Scott Wood's reviews of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival continue...
Necrobusiness
Director: Fredrik von Krusenstjerna and Richard Solarz, Sweden, 2008, 90 minutes
Wednesday May 27 | 7:00PM | Vancity Theatre
Necrobusiness is about the seamy side of the undertaking business. Now you might expect a Dateline style, serious take on the subject. Instead the director finds himself an earnest but streetwise investigative journalist, Monika Sieradzka, to track down these nefarious gents.
Scott Wood's reviews of the DOXA Documentary Film Festival continue...
Devil’s Bargain: A Journey into the Small Arms Trade
Director: Shelley Saywell, Canada, 2008, 89 minutes
Thursday May 28 | 6:30PM | Vancity Theatre
Canadian Premiere
An age old story... War is very profitable. In today's world, weapons filter from the world's most wealth countries, specifically the US and reach the most worn countries torn via desperate arms dealers in equaly poor countries.
CJSF volunteer, Scott Wood, attends and reviews the DOXA documentary film festival...
The Dungeon Masters
Director: Keven McAlester, USA, 2008, 93 minutes
Tuesday May 26 | 9:00PM | Vancity Theatre
CJSF volunteer, Scott Wood, reports from the DOXA documentary film festival...
Transit Dubai
Director: Ineke Smits, The Netherlands, 2008, 72 minutes
Monday May 25 | 8:30PM | Pacific Cinémathèque
North American Premiere!
A line-up forms on Arbutus Street, near 16th Avenue, snakes past the Ridge Theatre, and rounds the curb. A smattering of languages is heard throughout the line, including Hebrew, English, Spanish, Russian, and Polish. The crowd is in line to see ‘Beau Jest’, the play-turned-film from writer-director James Sherman.
The Vancouver Jewish Film Festival Mini-Fest goes from March 28th to 30th. Kate Lerman attends and reviews...
In its 21st year, the Vancouver Jewish Film Festival has been moved from the Spring, to the Fall. The First Annual Mini-Fest was created as a transition for the change.
CJSF volunteer, Kate Lerman, attended the new Gus Van Sant film "Milk," a bio-pic about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected into office in the United States...
Like probably many people, I began to know Patti Smith by the songs off her 1978 album, Easter. Not being from my generation, I’ve only known her work for a couple of years, but she’s had a cult like following for a lot longer then that. Her name is always mentioned with a mysterious, implicit humbleness.
I was ready to learn why. Being honest, I didn’t know much more about her music other then the song “Rock N Roll Nigger”, and from the song intro, that she is an American artist. Anything this controversial asks for an explanation.
Director Carl Laudan screened his film, Sheltered Life, at theatre Pacific Cinematheque as a Canadian feature in the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Sheltered Life focuses on the serendipitous relationships that Josephine Nash, a Suburban school girl and, her mother Candice, develop when they check-in to a women’s shelter in anonymous, small town, Canada. Under one roof, the two find friendship and support in the disjointed network of a refuge.
As part of CJSF's coverage of the Vancouver International Film Festival, volunteer Alisha Edgelow reviews Fierce Light, a film worth seeing when it returns to Vancouver...
“A film really isn’t born until its viewed with its audience”
These were the words of acclaimed filmmaker Velcrow Ripper just moments before the premiere of his film, Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action; indeed this feat was accomplished with a thrilling standing ovation from a packed theatre, leaving me with chills up my spine and a tear in my eye.
