soul food movies

films with a spiritual flavour

Monday, September 26, 2011

new to dvd | better world, morin, cunningham, murder songs

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Various soul food movies are new to dvd the past month or so, and well worth renting - if you can figure out how to do that. In Canada right...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

higher ground

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Opened Sep 23. Sounds intriguing. HIGHER GROUND International Village through Thu Oct 6 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 SHE HAS FAITH, BUT SHE...
Saturday, September 17, 2011

viff | soul food picks

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CORPO CELESTE | Fri 30 5:30 G7 | Sat 1 9pm G7 | Mon 3 1:00 G7 FOOTNOTE | Tue Oct 4 7:00 Vogue/Visa | Tue 11 4:15 Vogue/Visa JESUS WAS...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

the planting + wait for rain | viff | oct 9-12

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Kyle Rideout directed a memorable production of THE GREAT DIVORCE at Pacific Theatre this past spring, and Jason Goode's DANNY & THE...

sep 14-18 | stalker | cinematheque

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It's placed on all five Arts & Faith 100 lists. It's Tarkovsky. Love it or hate it - and most folks are pretty much one or the o...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

fog of war / re:union / sep 11 / videomatica

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Watched FOG OF WAR last night, having just heard Sean Devine's new play RE:UNION Wednesday. Wow - the two are like companion pieces. No...
Monday, September 05, 2011

VIFF | FOOTNOTE

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No dates and times yet - the full schedule hits the streets Sep 17 - but here's a Soul Food highlight gleaned from the Sneak Preview gui...
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viff | corpo celeste

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Looks more like Church Bash than Soul Food, but you never know.... CORPO CELESTE Italy/Switzerland/France | Dir: Alice Rohrwacher | View...
Friday, August 26, 2011

the secret of the kells | ken priebe

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Animator Ken Priebe has just posted an in-depth look at The Secret of the Kells at his website, Breath Of Animation .
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

sep 3 | stalker | eye of newt score

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When PT presented The Passion Project in the 2010 PuSh Festival, it was paired with another exploration of Dreyer's masterpiece of silen...

peter bradshaw on tree of life

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Isn't the end of that first paragraph disheartening? I kind of thought maybe the planet was beyond that crap. Oh well, some things just ...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Ebert's Ten

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I'm watching The Third Man this week, and this morning I went sniffing around the internet to see what I could see. Found my way, in tha...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

aug 28 | m*a*s*h | cineplex classic films

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M*A*S*H (1970) "M*A*S*H Gives a D*A*M*N" Directed by: Robert Altman Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, Rober...
Friday, August 19, 2011

aug 19-21 | videomatica weekend

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As you know, our favourite video store is closing. But they're going out in style - this weekend, they've taken over the VanCity The...

Anne Lamott on LATCHO DROM

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LATCHO DROM (SAFE PASSAGE, 1993, France) "But oh, the old women dancing: the old women who shine with the incredible stirring of spi...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

Secret Sunshine on Criterion

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New Criterion  release. I saw this at the VIFF a few years ago, a Korean story about a woman in desperate straits who becomes involved wit...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

aug 17 & 28 | m*a*s*h | cineplex classic films

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M*A*S*H (1970) "M*A*S*H Gives a D*A*M*N" Directed by: Robert Altman Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, Rober...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

watching for... SUING THE DEVIL

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Trailer looks a little shoddy, but intriguing premise. In theatres Aug 26. Double feature with "The Man Who Sued God"?
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

mubi | my father my lord

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Soul Food Movie pal Rosie Perera recommends this recent find: "beautiful, powerful, challenging, worth discussing. Definitely soul food...
Friday, July 22, 2011

the new world | lumia

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Terrence Malick's ... cosmically tinged movie, about a family in Waco, Texas, in the nineteen-fifties, and the creation of the world, a...
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I'm an actor, writer, and director, the founding artistic director (now 'emeritus') of Vancouver's Pacific Theatre. I've got a podcast, Soul Food Ghost Light, a late-night pirate radio show where I play exactly what I want. My blogs include Date Movies (not what you think), and Oblations.
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