Scribbles and Ramblings

Taming the Garden (2021, Georgia/Switzerland, Salomé Jashi) “A picture is worth a thousand words”.   In this case, the picture left me speec...

 Take the Ball, Pass the Ball (2018, Spain, Duncan McMath)   Based on Graham Hunter’s book, Barça: The Making of the Greatest Team in the Wo...

Rooftop View Havana, from on High (2019, Canada, Pedro Ruiz) Following images are from the documentary. At the start of the film, we get to ...

 A Machine to Live In (2020, USA, Yoni Goldstein/Meredith Zielke) A city is made by its people, within the bounds of the possibilities that ...

Notturno (2020, Italy/France/Germany, Gianfranco Rosi) Gianfranco Rosi’s Fuocoammare ( Fire at Sea ) depicted the arrival of refugees to th...

 doc·u·men·ta·ry noun: documentary; plural noun: documentaries     a movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record o...

HOMO SAPIENS (2016, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria/Switzerland/Germany) In 2006, ruins were a tiny portion of Jia Zhang-ke's STILL...

Every year I look forward to the Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) in order to catch-up with some of the best Canadian & fore...

Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel) Every now and then comes a film that changes the way we think of cinema or e...

Jacques Tati's last directed work was a football film! Tati directed Forza Bastia , a 26 minute documentary, in 1978 but the film only...

The first time I heard a film described as an actuality was when Allan King mentioned it in the Q&A session following a special screeni...

"This is Canada?" These were the words that came to my mind when I first saw Michel Brault’s Les Ordres a few years ago. The fi...