must see films

There’s something deeply disturbing about the hopelessness one encounters in Robert Bresson’s 1977 film Le Diable Probablement about a youth who’s attempting to find meaning

Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) is accustomed to a life of luxury – vintage cars, clothing stamped with expensive initials, and an endless flow of vodka –

Human beings seem to have the strange and often overwhelming desire to push themselves to their limits and prove their worth. Whether it’s the entrepreneur

Suddenly my dreams are flooded with colour and adorable animated kitties and tree-squirrels and other unspecified cute n’ fuzzy creatures who talk to me in

In a few weeks, Woody Allen will be releasing his annual movie for our viewing pleasure. For the past half-century, Woody has been a constant

The punishing effects of heavy rains and flooding in Calgary and more recently, Toronto, are still fresh in our collective memory. It seems like the

Like his 1998 feature The Celebration (Festen), which kicked off the Dogme 95 movement, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt is a social horror movie.

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

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

The intense and competitive world of ballet is thrown into the spotlight in First Position. Directed by Bess Kargman, the documentary investigates the lives of

Japanese cartoons on the silver screen for a whole month. Hell. Yeah. The Cinematheque is presenting a series-feature on the works of Studio Ghibli: the pinnacle

Don’t go in that water! NO! Don’t do it! I know it seems like a great idea when your head is light with beer fumes,