Two years after the release of his debut novel Losing Dominion, Vancouver-based writer Mark McLean revisits themes of journeying, searching (however literal or metaphorical), personal reflection and familial relations in a new work of fiction entitled The Atheist Who Went To Church. On top of a job at the Vancouver Aquarium, Thomas Forrester balances questions […]
The Pacific Cinematheque is one my favourite places to catch a movie and recently, this non-profit theatre screened a special series of films entitled “Paris x3”. This showcase was comprised of three movies all set in, you guessed it, Paris. On Saturday I saw one of these three when I went to the screening of […]
Set in the birthplace of some of our modern conceptualizations of existentialism, Jacques Rivette’s 1981 hyper-real narrative of two women wandering around Paris —Le Pond Du Nord — still retains its sense of mystery and serendipity after thirty-plus years. Both women, the claustrophobic idealistic ex-con Marie (played by Bulle Ogier) and her eminently eccentric sidekick […]
Two years after the release of his debut novel Losing Dominion, Vancouver-based writer Mark McLean revisits themes of journeying, searching (however literal or metaphorical), personal reflection and familial relations in a new work of fiction entitled The Atheist Who Went To Church. On top of a job at the Vancouver Aquarium, Thomas Forrester balances questions […] 