The Journals of Knud Rasmussen For starters, the title is a bit of a misnomer. One could be forgiven for thinking of it as some kind of biopic of the storied Danish explorer and his Greenland and Northwest Passage adventures. In fact, the film drops the audience into the Inuit culture of the early 20th […]
Carsten Knox
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not so fast, director-boy
1:27 AM, yawning, rubbing my eyes. Yes, that is the world’s smallest violin, playing just for me. The festival portion of my day began a little over 12 hours back, with After The Wedding, a Danish/Swedish co-production that will be the festival closing gala film tomorrow night. It’s well worth seeing, for those who haven’t […]
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The Spice (and All That)
Viewfinders is the film festival for youth. It’s put on by the Atlantic Film Festival organization in the spring, as well as being one of the programs during the main festival. The big screening is happening Saturday, something called The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang, but I decided to go and see We Shall Overcome, a Danish […]
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AFF-luent
It happens overnight. Halifax goes from being a town where Canadian and foreign language films are an endangered cinematic species to a place where a comedy set in a Newfoundland outport called Young Triffie’s Been Made Away With, and Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar’s Volver, both shown at the Atlantic Film Festival, sell out their screenings. […]
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Fall arts preview: October 2006
Written by Sue Carter Flinn, Johnston Farrow, Sean Flinn, Carsten Knox, Lis van Berkel. Halifax Pop Explosion The fall in Halifax is synonymous with busting out scarves, wearing long sleeves and experiencing exciting concerts. The biggest annual alternative music festival in Halifax returns with another amazing line-up of rock, hip-hop, folk and experimental acts, set […]
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Music & Space
I’m showing my geek credentials here, but every day as I ride past the apparatus on the edge of the Common that on Saturday will support all those rockin’ sexagenarians, I think it looks like that bizarre construction from Contact. You know, the one that transported Jodie Foster all the way across the galaxy. This […]
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Long Range
Manufactured Landscapes left me feeling very strange. The doc, directed by Jennifer Baichwal, arrives from The Toronto International Film Festival with an award for best Canadian feature. What Baichwal does is attempt to replicate what photographer Edward Burtynsky does with his photographs, but with moving images. Ostensibly she’s following him around as he visits China […]
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Buzzkill?
Here’s a quandary. I saw one of the films I’m not supposed to review, and once again, had a strong emotional reaction. Now, I know the embargo is really in place because the distributors don’t want any bad buzz to kill its chance of making some money during the commercial release, but they don’t mind […]
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Ms. Polley
People are already calling to ask how the interview went. I’ll get to it, don’t worry. Let me go back a little: My day clambered to life on the air at CKDU. Thanks to Hillary for guesting again—we navigated the review embargo while still trying to blab about the movies at the festival. I’ve heard […]
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Shoot Day
Well, I guess I can call myself a filmmaker now. Should get my passport updated? The Super-8 experience went pretty well, largely due to my great actors, Anthony Black, Ann-Marie Kerr and Jerry West. Listen to me, it sounds like I’m prepping my Oscar speech. It was a lot of fun, a real collaborative experience, […]
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Eve of the Reel
The program is called Attack of the 50ft Reels. I was press ganged by AFCOOP’s Walter Forsyth (well, to tell the truth, I went pretty willingly) into this, and now it’s Friday night, I’m desperately trying to come up with a compelling script. A couple of talented actor friends of mine have agreed to be […]
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Party, Party, Party
A Bug and A Bag of Weed is a movie I was really looking forward to, having met and interviewed two of the producers and stars, Chris Cuthbertson and Drew Hagen. It is also on my reviewer gag list (see earlier entry) so I won’t say too much, but that Hagen and Cuthbertson’s enthusiasm for […]
