soul food movies

films with a spiritual flavour

Thursday, January 01, 2015

YEFF 2014 | MCN + Metacritic | Combined List | Jan 1 2015

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Canadian film won Jury Prize at Cannes 2014 Screens at Vancouver Intl Film Centre tonight at 6:50 ONLY As of New Year'...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

YEFF 2014 | Movie City News + Metacritic | Combined List

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Each year, Movie City News compiles tons of critic top ten lists at the end of the year and comes up with a pretty good tally of what wa...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

YEFF 2014 | Movie City News | The First List

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The Year End Film Festival kicks into higher gear with the first MCN tabulation of critic top ten lists  (12/10). The results are always hig...
Friday, December 05, 2014

top 2014 films | dec 5 + 6 etc | force majeur + babadook

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The YEFF is upon us. Lots of the year's top films show up on local screens from mid-November through mid-January, and year-end Top Ten l...
Monday, June 02, 2014

jun 2/4/5 | we are the best! | lukas moodysson

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Three chances to see this one, featured in the May issue of Sight & Sound. "A pair of disgruntled punks - shy 13-year-old Bobo and...
Friday, May 02, 2014

may 2 & 16 | sagrada

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This puts me in mind of the first fully staged Pacific Theatre production, in the spring of 1985. THE ZEAL OF THY HOUSE, Dorothy Sayers'...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

broadchurch

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Season One just arrived at Black Dog . As I said when I first heard about this from Jeff Overstreet, it  might just slip past my aversion to...
Friday, March 21, 2014

the police officer's wife

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from "A Tale Of Two Festivals: Venice" by Olaf Moller Film Comment, Nov/Dec 2013 "... the Special Jury Prize for Philip...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

oct 26 29 30 | wings of desire | cinematheque

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Wings Of Desire is certainly one to see on the big screen, if at all possible: and Cinemathque is making that possible, even for free if you...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

oct 18-23 | nostalghia | pacific cinematheque

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tarkovsky + big screen = soul food enough said Okay, I'll say more. This Tarko isn't as explicitly about matters of faith as, say...

oct 16 | tyrannosaur | pacific cinematheque

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Here's one I had long ago flagged as potential Soul Food - perhaps in the same sort of register as HARDCORE, REVANCHE, or the films of L...
Monday, September 09, 2013

sep 26 - oct 11 | viff

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One of the great pleasures of September - compensating in part for summer's end and the return to work - is the Vancouver International ...
Friday, September 06, 2013

son of the return of soul food movies

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Okay. A couple posts ago I mentioned The Movie Discovery Of The Summer.  But I didn't mention what that discovery might be. Public lib...
Wednesday, September 04, 2013

the return of soul food movies

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I've always loved film. For about a decade - let's say 1997 to 2007 - it was my Big Non-Theatre Obsession. (I cycle through those...
Monday, June 17, 2013

SUPERMAN (1978, 1980, 2006)

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SUPERMAN (1978, USA, Richard Donner, screenplay Mario Puzo, David & Leslie Newman, Robert Benton, Tom Mankiewicz) SUPERMAN II (1980, US...
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Saturday, June 01, 2013

jun 20-27 | caesar must die | vancity

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Not straight up "Soul Food" here, but a film that fascinates me nevertheless. THE great This American Life episode of all time has...

jul 26-28 | screening jesus | regent college

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Quite extraordinary, really. SON OF MAN is my favourite Jesus film. It played VIFF a few years ago, and I attended both screenings, and sear...
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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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