According to the renowned pschotherapist Carl Jung, man is universally divided between his personal and collective unconscious. According to a Frenchman with a videocamera and an insomniac imagination named Michel Gondry, he’s also permanently divided between man and boy. Best known as director of such films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and, um, […]
Month: October 2016
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The 15 Best Movies of 2016 at VIFF
Now that the sun has set on the 35th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (which ran from September 29th to October 14th, 2016), Taste of Cinema offers up our favorites from what was a bustling, exciting, and very impressive festival. The films on this list show a wide-ranging assortment including animation, auteur-driven films, populist fare, […]
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Tom Tapes: The Cinematic Appearances of Tom Waits and His Music
Since the 70’s, Tom Waits has established himself as a phenomenally unique and gifted performer. Beginning as more of a singer/songwriter, he became a poet of the gutter and seedy bar, as well as a perpetuator of both the classic Americana song tradition and that of the German music hall, in stylings of Kurt Weill […]
Pulling Focus: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
“Death is not the worst. There are things more horrible than death.” – Count Dracula (played by Klaus Kinski) Blood on your cool Pronounced and menacing, Werner Herzog’s redaction of Nosferatu should not be viewed, as he insists, as a remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 horror classic of German silent cinema––what Herzog describes as […]
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The 10 Best New Zealand Movies of All Time
In the early 1990s, the British Film Institute launched the Century of Cinema Series in attempt to explore the various examples of national cinemas around the world. Cinema of Unease, written and directed by Kiwi actor Sam Neil, was New Zealand’s contribution to this project. Although his attitudes towards this topic have gradually changed, Sam […]
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10 Underrated Early-Career Performances From Great Actors
For any respected film actor, a long resume’ usually leads to them achieving their best or most remembered work in the middle of their careers. But in almost every case, the reason they were able to gain their status as an actor who is depended upon is because they showed such promise early, and for […]