‘Peepli Live’: Important, Not Excellent
”Peepli Live” has been the toast and tea of town for the better part of this past year. A Sundance selection and Berlinale screening, it has been picking up favor and five star reviews across...
August 29 2010 / View Comments / Read More
‘Krull’ Weddings: The Awkward Teenage Years of Movie Marketing
Like the plot of a dystopian fairy tale, the marketing campaign for last summer’s blockbuster “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was a well-oiled machine selling a film about machines. We saw giveaway contests, multi-platform games,...
August 16 2010 / View Comments / Read More‘Choker Bali’: The One That Got Away
As the Toronto International Film Festival approaches, it seems like a good time to reflect on the film that got away. Everyone who has...
Aug 20 2010 / View Comments / Read MoreThe Scent of Cinema: A Democratized Film Experience at Motovun
I was at the 10th Motovun Film Festival, in Croatia two summers ago, mainly to see their ‘interactive cinema programme’. Motovun is renowned as...
Jul 27 2010 / View Comments / Read MoreGood Hair, Good Humour, Good Questions
In “Good Hair” (Jeff Stilson, 2009) Chris Rock offers an initiation into the world of African-American women’s hairstyling. I was immediately excited by this...
Jul 8 2010 / View Comments / Read MoreRoman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost’: Haunted by the Author
I recently had the pleasure of seeing a Polanski film in utter innocence. As the result of a rare set of circumstances, I found...
May 10 2010 / View Comments / Read Moreblog advertising is good for you
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