Wong Kar Wai’s 2046 is an astonishing work of visual beauty so it’s fitting that the film be discussed in the context of a magazine dedicated to fashion and style. Bursting with vivid textures, the film is a bubbling cauldron of mood and atmosphere. Even audiences with only a casual appreciation for film craft are [...]

Seeing an Errol Morris film for the first time is one of the great pleasures of watching movies. Morris, if not the finest documentary filmmaker working today, is certainly the most significant innovator in the genre of the last 30 years. Yet for so long many of the director’s films, including his three earliest and [...]

Awesome I Fuckin’ Shot That, is labeled as an authorized bootleg which Adam Yauch (MCA) pointed out is an oxymoron. The documentary is a collection of footage shot by 50 audience members with handheld cameras at a sold-out Beastie Boys show at Madison Square Gardens in October of 2004. The film is comprised of all [...]

The best thing about being deaf is you get a really good night’s sleep whenever you want. The second best thing about being deaf is if you ever want someone to shut up, you just have to close your eyes. Sadly, when rock star DJ Frankie Wilde goes deaf, it takes him a while to [...]

If you watch DVDs on your PlayStation, you’re probably aware that it has its own little V-chip built-in. Throw in a naughty movie and the PlayStation assigns it a warning level and makes you enter a code to watch it. With its tales of sex and car accidents, David Cronenberg’s Crash scores a security level [...]

It wasn’t long ago that terrorism in America was the stuff of middle-class college kids looking to save the world. In his brilliant documentary Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, filmmaker Robert Stone recounts the exploits of the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army—a small group of leftist radicals who fought “for the cause” by robbing banks, [...]

It’s funny to think how so much of what’s good in American cinema today came down to two roommates who happened to hit it off. A bold statement, for sure, but not when you realize those roommates were Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne. Since they penned their first feature ten years ago, their collaboration has [...]

The independent film scene in Vancouver, like in all places, has been buzzing ever since DV filmmaking reared its head and promised to revolutionize the art form. While the claims of upheaval may have been overstated, it’s clear that a new generation of Vancouver filmmakers is emerging. More likely to have trained in the private [...]

In grade nine my inept English teacher gave us one of those assignments whose goal is to teach you to love poetry. A “music is just poetry with instruments” kind of thing. We had to pick a song and deconstruct the lyrics. I chose “Jocko Homo” by Devo and did what I thought was a [...]