Edmonton Film Society Winter Series
Cast in crowns
Brian Gibson / 01 Feb 2012
Before the tabloids and entertainment-networks scrounged for dirt behind the dazzle and glamour, Tinseltown's stars were the new royalty. Read more »
Belle de Jour
Subversive!
Josef Braun / 01 Feb 2012
According to the film's co-scenarist, Jean-Claude Carrière, the great psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan was once asked to present a lecture on female masochism. Read more »
Fall films, and beyond
A final preview of 2012's cinematic schedule
Brian Gibson / 25 Jan 2012
Michael Haneke's Amour gazes at the relationship between an older couple and their daughter (Isabelle Huppert) after the mother suffers a stroke. Read more »
Prevue
Coming attractions 2012 - part 1
A preview of the coming year in film
Brian Gibson / 18 Jan 2012
Shadowed by dark nights of superhero franchises, blue-balled by smurfin' cartoon sequels, battleshipped by board-game adaptations, snow white-outed by fairy-tale flicks, jump street-jacketed by '80s remakes . Read more »
A Clockwork Orange
Josef Braun / 18 Jan 2012
Fri, Jan 20 (11:30 pm); Sun, Jan 22 (9:15 pm) Directed by Stanley Kubrick Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1971 As a teenager I suppose…. Read more »
2001: A Space Odyssey
Brian Gibson / 04 Jan 2012
It's a film Stanley Kubrick summarized simply: three monoliths are left by alien explorers (on earth, on the moon and orbiting Jupiter) to influence and alert them to man's evolution; the third ushers an astronaut into rebirth as a star-child heralding humanity's next epoch. Read more »
A year in reels
A pair of Vue's film critics offer their picks for the year's best films
Brian Gibson, Josef Braun / 04 Jan 2012
How do we make sense of the past? What paths does memory take en route to truth, trauma or transcendence? What patterns emerge? Many of my favourite films of 2011, listed below in no particular order (though the first is first for a reason), respond to this question by contrasting the unfathomably vast with the infinitesimal, deep history with willful amnesia, the beginning and end of everything with the harrowing loss of a single life. Read more »
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Wed, Dec 21 (9:15 pm) - Metro Cinema
Eden Munro / 14 Dec 2011
The first Die Hard is pretty close to a perfect Christmas film: there's a family struggling through hard times, a bunch of terrorists, an off-duty cop having a…. Read more »