Out of Body Experiences in Icaros: A Vision By Adam Cook Icaros: A Vision is not your typical film with a satisfying beginning, middle and end — but if you approach it in the right mindset, open to its particular structure and aim, it can be an experience you wont soon forget. It’s inspired by … Continue reading
On The Road Forward: An Interview with Marie Clements By Adam Cook One of the most gifted artists working in BC today, Métis playwright and filmmaker Marie Clements has reached a new level of achievement with her documentary-musical, The Road Forward. Produced by The NFB, the film is a look at the history of activism … Continue reading
The Best of Hot Docs at Vancity Theatre By Adam Cook From July 7-11th we’ll be bringing some of the best of the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival to Vancouver at our own Vancity Theatre—with one very special bonus screening of a Hot Docs’ first original project, In the Name of All Canadians. But first … Continue reading
Finland’s Would-Be Boxing Hero By Adam Cook Olli Maki carried the hope of an entire nation. In 1962, the amateur turned professional boxer was poised to take on standing champ American Davey Moore, a milestone for Finnish boxing. But as Juho Kuosmanen’s wonderful film, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki, shows us, … Continue reading
Behind Closed Doors: Frederick Wiseman’s Titicut Follies By Adam Cook On June 13th, we’re screening Frederick Wiseman’s breakthrough masterpiece Titicut Follies to honour its 50th anniversary. In the five decades following this film’s controversial release—more on that later—Wiseman has spent his prolific career peeking into American institutions, and picking them apart, but not with the … Continue reading
Land of Mine: A Different Kind of War Film By Adam Cook The most intense war-time drama since Kathryn Bigelow’s riveting Oscar-winner, The Hurt Locker, Land of Mine is a harrowing look at man’s inhumanity to man during a relatively forgotten period in Denmark after the end of WWII. Denmark’s border was filled with thousands … Continue reading
