CJSF programmer, Irma Arkus takes in the first film from the Dark is Rising novels by Susan Cooper.
As a first installment of what is potentially a lucrative franchise based on Susan Cooper’s novels, the film The Seeker: The Dark is Rising begs a comparison to Harry Potter. This, of course, is damning, because Potter films and book franchise allows for the kind of funding that in reality only Peter Jackson would deserve. Let’s just say, that it is an unfair starting point.
On Saturday October 6th, Scott Wood, host of the interview show, attended the Vancouver International Film Festival’s screening of The Champagne Spy.
The Champagne Spy
Germany/Israel, 2007, 91 min
Directed By Nadav Schirman
On Saturday October 6th, Scott Wood, host of the interview show, attended the Vancouver International Film Festival’s screening of Between Heaven and Earth.
Between Heaven and Earth
Tussen Hemel en Aarde
Netherlands, 2007, 72 min
Directed By Frank van den Engel and Masha Novikova
These days when entertainers take on a cause, it often causes an uproar in the press. Madonna or Angelina Jolie adopting babies is seen as a fashion statement. Leonardio DiCaprio making documentaries about climate change is a vanity project.
On Saturday October 6th, Scott Wood, host of the interview show, attended the Vancouver International Film Festival’s screening of One Hundred Nails.
One Hundred Nails
Italy, 2007, 92 min, 35mm
Directed By Ermanno Olmi
On Sunday September 30th, Scott Wood, host of the interview show, attended the Vancouver International Film Festival’s screening of The War On Democracy.
The War on Democracy
UK, 2007, 95 min, 35mm
Directed By: John Pilger
On Saturday September 29th, Scott Wood, host of the interview show, attended the Vancouver International Film Festival’s screening of Great World of Sound.
Great World of Sound
USA, 2006, 106 min, 35mm
Directed By: Craig Zobel
Cast: Pat Healy, Kene Holliday, Rebecca Mader, Tricia Paoluccio and Robert Longstreet
Many people fresh out of university get trapped into a soul-sucking sales job during that tender time when they are trying to figure out how to move forward in the “real world.”
On Friday September 28th, Scott Wood, host of the interview show, attended the Vancouver International Film Festival’s screening of Terror’s Advocate.
Terror's Advocate (L' Avocat de la terreur)
France, 2007, 138 min, 35mm
Directed By: Barbet Schroeder
Rose Marie Borutski, Host of Health Matters (Fridays 4-5pm) viewed 49 UP, by film maker Michael Apted, which played at the Pacific Cinematheque. This extrordinary documentary is part of a long-standing series that makes one ask some very deep questions about life choices. Imagine how you would answer some really, really tough questions every seven years....
The Notorious Bettie Page, directed by Mary Harron and written by Harron and Guinevere Turner, opens in the lower mainland April 28th. CJSF’s Susan Grossman reviews…
The Notorious Bettie Page, directed by Mary Harron and written by Harron and Guinevere Turner, is a film about the “pin-up queen of the universe,” Bettie Page. The film follows Page, adeptly played by Gretchen Mol, beginning with her days as a young church-going schoolgirl in the South to her rise as an iconoclastic sex symbol and her subsequent return to religious life.
Little Fish, written and directed by Rowan Woods, is a film about a dysfunctional family learning to cope with the lies and betrayals of their recent past.
