Scribbles and Ramblings

Calgary International Film Festival 2011 Every year I joyfully look forward to the 10 day cinematic adventure that is the Calgary Internat...

A spotlight on Claire Denis featuring the following 5 films: Nénette et Boni (1996) Beau Travail (1999) Friday Night (2002) L’Intrus...

Michelangelo Frammartino’s remarkable debut film uses an unnamed town in Calabria as an observatory to examine the metaphysical circle of l...

I decided to catch up with Terrence Malick’s first two films and revisit his third and fourth features while waiting for the eventual relea...

Every year for a few weeks I set aside films and books and instead focus exclusively on reading graphic novels. The experience is always enr...

When I started digging for Korean films 6-7 years ago, the name of Hong Sang-soo came up quite often. Unfortunately, I could not find a sing...

Montreal’s World Film Festival is now in its 35th year but somehow it is invisible to most of English speaking Canada and much of North Am...

Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival is in a class of its own. It is one of the best genre film festivals in the world and as such enterta...