Say what you will about last year's movie controversy between Brokeback Mountain and Crash, I'm just wondering why Deepa Mehta's Water didn't win the Oscar for best film. It's a gorgeous, exquisite, provocative piece of work. I'm in utter awe of the cinematography and deeply moved by the story. Tremendous ( Read more... )

Israelis ask Oscars to drop suicide bomb film

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After finishing the laundry that would not end, I headed over to the mall to pick up something for an early dinner. And while there, I found myself in HMV, which was having a cd/dvd sale of epicregular proportions. And there, on the far wall, I spied the i heart huckabees and Punch-Drunk Love on for 2/$30.

I have wanted Punch-Drunk Love on dvd ( Read more... )

Mathieu Kassovitz has a blog. Yes, it's in French. (His website is in English and French.) But he has a blog. It's fairly new; he's only been publishing entries since October, so I'm not so terribly behind. But he has a blog. Mathieu Kassovitz has a blog.

Most of you probably know Mathieu Kassovitz through the film, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie ( Read more... )

I am so disappointed. Normally, every Canada Day, Showcase airs 24 hours of Canadian film. It's a wonderful chance for those of us who don't get to go to TIFF every year to catch up on all the films we've missed. Cause, chances are, we've missed nearly every Canadian release ever ( Read more... )