As of this morning, VanRamblings has added a further four reviews to our thrived and became an institution over the years. Included in today’s update, you’ll find new reviews for Café Lumière, Campfire, Los Muertos, and Zero Day.
Tying Up Loose Ends, What’s Doing Well, and …
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EFilmCritic.com has hired Jason Whyte to provide coverage of the 23rd annual Vancouver International Film Festival. In addition to festblog.ca and coverage on VanRamblings, EFilmCritic.com is a site worth surfing to.
A couple of items picked up on the street yesterday …
- The Festival’s new Film Centre, set to open later this autumn, will operate two, smallish 170 seat state-of-the-art theatres. Word as of last evening is that the new cinemas won’t open til February 2005, and initially will screen films only two days a week. No word as to whether the VIFF will bring back ‘hit’ VIFF films without a North American distributor in place.
- Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society presents “A Conversation with Don McKellar”, moderated by Vancouver Sun film critic Katherine Monk, at Cineworks Studio at the Pacific Cinémathèque tomorrow, September 30, from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. As is the case with all seminars in this series, admission is free. Everyone is welcome.
- The 42nd annual New York Film Festival kicks off this Thursday. Several films screening at the VIFF have been selected by the New York Festival jury, including The 10th District Court — Moments of Trial, Café Lumière, Moolaadé, Or (My Treasure), Tarnation, Tropical Malady, Woman Is the Future of Man, and The World.
- Sold out screenings as of this writing (tickets available at the door half-an-hour before showtime, otherwise each film is considered to have been sold out) include: 20 Fingers (Oct. 3, 11:30 a.m.), As Life Goes By (Oct. 3, 7:15 p.m.), Berlin Blues (Oct. 2, 9:15 p.m.), Camping Sauvage (Oct. 2, 6 p.m.), Captive (Oct 1, 9 p.m.), Childstar (Oct. 3, 11 a.m.), Chokher Bali: A Passion Play (Oct. 2, 3 p.m.), Clean (Sept. 30, 9:45 p.m.), Cop Festival Reloaded (Oct.1, 5 p.m.), Dutch Light (Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m.), Four Shades of Brown (Oct. 3, 3 p.m.), Journeyings and Conversations (Oct. 3, 10:30 a.m.), Machuca (Sept. 30, 7 p.m.), ScaredSacred (Oct. 5, 10 a.m.), Stella Street (Oct. 2, 11 a.m.), Travellers and Magicians (Oct. 6, 7 p.m.), What Remains of Us (Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m.), Wilby Wonderful (Oct. 4, 6:20 p.m.), and The World According to Bush (Oct. 4 & 6 & 7 @ 7 p.m. … an extra screening has been added earlier on the 7th; see below).
- For those taking in a screening of Heddy Honigmann’s otherwise well-reviewed film, the word is give her latest, Dame la Mano, a miss … “the cinematographer filmed crap, there’s hardly a scene in the entire film that’s in focus … you can’t see the damn thing” is the word on the street.
Schedule Changes and other info …
As of this morning, the VIFF Programme Updates include two additional screenings for both Machuca and The World According to Bush (certainly among the most lauded films at this year’s Festival), as well as additional screenings for 11 other films (including Or (My Treasure) and Four Shades of Brown) which have received good notices. Too bad, though, that many of the additional screenings will be held in the Granville 7’s Theatre 6, the least amenable screen in the cinema complex.
