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Written by Adam A. Donaldson
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 16:22 |
Joseph Chen is driving to the Gig Theatre in Kitchener to do a final dress rehearsal of sorts. He’s got the films to be run in his car and he’s taking them down to the venue located in downtown Kitchener to make sure the prints are ready to roll for the weekend’s 8th annual Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema.
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Written by Adam A. Donaldson
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Friday, 14 November 2008 15:54 |
Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin was paid two great compliments at Friday’s Guelph Lecture on Being Canadian. One audience member told him that his movies remind her of dreams in the way their filmed. The first thing he does when he makes a new film, Guy Maddin says, is that he tries to find a dream logic because in our waking lives we’re not allowed to do certain things; he’s trying to make music with movies
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Written by Adam A. Donaldson
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:14 |
The Guelph Festival for Moving Media proved to be bigger and better than ever this year with a diverse slate that brought out many large crowds and solicited a lot of interesting discussion around complex issues facing the world. Well, some of the time. Other times, the subject matter was a little more light-hearted. But let’s let the reviews speak for themselves.
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Written by Adam A. Donaldson
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 16:57 |
The Guelph Festival for Moving Media, or formally the Guelph International Film Festival, is famously known for being called “the film festival with a conscious.” But more than that, the festival is well known for the fact that there was a decade long hiatus for the event before its 2003 resurrection. But after a couple of years of development, the festival has emerged confident with a name change and a slightly bolder focus.
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Written by Adam A. Donaldson
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Friday, 31 October 2008 16:13 |
If it’s Halloween, then it’s time from another Saw picture. What’s interesting is that these films seem to be soldiering on in spite of the fact that everybody died at the end of part III (AKA: two movies ago). Of course, this wouldn’t be the first time that a once promising horror series carried on in spite of itself, but it is however the first time that filmmakers have gone to the trouble of dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s in order to make the reasons for the franchise’s continuation seem logical and reasonable.
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