soul food movies

Excerpted from LUCKY MAN: Horton Foote's three acts by John Lahr The New Yorker , October 26, 2009 "If a poet knows more about a ho...

In my new post at Filmwell , I get snarky about television...

Anthony Lane, The New Yorker , October 12 2009 The new Ricky Gervais film, THE INVENTION OF LYING, postulates a world in which no one has ev...

Quick note about three Soul Food-ish titles playing this week. YOU, THE LIVING is at Pacific Cinematheque Thursday night only, 7:30. More ...

Marvelous post at My Modern Met blog, featuring new posters for well-known films created by a number of graphic artists, in a retro / moder...

I don't think the first decade of the new millennium actually ends until 2010 is over, does it? But people are starting to tally their ...

The White Ribbon ["Das Weisse Band"] (Austria , Germany , France, Italy, 2009, 144 mins, 35mm) Mon, Oct 12th 9:00pm | Empire Granv...

Letters to Father Jacob [Finland] Thu, Oct 15th 6:20pm Empire Granville 7 A simple but transcendent story about faith and human frailty ach...

From The Front Row , Richard Brody's New Yorker movie blog... "Macy Halford worries that religious conservatives in America are get...

Soul Food friend Judy Graves is the person at the City of Vancouver who is our point person for homelessness. (Some people say she's re...

Whilst my father prayed earnestly to God to protect commerce, I would offer up secretly the proudest prayer a boy could think of. “Lord, mak...

Note from Soul Foodie Rosie Perera... Hi Ron, Here’s something to blog about at Soul Food Movies. The full festival details are here . I’...

I approach this one with dread and fascination. DOGVILLE was very tough going, but ended up among my top three favourite films ever, alongsi...

This is a musical, and there's always someone to catch me. You get the impression Lars is a messed up guy, and that just maybe he's ...

In May I launched a summer movie-watching project, 34 Films I DO Want To See Before I Die . Now, I didn't see nearly as many films as I...

In the wake of TIFF, Roger Ebert sounds the alarm about distribution for independent film - bad news for CREATION , for example - and points...

For those of you who don't see the comments when you view the blog, N.W. Douglas brought the unhappy news that SERAPHINE has been and go...

THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (1998, USA, Whit Stillman) I'm going to turn over a new leaf in Spain. I'm going to turn over several new le...

From the New Yorker review of JULIE AND JULIA. "The movie is memorable, of course, for Streep’s performance. Like a tall ship at full ...

NEXT TARANTINO MOVIE AN HOMAGE TO BELOVED TARANTINO MOVIES OF DIRECTOR'S YOUTH September 7, 2009 | The Onion | Issue 45-37 MADRID—While ...