soul food movies

from Cannes... BEYOND THE HILLS (După dealuri) Romania/France/Belgium | Dir: Cristian Mungiu A nun is torn between her devotion...

Lancashire workers enjoy the ‘wakes week’ holiday in this early film from travelling filmmakers Mitchell & Kenyon. This short film wa...

extraordinary soul food. previous post from viff 2011. THE MILL AND THE CROSS vancity  aug 17 8:45 | aug 18 6:45 Poland, 2011, 35m...

The top fifty, selected by 846 critics, academics, programmers and distributors. All the details on the once-a-decade poll can be found at t...

In about 15 minutes, Sight & Sound magazine will begin announcing the results of their once-a-decade poll of critics and directors - cer...

Higher Ground is a 2011 film that examines a woman's experiences in a slightly-post-Jesus-People church community through the seventies ...

July 2012: currently showing on Canadian Netflix   Nine years after the murder of three people in Montgomery, Texas, in 2001, Werner...

The DVD is out, including two cuts. The one that was in theatres, of which the director approved, and a second cut by the director himself....

The first “Spider-Man” came out in 2002, followed by its obligatory sequels in 2004 and 2007. If you are a twenty-year-old male of unvarnis...

DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA was the first full-length play Jason Goode had directed. So how's this - he received word of his Jessie Rich...

photo credit: Last Exit To Nowhere

I've heard Scott talk about film - Taxi Driver, in fact - and that makes me think this would be terrific. Insightful, enthusiastic. He r...

"And they said my career was over after 'The Godfather.'" Brad Stratton, Franklin, Wis. The New Yorker, June 4 & 11, ...

Nothing particularly Soul Foodish about this one. But I'm in love. After the screening, I asked Carole if she liked it. "Yes. But ...

Note from my movie pal Peter Not sure whether you're that into the deca-annual Sight & Sound poll. (I certainly get excited abo...

The first scene is set in an undesignated patch of outer space, where some masked moaner yaks on in a rich and threatening baritone. I coul...

Big Whit Stillman fan. So how is it that I completely missed DAMSELS IN DISTRESS when it played Vancouver, after so long a wait since THE LA...

In a year when I've seen so few movies, it may be no great distinction that MARGARET is far and away my favourite. But I suspect that in...

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.  Check out Saving Grace  - not the dope-growing Saving Grace from 2000, and not th...

by Krystin Ver Linden