soul food movies

Gleanings from the summer Film Comment, mostly of Soul Food or VIFF interest... Brace yourself. Two radical innovations are in store for ...

Pacific Theatre regular Craig Erickson and David Adams ("Jesus My Boy") are in the cast of this loving tribute to the movie ghosts...

And here's a handful of other films in the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival that caught my eye for one reason or another... ...

Quite a few new works by some of the world's most interesting directors at the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival. In another po...

I don't know if there are more Cannes-feted films at the 2010 Vancouver International Film Festival than other years, or if more of them...

New Soul Food series! A spin on Film Comment's feature "The Last 10 Films I've Seen," Soul Food - being more forward-looki...

The standout Soul Food pick at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival is clearly Of Gods And Men , which won the Grand Prix a...

Kenneth Lonergan wrote three significant screenplays: YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, which is perfection, and if you haven't seen it you must; GAN...

Get Low (Aaron Schneider, 2009, Chris Provenzano / C. Gaby Mitchell screenplay) might be considered the third in the Robert Duvall Faith Tr...

A quick heads up. Filmmaker Jason Goode writes... Soul Food. Masterpiece. The real deal. Loved it. When it was done I felt "finally... ...

Casablanca (1943) "They had a date with fate in Casablanca!" Directed by: Michael Curtiz Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Pa...

Look what I saw in the lobby at SilverCity Riverport yesterday... A little sleuthing led me to more about the Classic Film Series being off...

OF GODS AND MEN France, Xavier Beauvois, 120 min. A French brotherhood stationed in a deseret mountain monastery in Algeria holds off Islami...

REJOICE AND SHOUT USA, Don McGlynn, 115 min. Don McGlynn has made films about musicians as diverse as Glenn Miller and Howlin' Wolf, and...

It's grey, damp and chilly out, so one's thoughts naturally turn to... The Vancouver International Film Festival! Sneak Preview Gui...

I picked up a copy of Craig Detweiler's Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century (2008) at Regent College ...

Inspired by a nifty double bill I missed in May at the Cinematheque... [ Breathless Days , a double bill that paired Godard's New Wave c...

Watched IT MIGHT GET LOUD tonight (very fine), which ends with The Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White working through The Band's classic so...

"Juno is a whip-smart teen confronting an unplanned pregnancy..." Movieyay.com "god bless the whip-smart, snarky and powerful...

(thanks, jer)