What constitutes a cult classic? It’s a term that has been used to describe when a film has failed to find a large audience and instead collected a small but devoted following. Does that definition still hold true? In part, yes. However, there are plenty of films that have failed commercially but are able to […]
Day: October 10, 2018
Cold War – VIFF 2018 Review
Gracefully charting the delirious highs and heartbreaking lows of the excited love affair between a composer named Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and a folk singer named Zula (Joanna Kulig) as they conform to the sour vagaries of life in post-war Poland under Communist rule, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is an achingly lovely achievement. Like Ida (2013), […]
- Features
- ...
10 Movie Masterpieces You Might Have Never Seen
Magnum opus, masterpiece, chef d’ oeuvre or swan’s song. Regardless of what we choose to name it, we know what we speak of when we speak of an immensely great work of art and in this case film. The ones in this list may be indeed what the word betrays, the master’s greatest work or […]