soul food movies

Pacific Theatre audiences will remember Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and Aleks Paunovic's frightening, vulnerable performance - directe...

Ingrid Bergman & Roberto Rossellini at VIFF Sun Jan 17 Stromboli | 3pm Journey To Italy | 6:50pm both screenings at the VanCity...

Lots to see these days, and with the Blue Jays out of the post-season, I've got the time. Here's what's on my list just now… ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...