With the advent of new technologies, it’s perhaps expected that their predecessors will fade into disuse, but not so with black and white films. Despite the vast array of options available to filmmakers today, the monochrome look still holds appeal, with Korea’s Bong Joon-ho recently rereleasing his Oscar-winning film Parasite in black and white. Making […]
Day: September 26, 2020
Last and First Men – VIFF 2020 Review
Perhaps best known, in North America at least, for his incredibly moving minimalist score for Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016), amongst others, Icelandic composer and filmmaker Jóhan Jóhannsson’s Last and First Men, released posthumously, makes for one haunting, honey of a post-apocalyptic parting gift. Jóhannsson, who tragically passed away in 2018 from an accidental overdose at […]