheros," which conjures up images of rugged, Mexican cowboys. This connotation is only partially accurate--but what you may not know... More »
  

VIFF 2011: THE TURIN HORSE Review
Before I even attempt to review The Turin Horse, I have to make clear that it is only the second Bela Tarr film I've seen, after Man from London. Since Tarr is very obviously the definition of an auteur,... More »
  

VIFF 2011: QUATTRO HONG KONG 2 Review
Quattro Hong Kong 2 is the second instalment in a series of short films funded by and intended to promote the Hong Kong International Film Festival. This year's four shorts come from Brilliante Mendoza (Philippines), Ho Yuchang (Malaysia), Apichatpong... More »
  

VIFF 2011: TARGET Review
Alexander Zeldovich's Russian sci-fi spectacle, Target, certainly deserves points for ambition. At over two and a half hours in length, the film--which is set in the year 2020--revolves around six characters who reside in futuristic Moscow. They are linked... More »
  

VIFF 2010: CHICKS Review
In Sophie Letourneur's unassumingly fantastic debut, Chicks (French title being the more elegant La Vie au Ranch, which means Life at the Ranch), a gaggle of directionless 20-something young ladies traipse through their Parisian, smoky, beer-goggled and boy-crazy lives... More »
  

VIFF 2010: CITY OF LIFE Review
Like many people witnessing its rapid growth and obscene architectural preening (construction had recently been completed on the Burj Dubai, now the world's tallest building by quite the margin) from afar, I find Dubai to be an endlessly fascinating... More »
  

VIFF 2010: SNOW WHITE Review
As someone who knows next to nothing about ballet, I must confess I chose to see Angelin Preljocaj's Snow White only because of its the striking promotional image--the appropriately pale heroine lying nude in a sea of blood-red apples--and... More »
  

VIFF 2010: COLD FISH Review
Is there anything worse--in terms of cinema-going, not actual world issues, natch--than the feeling of dread and mild betrayal of watching a film you've greatly enjoyed start turning to shit? Wanting so hard for things to swing back up... More »
  
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