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Obituary For Michael Walsh -
Guardian, The (1990) -
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) -
Raising Cain (1992) -
Aladdin (1992) - Igniting flames of cartoon inspiration
American Pop (1981) - Soundtracking immigrant experience
American Tail, An (1986) - And the streets are paved with cheese
Babar: The Movie (1989) - Good intentions just not good enough
Beauty and the Beast (1991) - More advertising art from a silver age
Belladonna (1973) - Satanic history inspires early anime
British Animation Invasion, The (1991) - Acknowledging an absolute mastery
Bugs Bunny Film Festival, The (1993) - Tooning into the best of Blanc
Cool World (1992) - Holli is adult animator's goodbye girl
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) - Not the McDuck that inspired Lucas
Dumbo (1941) - A product of its time; a timeless classic
Fantasia (1940) - Cartoon concert serves up classics
Fantastic Planet, The (La planete savage; 1973) - Surreal style for a sidereal story
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992) - Aussie-inspired eco-toon a treat
Festival of Claymation (1987) - Stop-motion animation’s big moment
Fire and Ice (1983) - Producing a one-of-a-kind cartoon
Fritz the Cat (1972) - Comix with a deranged Disney look
Great Mouse Detective, The (1986) - Mystery keeps critic on seat's edge
Heavy Metal (1981) - Heavy Metal falls short of promise
Heavy Traffic (1974) - Artist object of Establishment's ire
Land Before Time, The (1988) - Family values as old as the dinosaurs
Light Years (Gandahar; 1988) - Market tuning misses original's intent
Little Mermaid, The (1989) - Dane's pain lost under the sea
Lord of the Rings, The (1978) - Cartoon grab for the One Ring
National Film Board of Canada's Animation Festival, The (1991) - Our Canadian tax dollars at play
Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993) - Pumpkin King sings of Sandy Claws
Once Upon a Forest (1993) - Serving up environmental junk food
Plague Dogs, The (1982) - Animation shows capacity for tragedy
Pocahontas (1995) - Ravenous wolves, raging hormones
Puppetoon Movie, The (1987) - Imagining how the future might look
Rock-A-Doodle (1991) - Blending brashness with blarney
Second Animation Celebration, The (1989) - Anthology offers craft's best
Secret of the Sword, The (1985) - Artless animated ad for TV cartoons
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Celebrating the first princess's 50th
Sword in the Stone, The (1963) - Mouse factory version of Arthur's tale
Three Caballeros, The (1945) - Animation's own victory celebration
Tom and Jerry - The Movie (1993) - Lacklustre return to the big screen
Too Outrageous Animation (1994) - With something to offend everyone
Vip, mio fratello superuomo (Vip, My Brother Superman; 1968) - Advertising a target-rich environment
Watership Down (1978) - Charming journey to a promised land
Wizards (1977) - Sword and sorcery fellowship forged
Addams Family Values (1993) - Sappy sequel soaked in nostalgia
Addams Family, The (1991) - Addams Family adaptation underfunny
Adventures of Barry McKenzie, The (1972) - Making light of Antipodean aspiration
Avengers, The (2012) - A Major impression in A minor role
Batman (1989) - Burton probes comic's noir tomorrow
Batman Returns (1992) - Examining a madness born of anger
Comic Book Movies - Looking at movies inspired by comics
Darkman (1990) - Insulting the good name of comics
Dennis the Menace (1993) - Sadism, humiliation as entertainment
Dick Tracy (1990) - Success a tribute to mass marketing
Flash Gordon (1980) - Flash back to escapism's pure roots
Flesh Gordon (1974) - Spoofing the sex implied in the serials
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) - Hard to take cartoon society seriously
Howard the Duck (1986) - Existential humour missing in action
Legend of the Lone Ranger, The (1981) - Stolid star dooms ranger's return
Mask, The (1994) - Comic triumph has comic-book roots
Masters of the Universe (1987) - Making movies to move inventory
Popeye (1980) - Sailor man a singing superhero
Red Sonja (1985) - Fending off epic unwholesomeness
Rocketeer, The (1991) - Celebrating yesteryear's pulp heroics
Sheena (1984) - Three-step plan guaranteed failure
Super Mario Bros. (1993) - Great game bombs on the big screen
Supergirl (1984) - Girl of Steel more Disney than DC
Superman II (1980) - Lester's sequel less than stellar
Superman III (1983) - First love lost in comic mess
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) - Superhero series end disappoints
Superman, The Movie (1978) - Superman falls for wonder newswoman
Tales from the Crypt (1972) - Screen shocks from banned books
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) - Bo fleshes out role of Tarzan's mate
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - Quick-quipping reptiles fight crime
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze (1991) - Few treats here for the big kids
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Turtles Are Back . . . in Time (1993) - Delicious departure from the formula
1941 (1979) - Chaos has to be seen to be believed
Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The (1975) - Monarch's loyallest subjects serve her memory
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (1988) - Ingenious use of hot air and fantasy
Airheads (1994) - Rebellion to take seriously or for fun
Airplane (1980) - You ever been in a cockpit before?
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) - Anthology short on really big laughs
American Werewolf in London, An (1981) - Crossing the pond with fang in cheek
Amos & Andrew (1993) - Dated comedy with a timely message
Animal House (1978) - Canadian colours in humour's new hue
Annie Hall (1977) - Insight combined with comic invention
Any Which Way You Can (1980) - Bad career move for an ambitious ape
Arachnophobia (1990) - Web-spinners really nature’s heroes
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) - Second round is worse than the first
Avanti! (1972) - Billy Wilder's master course in comedy
Back to the Beach (1987) - Never too old for a seashore shindig
Back to the Future (1985) - Making it Stateside a Canadian tradition
Back To The Future Part II (1989) - History rewritten to add shocks to the awe
Back To The Future Part III (1990) - Reconnecting with our inner cowboy
Bad News Bears, The (1976) - Good news entertainment a laugh riot
Beetlejuice (1988) - Hellzapoppin' fun in the Hereafter
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) - Human condition comically chronicled
Big (1988) - Comic charm in unintended consequences
Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor-Kings, The (1976) - Lots of heart along with authentic soul
Blazing Saddles (1974) - An exercise in the comedy of excess
Bob Roberts (1992) - “Vote first. Ask questions later.”
Brazil (1985) - Creating a mind-haunting social satire
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) - Comedy fulfills contractual obligation
Bull Durham (1988) - Celebrating summer's sacred rites
Burbs, The (1989) - Dealing with the neighbours from hell
Cabaret (1972) - Deciding to whom the future belongs
Caveman (1981) - Alunda is cave-speak for love in bloom
Coming to America (1988) - A tedious tribute to Eddie’s ego
Coneheads (1993) - Coneheads subpar suburban satire
Continental Divide (1981) - Not the oddness we were expecting
Crazy People (1990) - A concept we don’t know much about
Dad (1989) - Hugs abound in reconciliation comedy
Dark Star (1974) - Anticipating those galaxies far away
Death Becomes Her (1992) - Turning some great actors into ’toons
Distinguished Gentleman, The (1992) - Washington a city of broken dreams
Doc Hollywood (1991) - Affirming Capra's cracker barrel values
Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, The (1976) - Less than the sum of its comic parts
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) - Close encounters of the satiric kind
Eversmile, New Jersey (1989) - Preaching the gospel of happy teeth
Exit to Eden (1994) - Saskatchewan says no to S&M comedy
Family Plot (1976) - Couples sharing an heir of danger
Fatal Beauty (1987) - Dirty Harriet brings wit to drug wars
Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) - This Fish is a gut-busting mid-Atlantic catch
Flintstones, The (1994) - Flintstones among the turkey slices
For Pete’s Sake (1974) - Manful mugging overshadows males
Front Page, The (1974) - Classic comedy remake loud, dull, unfunny
Front, The (1976) - . . . but the guts are malfunctioning
Ghostbusters (1984) - Getting involved with possessed people
Goonies, The (1985) - An amusement park ride on celluloid
Gremlins (1984) - Setting out a seasonal cinema buffet
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - Charting the chaos that is civilization
Groundhog Day (1993) - The day that everything didn't change
Gung Ho (1986) - Exploiting opportunities in hard times
Heart and Souls (1993) - Celebrating Twilight Zone mysticism
History of the World: Part I (1981) - Shlock with a side order of schtick
Hocus Pocus (1993) - Our film in focus is Hocus Pocus
Home Alone (1990) - Idiot's guide to injuring home intruders
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) - Big adventure crossing the backyard
Hot Shots! (1991) - His dream to “bomb stuff, kill people”
I.Q. (1994) - Cold War nostalgia a guilty pleasure
Ishtar (1987) - One cinematic synonym for disaster
Joe versus the Volcano (1990) - Heroically facing an eruption of reality
King Ralph (1991) - Finding fun in the rites of succession
L.A. Story (1991) - Five-day forecast includes wry wit
Linda Lovelace for President (1975) - Sophomoric take on celebrity politics
Love in Three Dimensions (1973) - Only the material lacks depth
Lucky Lady (1975) - Reality sacrificed for a happy ending
M.A.S.H. (1970) - Calculated insanity key to surviving war's madness
Mad Dog and Glory (1993) - Exploring stuff of downtown dreams
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) - Ethics are a matter of choosing sides
Mixed Company (1974) - Advocating for big-tent family values
Mixed Nuts (1994) - Holiday countdown begins with a bowlful
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983) - Pythons squeezing out stale spew
Muppet Movie, The (1979) - Kermit’s show business success story
Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, The (1991) - Too often it’s too true to be funny
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) - Lots of spots for screen’s good sports
Naked Gun, The (1988) - Clearing a colleague, saving a queen
New Life, A (1988) - Recycling ideas a decade out of date
Nine to Five (1980) - What a way to make a living
Nude Bomb, The (1980) - Naked advertising in The Nude Bomb
Overboard (1987) - Romance a result of eternal optimism
Personal Services (1987) - The point of being old is being dirty
Pick-up Artist, The (1987) - Scoring a matter of playing the odds
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) - When getting there is no fun at all
Princess Bride, The (1987) - When television was called books
Private Lessons (1981) - Rich kid majors in sex education
Protocol (1984) - Getting involved and getting informed
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) - Exploring the reel to real experience
Reuben, Reuben (1983) - Celebrating a rhymer’s wicked ways
Rhinestone (1984) - Shaped to performers’ personalities
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - Satirical shafts missing their marks
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Hamlet as viewed from stage left
Same Time, Next Year (1978) - Life less tango, more like a fandango
Savages (1972) - Astonished by a perfect sphere’s arrival
Sirens (1994) - Shedding an era’s inhibitions
Straight Talk (1992) - Connecting in a pre-digital world
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill (1995) - Wacky fantasy promotes core values
Teen Wolf (1985) - Hirsute, hormonal high school horrors
To Be or Not to Be (1983) - Saving the world to save the theatre
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) - Horror-comedy’s tricks no treat
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990) - Ghost’s story takes a comic turn
Turner & Hooch (1989) - Cop's best buddy his deputy dog
Two of a Kind (1983) - Bedevilled dose of double boredom
Undercover Blues (1993) - Spy spoof has post-feminst sensibility
Villain, The (1979) - Western action bears the Acme brand
Volunteers (1985) - Bridge-building comedy breaks new wind
Weekend at Bernie's (1989) - Corpse comedy digs up little laughter
Weird Science (1985) - Hurried tale of techno-teen dreaming
When Harry Met Sally . . . (1989) - Finding wonderful truths wildly funny
Where the Heart Is (1990) - King Lear through the looking-glass
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) - Hilarious, hideous murder on the menu
Widows' Peak (1994) - Peeking into Irish widows' world
Wild at Heart (1990) - Mother's love complicates young lust
World According to Garp, The (1982) - Wrestling with problems of adaptation
Young Frankenstein (1974) - Finding fun in Frankenstein’s castle
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Being Ukrainian [15/04/22] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Black History Month 2022 [15/02/22] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Brain-in-a-box report [09/16/15] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Father-daughter theme [01/31/16] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Generation of change [03/30/16] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Geoff Olson [08/21/14] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Golden wedding anniversary [12/28/18] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Ides of March [15/03/22] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Inside the Seed (2013 stage play) [10/09/13] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Invisible, The [01/05/22] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Marking milestones [16/01/22] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Marshall McLuhan and me [01/06/22] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Medical report [09/11/16] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Meta musings [04/03/15] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Midsummer Night's Dream (2013 stage play) [10/21/13] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
My Two Expos [06/01/16] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Nagasaki bombing 2014 anniversary [08/09/14] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Naming Hurricanes [02/27/15] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Naomi Klein lecture [10/22/14] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Nathan Cohen sets the rules [04/16/17] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
National Canadian Film Day [04/29/15] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
New film (Mr. Holmes) reviewed [07/17/15] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
New Hampshire 2016 [02/11/16] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
New Year 2017 “Not Dead Yet” playlist [01/02/17] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
New Year's 2020 [01/01/20] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
New Year’s Eve [31/12/21] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Newsstand global warming coverage [12/6/15] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Not just a fruit fly [07/11/14] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
One month old today [11/04/13] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Seventh anniversary [04/10/20] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
Silicon Screen [03/11/20] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Television's family ties [01/27/15] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Trans Mountain Pipeline protests [11/25/14] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
TV 2013 season finales [05/19/14] - My Blog; Your Guide to What's New
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Destroyer (1988) - Real talent stuck in a cinema cellar
Hero and the Terror (1988) - Taking the fun out of entertainment
Art of Heavy Metal, The (1981 book) - Author reveals Heavy Metal secrets
Behind the Oscar (1993 book) - Casting doubt on Oscar's honesty
But Not in Canada! (1976 book) - Canadians no better, but no worse
Comics: Three histories (1972; 1972; 1974 books) - Recording the moment of maturation
Deadly Tail, A (2016; book) - Movie mania at the Great Crossroads
Embattled Shadows (1978 book) - Approach suits the Canadian spirit
Hollywood's First Choices (1994 book) - “Revelations” lacking in enterprise
Hollywood’s Canada (1975 book) - Ottawa complicit in Hollywood’s fraud
John Badham on Directing - 2nd Ed (2020 book) - Not about to give up on art or craft
Opening Shots (1993 book) - Wanting it in the worst way
Players, The (1994 book) - Companion for videocassette viewers
Reel Vancouver: An Insider's Guide (1996 book) - Location spotting in Hollywood North
Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, The (1970 book) - Historic findings represent a road not taken
Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen, The (2017 book) - Such stuff as dreams are made on
Stop the Presses! (1976 book) - Big screen reporters are Barris's beat
W.C. Fields bookshelf (1969; 1971; 1972) - Four volumes recall a unique rye wit
1939 (50th anniversary feature; 1989) - Looking forward to the best memories
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993; doc) - A truth more appalling than fiction
Amerika (1983; doc.) - Developing a non-narrative cinema
April 1, 1977: Star Trek - Leaked memo reveals studio's options
April 1, 1990. Casting Call - Someday these remakes will come
Atomic Cafe, The (1982; doc) - Life's a blast in the era of the atom
Behold Hawaii (1983; doc) - Encountering the island’s “old ways”
Being Different (1981) - A world in which distortion is reality
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989; doc) - Film generates both anger and tears
Country Music Nitely (1978, doc) - Celebrating production partners' debut
Damned in the U.S.A. (1992; doc) - Documentary preaches to the converted
Deadly Currents (1991; doc) - Adding substance to headline rhetoric
Discoverers, The (1992; doc) - Expanding on an Expo moment
Divine Madness (1980; doc) - Preserving that 70s outrageousness
Dream Is Alive, The (1985; doc) - Astronaut endorses IMAX experience
Female Misbehavior (1992; doc) - Cinémathèque hosts girls’ porn party
Fires of Kuwait (1992; doc) - Celebrating a fearless few's courage
Flyers (1982; doc) - Recreating a classic crash landing
Games of the XXI Olympiad, Montreal 1976 (1977; doc) - Official record not at all informative
Genocide (1982; doc) - Nazi Holocaust horrors were real
George Stevens: A Flimmaker’s Journey (1984; doc) - Less analysis than an act of filial piety
God Rides a Harley (1988; doc) - Christian Riders carry message forth
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) - The chronicle of a long, bitter battle
Hearts and Minds (1974; doc) - What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Hearts of Darkness (1991; doc) - Abandoned project given new life
Heaven (1987; doc) - Facing the question of sex after death
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988; doc) - Results of delayed justice examined
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992; doc) - Result is outrage, not understanding
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - The truth shall make you queasy
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1973; doc) - Concert doc a monaural mediocrity
Last Buffalo, The (1990; doc) - Creating a work of big screen poetry
Last Waltz, The (1978; doc.) - Thanks for all the musical memories
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990; doc) - Film's structure strikes the wrong note
Man Who Saw Tomorrow, The (1981; doc) - Dire predictions of war and peace
Millhouse: A White Comedy (1991; doc.) - A tradition of pillorying the president
On Company Business (1980; doc) - Taking stock of U.S. covert operations
Our Hitler (Der Gral; 1977; Germany) - About the man guilty of everything
Outer Space Connection, The (1975; doc) - On the line with ancient astronauts
Powaqqatsi (1988) - Industrialization cast in villain’s role
Ring of Fire (1991; doc.) - Bigger is not necessarily better
Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution, A (1988; doc.) - Honest portrait of national turmoil
Secret Policeman's Other Ball, The (1982; doc) - Doing good works, but not good work
Sex, Drugs & Democracy (1994; doc) - Dutch uncle’s good advice to Canada
Skyward (1985; doc) - Unforced environmental messaging
That’s Entertainment! (1974; doc.) - Recalling a time when movies sang
This Is Cinerama (1952) - Putting the “big” in big-screen movies
Titanica (1992; doc) - Deep-sea dive reveals sea changes
War Room, The (1993; doc) - The selling of the presidential product
Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time!, The (1982; doc) - Together again for a reunion concert
What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970; doc) - Narrator’s voice has a built-in pant
Winnie and Nelson Mandela (1986; doc) - Speaking out against racialist policies
Wisecracks (1992; doc) - Standing up to the comic patriarchy
Witness to Apartheid (1986; doc) - System kills hope, breeds violence
Adam’s Rib (Rebro Adama; 1991; Russia) - Human comedy emphasizing the human
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Yume; 1990) - Summing up a legend’s life lessons
Andrei Rublev (1966; Russia) - No solution for the sorrows of Mother Russia
Big Parade, The (Da yue bing; 1986; China) - A step forward before a pulling back
Boxer Rebellion (Ba guo lian jun; 1975; China) - History viewed from the Chinese side
Carmen (1983; Spain) - Reimagining her in a flamenco style
Carmen (1984; France) - Just smoulders when it should sizzle
Colonel Chabert (1994; France) - Surviving after the long walk home
Colonel Redl (Oberst Redl; Germany, 1985) - Driven by his contradictory demons
Dear Inspector (Tendre Poulet; 1977; France) - Love can be a multi-tasking thing
Dim Sum - A Little Bit of Heart (Chinese; 1985) - Negotiating family’s formal obligations
Empress Dowager, The (Qīng Guó Qīng Chéng; 1975; China) - A new standard in Hong Kong cinema
Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji; 1993; China) - Beginning the great Asian drama
Flight of the Eagle (Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd;1982; Sweden) - Swedes compete for bragging rights
Fourth Man, The (De vierde man; 1983, Dutch) - Portrait of the artist as a disaster area
Garde à vue (Under Suspicion; 1981, France) - Pursuing a resolution by year’s end
Girl with the Red Hair, The (Het Meisje Met Het Rode Haar; 1981; Dutch) - Defending justice outside a classroom
Happy New Year (La Bonne Année; 1973; France) - Love not factored into his crime plan
Heroes Two (Fang Shi Yu yu Hong Xiguan; 1974; Hong Kong) - One for the kung-fu cognoscenti
Hidden Fortress, The (Kakushi toride no san-akunin; 1958; Japan) - Discovering the source of a new hope
I Am Curious Yellow (Jag ä nyfiken - en film i gult; 1967; Sweden) - Swedish activist challenges U.S. censorship
King Lear (Korol Lir; 1971; Russia) - The Screen's greatest Lear speaks Russian
Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi; 1972; France) - Art less interesting than the commerce
Last Tempest, The (Ying tai qi xue; 1976; China) - Distraction fatal to reformer’s cause
Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob, The (Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob, 1973; France) - Finding farce in the era's big issues
Magicians of the Silver Screen (Báječní muži s klikou; 1978; Czechoslovakia) - History with grace, charm, humour
Men From the Monastery (Shao Lin zi di; 1974; Hong Kong) - Letting loose an historic anger
Molière (France; 1978) - Ponderous tribute to a comic genius
My Sweet Little Village (Vesničko má středisková; 1985; Czechoslovakia) - Making the most of the mini-dramas
Nasty Girl, The (Das schreckliche Mädchen; 1990; Germany) - Finding humour in serious situations
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht; 1979; Germany) - Damsel is the ultimate stakeholder
Official Story, The (Los Desaparecidos; 1985; Argentina) - Truth put ahead of blissful ignorance
Rhapsody in August (Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî ; 1991; Japan) - Simple truths painfully illuminated
Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje; 1977, Dutch) - National service an ambiguous choice
Spirit of the Beehive, The (El espiritu de la colmena; 1973, Spain) - Living in the land of a monster-god
State of Siege (État de siège, 1972; France) - A.I.D. comes with an unexpected price
Tampopo (1985; Japan) - Satisfying a variety of life’s appetites
That Night in Varennes (La Nuit de Varennes; 1982; France) - Swiftly paced intellectual adventure
Threepenny Opera, The (Die Dreigroschenoper; 1963; Germany) - Effort at mass marketing misfires
Tilaï (The Law; Burkina Faso; 1990) - Exposing generational conflicts
Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo; 1981; Russia) - Literary lion finds steno's spunk a tonic
Wannsee Conference, The (Die Wannseekonferenz; 1984; Germany)) - Historical horror in a civilized setting
Wartime Romance (Voenno-polevoy roman; 1983; Russia) - Glimpsing another sort of fog of war
We the Living (Noi Viva, Addio Kira!; 1942; Italy) - Experiencing the world according to Rand
Woman Demon Human (Ren gui qing; 1987; China) - Feminism behind the mask of tradition
Z (1969; France) - Facing death bravely, living life courageously
Soundtracks: Napoléon (1927/1994) - An echo of Honegger’s Napoléon
Soundtracks: Heavy Metal — The Score (1981) - Bernstein is Heavy Metal's musical star
Soundtracks: Howard Shore (7 scores) - Notes on seven scores by Howard Shore
Soundtracks: Jerry Goldsmith (8 Scores) - Notes on 8 scores by Jerry Goldsmith
Soundtracks: John Williams (11 scores) - Notes on eleven scores by John Williams
Interview: Ames, Leon (performer; 1972) - UnearthIng intrigue after hours in B.C.
Interview: Anderson, Carl (performer) - His signature tune: I gotta be me
Interview: Bakshi, Ralph (director) - Gambling on a cartooning revolution
Interview: Bluth, Don (director) - Transcending the paint and panels
Interview: Bogdanovich, Peter (director) - Bypassing arguments about money
Interview: Brault, Michel (Director) - Government secrecy a threat to us all
Interview: Castle, William (director); Marceau, Marcel (performer) - Master of Shock directs mime genius
Interview: Chambers, Marilyn (performer; 1980) - Deep down, David's laughing a lot
Interview: Chambers, Marilyn (performer; 1983) - It's a matter of freedom of choice
Interview: Chase, Duane (performer) - Alpine acting bred a love of geology
Interview: Coppola, Francis Ford (director) - Filmmaker looks to next adventure
Interview: Crawford, Johnny (performer) - Transition to adult roles no easy task
Interview: Crawley, F.R. Budge (producer) - Planning for future of feature films
Interview: Crocker, Barry (performer) - Australians learn to hold their own
Interview: Cross, Ben (performer) - I'm taking it in my strides
Interview: Derek, John (director) - Beautiful porn a directorial challenge
Interview: Downey, Robert (director; 1967) - A satirical voice from the underground
Interview: Duke, Daryl (director; 1973) - Marketing maturity the way forward
Interview: Field, Sally (performer) - "They all said you'll never do it"
Interview: Francovich, Allan (director) - Holding the Company to account
Interview: Fruet, William (director; 1973) - “It’s hell of a way to start a business”
Interview: Hackman, Gene (Performer; 1989) - Saying something he can be proud of
Interview: Jarrott, Charles (director) - Giving Canadian movies a bit of class
Interview: Juliani, John (director) - Canadian film conventions challenged
Interview: Keane, Laurence (producer) - Genres meshed, couple created
Interview: Kemeny, John (producer; 1976) - Bethune an intense, complex subject
Interview: King, Allan (director) - Exposing cherished cinematic myths
Interview: Kurtz, Gary (producer) - No interest in being an administrator
Interview: Lee, Christopher (performer; 1975; 1980) - Quality script draws acting icon to B.C.
Interview: Lovelace, Linda (performer) - Looking forward without regret
Interview: Medak, Peter (Director) - Making sense of fantastical things
Interview: Mimieux, Yvette (performer) - Contributing to entertainment’s cause
Interview: Needham, Hal (director; 1979) - Falling into a career of fun and games
Interview: Newman, Sydney (producer) - NFB's Newman bears gifts to China
Interview: Pakula, Alan J. (director) - Tension threatened by tedium
Interview: Petrie, Daniel (director; 1978) - Anticipating venomous critical attacks
Interview: Pidgeon, Walter (performer) - Never a thought for retirement
Interview: Pleasence, Donald (performer; 1973) - Finding the fun in being the bad guy
Interview: Pleasence, Donald (performer; 1974) - Pleasence praises the beauty of B.C.
Interview: Porter, Bob (Flesh Gordon investor) - Sexy satire has surprising B.C. roots
Interview: Price, Vincent (performer; 1974) - Remaining faithful to his first love: art
Interview: Saba, Arn (comic artist) - Where I should have been all along
Interview: Sayles, John (director) - Downward mobility as screen subject
Interview: Shatner, William (performer) - High impact on a low budget
Interview: Stewart, Walter (author; 1976) - Modern journalists argue for the truth
Interview: Towers, Harry Alan (producer) - London-born producer a London buff
Interview: Wallace, Ratch (producer) - Believing in a better future for film
Lotomania (1980; doc) - Regressively taxing poor and elderly
Report: Nathaniel Branden (lecturer) - Ayn Rand inspired a capitalist Christ
Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Solving the mystery of Mulholland Dr.
Quiz: Afterlife adventures - Shooting on location in the hereafter
Quiz: Arthur Hiller, director - Directing the laughter and the tears
Quiz: Britannia Rules Screen Fantasy - Accenting a cinema's English roots
Quiz: Canada's Film Firsts - Our movies had to start somewhere
Quiz: Comic Strip to Screen - Back pages providing screen scenes
Quiz: Dionne Quintuplets - Canada home to the original fab five
Quiz: Fun with the Fuhrer - Cinema's villain for all seasons
Quiz: Gender Benders - Cross-dressing for acting honours
Quiz: He Shoots, He Scores - Stars taking their shots on goal
Quiz: James Bond at 18 - When there were but three
Quiz: Johnny Depp turns 53 - Telling tales of his Terminal City days
Quiz: Keanu Reeves turns 51 - Reality check reveals northern roots
Quiz: Lords and Lovers - Wearing crowns, wielding power
Quiz: Mount Royal Mummers - Spotting Tinseltown's Montrealers
Quiz: My Fellow Canadians - Great White North to White House
Quiz: Press Gang - How do you spell Star Reporters?
Quiz: Queen City Players - Spotting Tinseltown's Torontonians
Quiz: Sci-Fi Shakespeareans - TV sci-fi constant as its northern stars
Quiz: Search for Canuckula - Canada has a Dracul-action plan
Quiz: Star Captains - Viewed from the bridge
Quiz: Traveling through time - Movies taking trips through time
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) - All beautiful surfaces, no discernible depth
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Our future contained less odyssey, more oddity
2010 (1984) - Second Odyssey more down to earth
84 Charing Cross Road (1987) - Soft-focus nostalgia for lost amenities
Abdication, The (1974) - How to solve a problem like Kristina
Abyss, The (1989) - Cameron's first voyage to the bottom of the sea
Adventurers, The (1970) - Making a big, boring movie
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The (1984) - Going to Planet Ten, Real soon
Air America (1990) - Making war for fun and profit
Airport (1970) - Ushering in the era of disaster cinema
Airport 1975 (1974) - The stewardess is flying the plane!
Airport ’77 (1977) - A glimpse into entertainment’s future included
Alice in Wonderland (1976) - Wonderland visit left its mark on DeBell
Alien (1979) - Major nightmare machinery set in motion
Alien Nation (1988) - Cops serve and protect in Slagtown
Alien3 (1992) - Adult fantasy dares to be a downer
Aliens (1986) - True heroic spirit evident in Ripley's return
All That Jazz (1979) - Life affirmed in a great mortality tale
All the President's Men (1976) - All the President's Men is the five-star final
Altered States (1980) - Dr. Jekyll meets the Incredible Hulk
Always (1989) - Keeping love’s fires burning
Amadeus (1984) - Amadeus celebrates divine spark in us all
American Graffiti (1973) - . . . Because the Wolfman is everywhere . . .
And God Created Woman (1988) - Missing the potential in its plot
Android (1983) - Feeling like a new kind of human
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) - Bujold survives noise and unsubtlety
Apocalypse Now (1979) - Exposing the horror, confronting the truth
Assassination of Trotsky, The (1972) - Worlds away from the Winter Palace
Backdraft (1991) - Real role models found in fire halls
Bad Lieutenant (1992) - Giving in to corruption and despair
Basic Instinct (1992) - A deadly challenge to the old boys club
Batman Forever (1995) - Rearranging the heritage furnishings
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) - Corman film school's master class
Battlestar Galactica (1978) - Bonanza treks into the far beyond
Being There (1979) - Making light of messianic messages
Ben-Hur (2016) - Sanctimony with a veneer of spectacle
Best of Times, The (1986) - Arrested adolescent psycho-dramatics
Betsy, The (1978) - Classy take on the Robbins rubbish
Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (1981) - A long way from transcending genre limits
Big Fix, The (1978) - Sam Spade’s successor for the ’60s
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966) - American values menaced by aliens
Blacula (1972) - Impossible to ignore the black arts
Blade Runner (1982) - Future noir has slick commercial touch
Blaze (1989) - Poetic licence and historic liberties taken
Blood for Dracula (Andy Warhol’s Dracula; 1974) - Unwashed unimpressed by undead
Blue Max, The (1966) - Here’s to fighting for a lost cause
Blue Steel (1990) - Director dealing in seductive violence
Blue Thunder (1983) - Glimpses of today in an '80s action epic
Body Heat (1981) - Debuting director's solid first impression
Born Losers (1967) - Achieves much by daring more
Brimstone and Treacle (1982) - An angel of mercy with an unholy agenda
Brother from Another Planet, The (1984) - Challenging take on the tabula rasa
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) - Swanson stakes out her place in Slayer history
Caligula (1979) - Protesters prolong controversial film's run
Carrie (1976) - Blood bath for a Prom Queen
Casablanca (1941) - Making the best of black and white choices
Chaplin (1992) - Emphasizing all the reasons to just smile
Chariots of Fire (1981) - The virtue and folly of sport in simpler times
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) - Mariner's mistake sets off historical debate
Cinema Sewer 31 (2018; magazine) - Truth, liberty and the pursuit of high office
Citizen Kane (1941) - Unexpected legacy of Xanadu's lord
Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Combining coarseness and culture
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Hope instead of fear of first contact
Color Purple, The (1985) - Celebrating cinematic good works
Coma (1978) - Spare-parts drama a factory second
Comic Book Confidential (1988) - Chronicling comics and other outrages
Comics as an Art Form exhibition (1971) - Celebrating the socially distant art form
Comin’ At Ya! (1981) - Spaghetti western stereoscopified
Commitments, The (1991) - Not the black Irish, but Irish as Blacks
Congo (1995) - More fun than another dinosaur hunt
Conversation, The (1974) - Coppola puts surveillance under scrutiny
Convoy (1978) - CB song inspires interstate insurrection
Cool Breeze (1972) - As ever, diamonds are for stealing
Cotton Club, The (1984) - Gangland drama meets the musical
Countess Dracula (1971) - More an allegory than shock machine
Cowboy Way, The (1994) - Black hats, white hats, hat tricks
Crazies, The (1973) - When trust is not an option
Crimson Tide (1995) - Debating the issue beneath the waves
Cry Freedom (1987) - Martyr's tale a call to action
Damned, The (1969) - Indulging a fascination with fascism
Dances with Wolves (1990) - Reclaiming life among the Lakota
Daughters of the Dust (1991) - More found poetry than a narrative drama
Day of the Locust, The (1975) - Sour satire falls short of its target
Dead, The (1987) - Huston bows out with an elegant aside
Death on the Nile (1978) - Projecting palatable personal warmth
Deceivers, The (1988) - Penetrating resistance to company rule
Deep Throat Part II (1974) - Second time far from a charm
Delta Force (1986) - Identifying with the better murderer
Demon Seed (1977) - Love is more than a glitch in the code
Devil and Max Devlin, The (1981) - A directionless Disney tests its limits
Devil's Brigade, The (1968) - Hollywood remembers our history for us
Dial M for Murder (1954) - Hitchcock thrills in all three dimensions
Die Hard (1988) - Celebrate the day as if it's your last
Die Hard 2 (1990) - Ultraviolence with a moral compass
Dirty Little Billy (1972) - Ugly duckling becomes an ugly duck
Do the Right Thing (1989) - Getting past our irrational attitudes
Don't Look Now (1973) - Shrill shocker fails to fulfill prophecies
Dracula (1979) - Family feelings save Dracula director
Dracula Sucks (1978) - Vampire no match for censor’s stake
Dragonslayer (1981) - Warming to a new screen experience
Drop Zone (1994) - Proving that white women can jump
Drum (1976) - Persisting in the pursuit of vulgarianism
Dune (1984) - Director's vision distinctively baroque
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Marooned alien hides in plain sight
Earthquake (1974) - Bujold makes the earth move for Heston
Ed Wood (1994) - Mythologizing Hollywood hallucinations
Eiger Sanction, The (1975) - Unsteady response to real questions
Eight Men Out (1983) - Baseball’s mythic moment of shame
Empire of the Sun (1987) - Spielberg forces hope into Ballard's tale
Empire Strikes Back, The (1980) - Changing the game made Episode V the second
Evil Under the Sun (1982) - As sophisticated as a Cole Porter tune
Executive Action (1973) - Executive Action taken against JFK
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) - Ambitious sequel cues laugher, not screams
Exorcist, The (1973) - Scaring up the old time religion
F.I.S.T. (1978) - On the line with the world's workers
Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989) - Baker Boy has a Happy New Year's Eve
Falling Down (1993) - Rambo gets a serio-satirical remake
Fantastic Voyage (1966) - Cold war spin on inner-space opera
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - Meditating on middle-class deprivation
Femme Nikita, La (1990) - Fufilling a need to make things happen
Final Countdown, The (1980) - Final Countdown remembers Pearl Harbor
Final Option, The (a.k.a. Who Dares Wins; 1982) - SAS makes war on the peace lobby
First Nudie Musical, The (1976) - Film revolution, with some nudity required
Flash Theatre Presents (comic book, 1970) - Vancouver artists opt for independence
Flashpoint (1984) - Flashpoint in light of Winter Kills
Fog, The (1980) - Scream queen stars with Psycho mom
Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981) - Believe that good will come of doing good
Four Musketeers, The (1974) - Somber sequel's summation is slapdash
Fourth Protocol, The (1987) - Returning to some serious Russophobia
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) - Finding his doppelganger
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) - Strange ideas of entertainment
Fringe Dwellers, The (1986) - Being her own person, no matter what
FTA (1972) - Sharing the truths the troops already know
Fugitive, The (1993) - Man-on-the-run drama no mere rerun
Futureworld (1976) - Outraging our sense of the sensible
Gaily, Gaily (1969) - Newsman comes of age in Chicago
Galaxina (1980) - Overstated to the point of absurdity
Gandhi (1982) - Revolution brought about by example
Gardens of Stone (1987) - Testing essential human decency
Getting of Wisdom, The (1977) - Education as the key to “better things”
Ghost Dad (1990) - Dad’s demise hardly a laughing matter
Girl and the General, The (La ragazza e il generale; 1967) - Worthwhile debate reduced to clichés
Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984) - Day wasted in the mind of a pop star
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - Mamet questions the good in greed
Glenn Miller Story, The (1954) - The sound found and a myth made
Godfather, The (1972) - Celebrating the birth of a new Hollywood
Godfather: Part II, The (1974) - Making clear the meaning of it all
Godfather: Part III, The (1990) - Argues for leaving well enough alone
Godzilla (1985) - Tokyo survives yet another stomping
Goldengirl (1979) - Olympic competition as science project
Gone With the Wind (1939) - Old Southern myth lavishly lamented
Good Mother, The (1988) - Soap-operatic schlock from Spock
Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976) - First to the screen but least with the facts
Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey (1988) - Her weird, wonderful life celebrated
Gray Lady Down (1978) - Praise God and General Dynamics
Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, The (1972) - Dubious Western legends ride again
Great Train Robbery, The (1979) - Victorian adventure on the right track
Great Waldo Pepper, The (1975) - War’s aftermath a flight into forgetting
Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1976) - Easton gets shot seen around the world
Guyana - Cult of the Damned (1979) - Answers none of the questions raised
Hair (1979) - A musical past its time made timeless
Handmaid’s Tale, The (1990) - Cinematic dystopia a disappoinment
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Off-season Allen features moments of mirth
Havana (1990) - Ambiguous new American revolution
Hawaii (1966) - Setting out to change a people’s gods
Heavy Metal Share Offering (1980) - Heavy Metal financing based on share unit sales
Henry V (1989) - Restoring the blood and doubt to Will's work
Hercules (1983) - Moon maidens added to mythological mix
Hero (1992) - Something more than a four-letter word
Hindenburg, The (1975) - Era of the airship ends with a bang
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) - Fuhrerbunker birthday bash beginning of end
Hoffa (1992) - Struggling with labour’s place in history
Hook (1991) - New Neverland a politically correct theme park
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1939) - What one man can invent, another can discover
Household Saints (1993) - Man deals. God stacks the deck.
Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994) - Derivative, design-driven populism
Hunt for Red October, The (1990) - Russophobes live to fight another day
Husbands and Wives (1992) - Mock doc lacking in substance, style
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) - Director's debut recalls really big shew
Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS (1975) - Canadians finance landmark film shocker
Impromptu (1991) - Herstory is gloriously adult entertainment
Inchon (1981) - MacArthur returns as Korea's saviour
Insatiable (1980) - Crossing from Rabid to Insatiable
Inserts (1975) - Pioneers in the neoplastic arts
Interview: Berton, Pierre (author; 1975) - Communications shape who we are
Invaders from Mars (1986) - First contact nightmares revisited
Jaws (1975) - Scary fish tale is a great white blockbuster
Jazz Singer, The (1927); Don Juan (1926) - It sounds like deja vu all over again
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) - Greatest story holds up in rock retelling
JFK (1991) - Executive Action taken against JFK
Juggernaut (1974) - Survival epic sets a high standard
Jungle Fever (1991) - Curious about Caucasian women
Jurassic Park (1993) - Devolving back to the future of fantasy
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) - Individual and self-aware, if not likeable
Kafka (1991) - Living the nightmare that is reality
Khartoum (1966) - Serving up scenario with the scenery
King Kong (1933) - Uncensored ape shows savage side
King Kong (1976) - No magic in Manhattan monkeyshines
King Lear (1971) - Filmgoers ill-served by Brook's excerpts
Labyrinth (1986) - Oz among a Labyrinth of influences
Lady in Red, The (1979) - Hollywood ending still a possibility
Lady Jane (1986) - Pity the daughter of a really bad dad
Lady Macbeth (2016) - Grimm without the happily-ever-after ending
Lair of the White Worm, The (1988) - Doubling down on the entendres
Land that Time Forgot, The (1975) - Mariners put their Great War on hold
Last Boy Scout, The (1991) - Willis draws upon his inner Bogart
Last Emperor, The (1987) - Historical epic a cultural revelation
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) - Adaptation given period Hollywood look
Last Man on Earth, The (1964) - Last Man was my first review
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Understanding Empire's role in Arab insurrection
League of Their Own, A (1992) - Davis leads league in scenes stolen
Legend (1985) - Wit for Europe, violence for America
Legend of Nigger Charley, The (1972) - Exploiting American racial resentments
Leon: The Professional (1994) - Comics influenced tale of assassin's apprentice
Leonard Part 6 (1987) - Little fun to be found in spycraft satire
Lethal Weapon (1987) - Cop buddies generate thrills, laughter
Licence to Kill (1989) - Loyalty more important than obedience
Lifeforce (1985) - Close encounter includes naked shocks
Link (1986) - A special feeling for society’s outsiders
Lion of the Desert (1981) - Unsubtle epic offers teaching moment
Little Dorrit (1988) - Overlapping chronicles explore Dickensian truth
Little Night Music, A (1978) - Sondheim's joyous musical recalls bygone days
Live and Let Die (1973) - Placing the emphasis on action
Living Daylights, The (1987) - Be prepared for Bond as Boy Scout
Logan's Run (1976) - Introducing shopping mall sci-fi
Lonely Lady, The (1983) - Wanting it in the worst way
Longest Day, The (1962) - Today’s memories brought to you by the letter D
Looker (1981) - No such thing as an idea past its time
Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) - Spotlight on an orphan disease
Lost Boys, The (1987) - Comic shocks as Dracula meets Peter Pan
Love Field (1992) - Ruby meets flight from Love Field
Love You! (1979) - Director attempts to legitimate porn
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966) - Castaway comedy in the Disney style
Macbeth (1971) - Reinventing screen Shakespeare for the 1970s
Magic Christian, The (1969) - Making the most of an awful muddle
Man of La Mancha (1972) - A song of praise to real, robust beauty
Man of No Importance, A (1993) - Importance of the Wilde man within
Man Who Wasn't There, The (1983) - A Sensation, A Scene and A Smile
Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974) - Half wits finding fun in fouling up
Mandingo (1975) - The enduring fever dream of white privilege
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) - Reanimated with style and overstatement
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - A woman first, and then a monarch
Massacre in Rome (1973) - Making the argument for mass murder
Matewan (1987) - Remembering the way it was . . . and is
Matinee (1993) - B-picturing Missile Crisis Fright
Maverick (1994) - Revisiting a legend of the West
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) - Dune buggies the future of transport
Metropolis (1927/1984) - Restoration of a future seen from the past
Miami Blues (1990) - Fringe folk need a recipe for survival
Missouri Breaks, The (1976) - Grand old genre running out of gas
Mo’ Better Blues (1990) - Film’s style triumphs over substance
Mohammad, Messenger of God (aka The Message; 1976) - Epic attempts to bridge religious divide
Monkey Trouble (1994) - Neither too silly nor too scary for kids
Monsignor (1982) - Sinners subject of big, bold junk movie
Moonraker (1979) - Comic turn restores life to series
Morons from Outer Space (1985) - A good rule upon first contact: Don’t Panic
Mother's Boys (1994) - Even bad mothers have their day
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976) - Humanizing this misfit team a tough job
Mr. Holmes (2015) - Fine-tuned rage against dying of the light
Much Ado About Nothing (2012) - Come. Bid me do anything for thee.
Murder By Decree (1979) - Dr. Watson as a collaborator, not a foil
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - Nostalgia overblown to perfection
My Brilliant Career (1979) - Belonging to a world of art, literature, music
Napoléon (1927) - Legendary movie masterwork restored
Network (1976) - Seeing into broadcasting's future
Nevada Smith (1966) - Whitewashing prurience and brutality
Never Say Never Again (1983) - Return to Bondage a blow for independence
Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) - Second round offers Neverending tedium
Newsies (1992) - Musical memorializes bid for fair wages
Night of the Comet (1984) - Wit, style make for a memorable Apocalypse
Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, A (1986) - Second chapter lacking in shock value
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987) - Messy mix of supernatural & pseudo-science
Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A (1988) - Dream girl takes on eternal killer
Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, A (1989) - The Hallowe’en party’s at 13 Elm Street
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984) - A new twist on the teen-killer genre
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Orwell's future is now our past
Nobody's Fool (1995) - What counts is doing right by kids and dogs
Norma Rae (1979) - Moments of truth worth remembering
Notorious Bettie Page, The (2006) - Witness Borne to the Passion of the Pin Up Queen
Octopussy (1983) - Eschewing high tech for low cunning
Oklahoma Crude (1973) - Civic virtue hard to find in Oil City
Once Were Warriors (1994) - Drowning in metropolitan shallows
One from the Heart (1982) - Coming to terms with an inner music
Ordinary People (1980) - Going deep, rather than off the deep end
Out of Africa (1985) - Love blossoms in humanity's cradle
Outsiders, The (1983) - Giving it all the look of importance
Paper Moon (1973) - Director displays canny commercial sense
Paper, The (1994) - The Paper looks for heroes in all the wrong places
Paperhouse (1988) - Real world responsibilities confronted
Parasite (1982) - Preventing a post-holocaust plague
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) - Kids key to director’s tale of the Kid
Patti Rocks (1988) - Serving up a slice of cinematic true grit
Payday (1973) - Mythologizing American mobility
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) - Caught dreaming impossible dreams
Perfect (1985) - Exposing infotainment's buff underbelly
Perfect World, A (1993) - The American Way's deepest flaws examined
Peter’s Friends (1992) - The Big Chill with English accents
Physical Evidence (1989) - Challenge, change in low-tech drama
Pink Cadillac (1989) - Comic foils more scary than screwball
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) - Nostalgia for emotional polarization
Pirates of Penzance, The (1983) - The very model of a modern movie musical
Platoon (1987) - Generation messed up fighting wrong war
Player, The (1992) - Beneath all the tinsel lies the real tinsel
Poetic Justice (1993) - Realizing the black American dream
Point of No Return (1993) - Resurrection includes redemption
Poltergeist (1982) - Nightmares intrude on suburban dream
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (1977) - Profiling one dull and dreary fellow
Poseidon Adventure, The (1972) - Preaching the gospel of self-help
Prancer (1989) - Prancer makes glad childhood's heart
Predator (1987) - Your basic mano a monstro movie
Print the Legend - Newspapering in the movies
Private Function, A (1984) - Appetite for position, protein laid bare
Project X (1987) - Signing the beginning of understanding
Prospero's Books (1991) - Shakespeare: The Tempest Storm Version
Puberty Blues (1981) - Chafing against rebellious submission
Pulp Fiction (1994) - Fascinatingly vile, utterly irresistible creatures
Purple Taxi, The (Un Taxi Mauve; 1977) - International cast on an Irish vacation
Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, The (1981) - Air piracy tale played for fun and profit
Q & A (1990) - Between what’s legal and what’s right
Radioland Murders (1994) - Homage to radio 20 years in the making
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - A Whizzbang return to days of yesteryear
Rainbow, The (1989) - Exploring the limits of her individuality
Rapture, The (1991) - Fundamentalist's tale taken seriously
Reds (1981) - Revolution betrayed, revolutionaries mourned
Reefer Madness (1936) - Exposing true facts about devil’s weed
Return of the Jedi (1983) - Concluding with Episode VI, which arrived third
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) - Boomers look back on basic training
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) - Discovering natural love with Victorian values
Right Stuff, The (1975) - In the footsteps of Ham, the Mercury Seven
Ritz, The (1976) - Coming to terms with homophile humour
Rob Roy (1995) - Rogue MacGregor's tale a western in kilts
Robin and Marian (1976) - Love's final arrow takes flight over Sherwood
RoboCop (1987) - Murphy's law is enforcement's future
Rocky (1976) - Wringing as many tears as it does cheers
Rollerball (1975) - Its vision of tomorrow is all too true today
Rollercoaster (1977) - Homegrown terrorist does it for dollars
Romero (1989) - Preaching the gospel of social justice
Royal Flash (1975) - Mere tongue in cheek is not enough
Ruby (1992) - Ruby meets flight from Love Field
Rude Awakening (1989) - What a difference a generation makes
Rumble Fish (1983) - Looking for someplace to burn out
Russia House, The (1990) - Caught in an historic transitional moment
S.O.B. (1981) - Expose of show biz debauchery a little late
Salome’s Last Dance (1988) - Celebrating unlicensed licentiousness
Santa Claus (1985) - Santa Claus biography kid-friendly
Saturn 3 (1980) - No controlling a sex-charged robot
Savage Messiah (1972) - Public rebellion as a work of art
Scandal (1989) - British misbehaviour in the Hollywood style
Schindler's List (1993) - Humanity recovered in the face of tragedy
School Daze (1988) - Putting on a show with anger evident
Scrooged (1988) - Scaring the Dickens out of a Scrooge
Self/less (2015) - Rich add death dodging to tax avoidance
Shadow of China (1989) - I want to be the voice of Hong Kong
Shampoo (1975) - Making America fashionable again
She's Gotta Have It (1986) - Offered as the first black yuppie movie
Shining, The (1980) - Slumming artist's schlocker
Shoot the Moon (1982) - Bailing on their California dream
Short Circuit (1986) - Questioning life, death and ethical behaviour
Sid and Nancy (1986) - Peripheral visionary's view of punk
Siddhartha (1972) - Truth reduced to a philosophical fairy tale
Silent Running (1972) - Film foresees danger to future's forest
Single White Female (1992) - Trapped in a formula gothic tale
Slap Shot (1977) - Polite Canadian myths shattered
Slaughter (1972) - Body counting one way to stay awake
Smokey and the Bandit - Part 3 (1983) - Spectacular stunts in search of a story
Sneakers (1992) - Computer security as comic concept
Soldier’s Story, A (1984) - Testing our emotional growth and maturity
Son of Dracula (1974) - Between rock and the shock place
Sound of Music, The (1965) - Nuns, Nazis, kids bring life to the hills
Speed (1994) - Bus thriller Sandy's big breakthrough
Splash (1984) - Mythic maiden inspires movie magic
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) - Nimoy Directs us to a whale of a good time
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) - Seeking what lies on the other side
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) - A fine finale, though hardly the end
Star Trek: Generations (1994) - Fans make the trek into Sci Fi's future
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) - TV spin-off reunites final frontiersmen
Star Wars (1977) - Only afterwards did the first become the fourth
Stewardesses, The (1968/81) - Separating the facts from the artifact
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) - Boy’s best friend serves and protects
Street Smart (1987) - Newsman's methods, motives examined
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) - Confronting the beast in American culture
Stunt Man, The (1980) - Behind the curtain at the moment of creation
Super Fly (1972) - Living the urban black American Dream
Tai-Pan (1986) - Celebrating commercial opportunities
Talk Radio (1988) - Listening to a country in deep trouble
Tankerbomb (1978; doc) - Pipeline proposals threaten environment
Telefon (1977) - Bronson sent to put down the Telefon
Ten Commandments, The (1956) - DeMille's second go at Exodus his final act of excess
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - Terminator sequel seriously entertaining
Terminator, The (1984) - Mayhem master makes high-tech debut
Three Musketeers, The (1973) - Never a dull moment in Lester's film
Thunderheart (1992) - Investigating a third world in America
Time Bandits (1981) - Literate laughter, and not just for kids
To the Devil, a Daughter (1976) - Tepid take on an underground of evil
Together Brothers (1974) - Develops situations, not characters
Tommy (1975) - See me! Feel me! Touch me! Heal me!
Top Gun (1986) - Simple-minded nonsense from our sponsor
Total Recall (1990) - Looking ahead to the tech of today
Towering Inferno, The (1974) - Disaster shocks taken to new heights
Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983) - Visual assaults lack logic or wit
Tremors (1990) - Creature feature that's fast and funny
True Confessions (1981) - Resolving conflicts with brotherly love
Turk 182! (1985) - Breaking social contract has consequences
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) - Travels through Serling's dimension
Ulysses (1967) - Historically great, if not artistically so
Under Fire (1983) - Good guys, bad guys and cheap shrimp
Under the Volcano (1984) - Briton's binge falls short of high tragedy
Unforgiven (1992) - An American auteur's greatest hit
Unlawful Entry (1992) - To serve whom? To protect what?
Up 'n' Coming (1983) - How stars are made, not born
Uptown Saturday Night (1974) - An impressive package of comic talent
Vincent & Theo (1990) - Altman's Van Gogh portrait goes for the grit
W.C. Fields and Me (1976) - Love, but little sympathy for a devil
Walker (1987) - America's God-given rights questioned
WarGames (1983) - Hacking into old-school movie magic
Westworld (1973) - Interesting ideas given bland presentation
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) - A muse for crazy, committed times
While You Were Sleeping (1995) - A pleasure to see it play out
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) - Learning to embrace her own strength
White Palace (1990) - Hedging bets, indulging in misdirection
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - Animation's greatest stars celebrated
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) - Taking responsibility for the final decision
Windwalker (1980) - Respecting that which has been lost
Winter Kills (1979) - Flashpoint in light of Winter Kills
WSC-01: Preview feature (1971) - Global gathering celebrates the Bard
WSC-02: Opening report (1971) - Shakespeare a geopolitical necessity
WSC-03: Tuesday report (1971) - Criticism troubled by many meanings
WSC-04: Wednesday report (1971) - Bard builds a better dramatic model
WSC-05: Thursday report (1971) - Shakespeare from Freud’s perspective
WSC-06: Friday report (1971) - Behind the scenes is a student team
WSC-07: First Folio feature (1971) - Performance, preservation in the blood
WSC-08: Saturday report (1971) - Kozintsev a man from the other side
WSC-09: Closing report (1971) - Film preserves not text but metaphor
WSC-10: Summary feature (1971) - Toasting the vision of Rudie Habenicht
Xanadu (1980) - Mysterious misfire from a decent director
Yentl (1983) - Diva-director's debut a charming oddity
Young Guns II (1990) - Charisma not the same as having a plan
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - Pulp thrills in place of deductive skills
Young Winston (1972) - Modern touches at odds with epic approach
Zelly and Me (1988) - Surviving pre-teen separation anxiety
Zulu Dawn (1979) - Churchillian flag-waving out of fashion
Crusade that Cleaned Up Comics (1967) - No Hope for an historian’s interview
B.C. Feature Films 1 - Reeling Back to the Silent era
B.C. Feature Films 2 - Victoria's 'quota quickies' (1932-38)
B.C. Feature Films 3 - Outside Vancouver (1937-75)
B.C. Feature Films 4 - Vancouver: Beginnings (1932-69)
B.C. Feature Films 5 - Vancouver features (1970-71)
B.C. Feature Films 6 - Vancouver feature films (1972-75)
B.C. Feature Films 7 - Miscellaneous films & sources
B.C. Film Firsts - In B.C., our movie history starts here
Filmmaking Industry 1 - Introducing an Encyclopedia entry
Filmmaking Industry 2 - In Silent Forests (1897-1920)
Filmmaking Industry 3 - Victoria’s Quota Quickies (1933-1938)
Filmmaking Industry 4 - The Pre-Television era (1939-1952)
Filmmaking Industry 5 - From TV to the CFDC (1953-1967)
Filmmaking Industry 6 - From CFDC to BCFC (1968-1977)
Filmmaking Industry 7 - Welcome to Brollywood (1978-2000)
Filmmaking Industry 8 - Bibliography for all sources consulted
VanBook Feature Film Fest 01 - Honouring Vancouver's pioneers
VanBook Feature Film Fest 02 - Filmed in God's Country
VanBook Feature Film Fest 03 - The future is filmed here
VanBook Feature Film Fest 04 - Documenting reality
VanBook Feature Film Fest 05 - The young and the restless
VanBook Feature Film Fest 06 - Romance in the rain forest
VanBook Feature Film Fest 07 - Play it again, Vancouver
VanBook Feature Film Fest 08 - Vancouver actually playing Vancouver
VanBook Feature Film Fest 09 - Spawning sequels, and even series
VanBook Feature Film Fest 10 - Acting opposite big scene country
VanBook Feature Film Fest 11 - Honouring Vancouver's own auteur
VanBook Feature Film Fest 12 - Shooting high hopes on low budgets
VanBook Feature Film Fest 13 - Fears factored into filmic equation
VanBook Feature Film Fest 14 - Exploring mad, mad, mad worlds
VanBook Feature Film Fest 15 - Variations on the thin blue plotline
VanBook Feature Film Fest 16 - Sending in the clowns
VanBook Feature Film Fest 17 - Scene-stealers working for treats
VanBook Feature Film Fest 18 - Translating B.C.'s beauty to the world
VanBook Feature Film Fest 19 - Something for after-hours audiences
VanBook Feature Film Fest 20 - Taking the picture show on the road
VanBook Feature Film Fest INDEX - Navigating 70 years of B.C. film history
Accused, The (1988) - Message delivered with stunning force
American Boyfriends (1989) - Teens enjoy autumn's leavetaking
Another Smith for Paradise (1972) - Smitty does well by doing good
Another Stakeout (1993) - Second helping just a little different
Battle in Seattle (2007) - People aware that the WTO is bad
Bear Island (1979) - Adventure lacks leaven of humour
Best Day Ever: Aiden Kesler 1994-2011 (2011) - Teen rages against dying of the light
Better Than Chocolate (1999) - Soft centres, hard centres . . . I like all the chocolates in the box
Bird on a Wire (1990) - Multiple roles for versatile vancouver
Boy Who Could Fly, The (1986) - Fine fantasy explores magic of belief
Burning Season, The (1993) - Exploring feminism’s consequences
By Design (1982) - A non-formula domestic comedy
Cabin in the Woods, The (2012) - Horror homage a Whedon winner
Cadence (1990) - Status quo served by class warfare
Certain Fury (1985) - Young stars already past their prime
Chaindance (1991) - Finding a different way to do things
Changeling, The (1980) - An uneasy presence lurks within
Christina (1974) - Starring Vancouver as Big Town, U.S.A.
Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) - Evolution epic both serious and silly
Cold Front (1989) - Script a minute short of hard-boiled
Cousins (1989) - Transatlantic transition works a treat
Crooked Hearts (1991) - Because everybody's family is crazy
Dead Wrong (1983) - So Canadian to play cops for laughs
Deserters (1983) - Vietnam conflict's Vancouver front
Distant Thunder (1988) - Torn between fairness and popularity
Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995) - Best friends survive in the wilderness
First Season, The (1989) - Survival and adjustment on the bridge
Fly II, The (1989) - Little more than good-looking gore
Food of the Gods, The (1976) - Wells never given a sporting chance
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) - Water-logged maniac is back again
Grey Fox, The (1982) - Inspired by a new, different frontier
Grocer’s Wife, The (1991) - Fantasy offers art on training wheels
Groundstar Conspiracy, The (1972) - SFU ground zero for sci-fi in B.C.
Harry in Your Pocket (1973) - Personal relations shortchanged
High Stakes (1987) - Gross screenplay defeats comic intent
Hookers On Davie (1984; doc) - Documentary seen as activist cinema
Housekeeping (1987) - Sisters shown world of possibilities
Impolite (1993) - Impolite Chronicles A Death Foretold
Inbreaker, The (1974) - Script fails to answer basic questions
Journey Into Fear (1975) - Name cast no guarantee of success
Kitsilano Solar House (1980; doc) - Finding something new under the sun
Knight_Moves (1992) - King's Game played for psycho shocks
Legend of Kootenai Brown, The (1991) - Having fun with B.C. history
Life and Times of Chester-Angus Ramsgood, The (1970) - Aspirations exceed accomplishments
Look Who's Talking Now (1993) - Third Vancouver visit all bark, no bite
Look Who's Talking Too (1990) - Mr. Toilet Man a problem
Matinee (aka Midnight Matinee; 1989) - Characters developed, not body count
My American Cousin (1985) - Satisfying tale of summer survival
Needful Things (1993) - Castle Rock found on B.C. coast
Never Cry Wolf (1983) - Smith captures spirit of Mowat
Neverending Story, The (1984) - Inner logic lacking in fantasy epic
North of Pittsburgh (1992) - Seeking justice, or maybe just survival
Out of the Blue (CeBe,1980; No Looking Back, 1983) - Tale's raw realism reflects punk era
Prophecy (1979) - Monster mania trumps serious issues
Pure Luck (1991) - Laughter somehow lost in translation
Quarantine (1989) - Techno-punk parable a prophetic tale
Rainbow Boys, The (1973) - Star's performance as good as gold
Rocky IV (1985) - Cold warriors warmed over
Roxanne (1987) - Romantic comedy with a classic twist
Runaway (1984) - Future cops battle bad 'bots
Russian Roulette (1975) - Taking a shot at cold war stereotypes
Shanks (1974) - Collaboration is creatively confused
Shoot to Kill (1988) - Jurisdictional issues ignored
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) - Lots to like in an amiable sci-fi mess
Squamish Five, The (1988) - Bombs at the centre of direct action
Stakeout (1987) - Comic plot pays off in serious shocks
Star 80 (1983) - Every man’s fantasy a true-life tragedy
Stay Tuned (1992) - TV satire is like watching souls fry
Strange Brew: The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie (1983) - Sharing a brew with Bob, Doug and Will
Street Kids (1985; doc) - Making sense of life on the street
Stripper (1986; doc) - Recognition and respect for the world's best
Supreme Kid, The (1977) - A dark dream of desperation, despair
Thing, The (1982) - Close encounter of an unpleasant kind
This Boy's Life (1993) - Making the best of a bad bargain
Timecop (1994) - The future of law enforcement
Tokyo Cowboy (1994) - Comic vision a singular achievement
Ups and Downs (1983) - Approval no guarantee of authenticity
Vixen! (1968) - Busty blockbuster set in beautiful B.C.
We’re No Angels (1989) - Faithless remake fails to be funny
Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989) - Jokes that neither win, place nor show
Wolfpen Principle, The (1974) - Seeking freedom from an urban cage
Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1974; doc) - Posing questions, wrestling with answers
Adjuster, The (1991) - Psycho-drama targets social concerns
Agnes of God (1985) - Drama offers a clash of symbols
Alien Thunder (Le tonnerre rouge; aka Dan Candy's Law; 1974) - Redneck redcoat's tale turns tragic
Amateur, The (1981) - Taking the Company's business private
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The (1974) - Flatmates' pact results in fine film
Atlantic City (1980) - Never too late to make good
Back in Action (1993) - Specializing in familiar stock shocks
Bay Boy, The (1984) - Director's homecoming a family affair
Beautiful Dreamers (1990) - Art and science find common cause
Beavers (1988; doc) - Celebrating nature’s own dam builder
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) - Awkward telling of the passionate tale
Between Friends (1973) - Shebib follows the wrong story
Bingo (1974) - Vision includes street-level humanity
Black Christmas (1974) - Sorority house stalking shocker
Black Robe (1991) - The 1630s seen in 1950s shades of grey
Blindside (1987) - Serious stuff struggling to get out
Brood, The (1979) - Probes modern medical malfeasance
Brother of the Wind (1972) - Wolf ways downright primitive, savage
Buried on Sunday (1992) - Island decides to take its fish and go
Calendar (1993) - Language only part of the problem
Cannibal Girls (1973) - Offering something new on the menu
Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) - Car 54, Where Are You? Good lord, it's Toronto!
Carry On Sergeant! (1928) - Exploiting Canada's service tradition
Child Under a Leaf (1974) - Child bearing seen as a malicious act
China Mission (1980; doc) - Film a disservice to a great Canadian
Christmas Story, A (1983) - One film that really is a classic
Class of '44 (1973) - Shallow sequel gets a failing grade
Clearcut (Terre Rouge; 1991) - Spirit of the land taking its revenge
Concrete Angels (1987) - Rockin’ out on Toronto’s mean streets
Cordélia (1980) - Period piece made timeless drama
Crazy Moon (1987) - Examining some early indiscretions
Dance Me Outside (1994) - Not just growing up, but growing wise
Dead Zone, The (1983) - Second sight shows future shocks
Death Hunt (1981) - Falsifying history for fun and profit
Death Ship (1980) - Ship's cargo a load of Nazi nonsense
Death Weekend (The House by the Lake; 1976) - Her choice is submission or survival
Decline of the American Empire, The (Le déclin de l'empire américain; 1986) - Ciné excellence has a Québec accent
Diplomatic Immunity (1991) - Making the choice not to walk away
Dog Who Stopped the War, The (La guerre des tuques; 1984) - Snow queen commands ice palace
Dolores Claiborne (1995) - Essentially it’s a homicidal chick flick
East End Hustle (1976) - Director wants to be taken seriously
Falling Over Backward (1990) - Sentimental journey with a hard edge
Fox, The (1967) - Relocating English lust to Canada
Freshman, The (1990) - Pitched to a screwball comedy crowd
George's Island (1989) - Guarding Kidd's George's Island gold
H (1990) - Intense tragedy of self-imprisonment
Hard Part Begins, The (1973) - With authentic mood and gritty reality
Heartaches (1981) - Shebib goes down the road again
High (aka In; 1967) - Sex more poignant than passionate
High-Ballin' (1978) - Rural raunch designed for drive-ins
I Love a Man in Uniform (aka A Man in Uniform; 1993) - Seduced by force's dark side
Imaginary Tale, An (Une histoire inventée; 1990) - Comic charm lost after a rape scene
In Praise of Older Women (1978) - In praise of Helen Shaver
Janis (1974; doc) - Truth told between the lines
Jésus de Montréal (1989) - Examining His message in today’s world
John and the Missus (1986) - Tribute paid to magnificent obsession
Joshua Then and Now (1985) - Finding a feature within a mini-series
Journey (1972) - Mind, emotions engaged in flex time
Kamouraska (1973) - Damned until death does them part
Keep It in the Family (1973) - Ham steak, overdone, thickly sliced
La Florida (1993) - Francophone family follows a dream
Latitude 55° (1982) - Caught in a blizzard of discovery
L’homme à tout faire (The Handyman; 1980) - Settling for the strawberry Kool-Aid
Les Ordres (1974) - Examining Canada's October Crisis
Lies My Father Told Me (1975) - An unmoving chronicle of childhood
Love and Human Remains (1993) - Penetrating parable probes our reality
Love at First Sight (1977) - Sight gags outlandish but restrained
Loyalties (1986) - Feminist parable a Canadian classic
Malarek (1988) - Turning a true story into pulp fiction
Maria Chapdelaine (1983) - A Québec classic comes to life
Marie-Anne (1978) - Rich history as Harlequin romance
Married Couple, A (1969; doc) - Creating an urban true-life adventure
Married to It (1991) - A celebration of marital commitment
Masala (1992) - Many influences stirred into the mix
Mâles, Les (The Men; 1971) - Feminism prevails in forest primeval
Meatballs (1979) - Kinder, gentler cousin of Animal House
Mindfield (1989) - Over-the-top take on shocking truths
Montreal Main (1974) - Exploring life as a dramatic happening
Moonstruck (1987) - A tale of Italian-American twitterpation
Mort d'un Bûcheron, La (The Death of a Lumberjack; 1973) - Ambition goes beyond the possible
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) - What have you learned, Dorothy?
Neptune Factor, The (1973) - Important questions are unanswered
North China Commune (1980; doc) - Documenting life in another land
Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981; doc) - Not a lot of honesty or nuance here
Nothing Personal (1980) - Things that don’t make it anymore
Of Unknown Origin (1983) - Maximum tension with minimum gore
One Magic Christmas (1985) - Angel represents Santa with claws
Palais Royale (1988) - Recalling Toronto the Less-than-Good
Paper Wedding (Les Noces de Papier; 1990) - Romantic rebellion in a refugee crisis
Paperback Hero (1973) - Song sets scene for misfit's tale
Partis pour la Gloire (1975) - Quebec resists call to King's war
Peanut Butter Solution, The (1985) - A talent for unconventional invention
Perfectly Normal (1990) - A self-consciously stylish urban satire
Pocahontas: The Legend (1995) - An alternative to the cartoon musical
Police Academy (1984) - Cop show just small screen silliness
Porky's (1982) - Rude humour a Canadian specialty
Porky's II: The Next Day (1983) - Defending Juliet's right to her Romeo
Quest for Fire (1981) - Humour leavens life lessons
Ragtime Summer (1977) - Conscience in conflict with reputation
Recommendation for Mercy (1975) - Court's decision called into question
Ref, The (1994) - Irish elf provides the profanity
Rejeanne Padovani (1973) - Peeling back the layers of civic decay
Roadkill (1989) - Falls short of spiritual transcendence
Rowdyman, The (1972) - Celebrating a life of whiskey, wenching
Running Brave (1983) - Bias is built into the casting process
Samuel Lount (1985) - Democracy's form shaped by sacrifice
Scandale (1982) - On Her Majesty’s sexual service
Scanners (1981) - Providing a mind-blowing experience
Second Wind (1976) - In pursuit of something more
Sex on Skis (Après-ski; 1971) - Who knows what's lost in translation?
Shadow Dancing (1988) - An unprepossessing possession
Shadow of the Wolf (1992) - Native magic lost in melodramatics
Shape of Things to Come, The (1979) - Cute robot hardly true to Wells
Silence of the North (1981) - Powerful roles for nature, landscape
Silver Streak (1976) - Pryor engineers a great train robbery
South of Wawa (1992) - Recalling Canada's love of losers
Speaking Parts (1989) - Sex and the scan-lined psyche
Special Day, A (Una giornata particolare; 1977) - Historic moment melds sex, politics
Starship Invasions (1977) - Earth’s population problem solved
Storm (1987) - Survival shocker stuck in first gear
Strangers in A Strange Land: The Adventures of a Film Crew in the Heart of China (1988; doc) - Selfless choice as the Canadian way
Surfacing (1981) - Film adaptation lacks directiion
Terry Fox Story, The (1983) - Film not up to its subject's stature
Threshold (1981) - Medical thriller provokes thought
Ticket to Heaven (1981) - Cult addiction a crisis of our times
Tribute (1980) - Heart and hope in human comedy
Two Amorous Women (Deux femmes en or; 1970) - Dubbing dampens film’s joie de vivre
Valérie (1969) - Cultural fallout from Quiet Revolution
Videodrome (1983) - Understanding Cathode Ray Mission
Visitor, The (1974) - Inflaming the winterland imagination
Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976; doc) - Expat author claimed for Canada
Vraie Nature de Bernadette, La (The True Nature of Bernadette; 1972) - Somewhere between saint and whore
Wars, The (1983) - Great War inspires not-so-great film
Wedding In White (1972) - Setting standards in style, sensitivity
White Dawn, The (1974) - Learning the meaning of civilization
White Light (1991) - Surviving a near-death experience
White Room (1990) - Back down a well-travelled path
Why Rock the Boat? (1974) - Canadian take on Capraesque comedy
Winter Tan, A (1987) - Intense, all-stops-out performance
Com-Ex, 1966's Hart House Comic Book Exposition - VanCAF celebrates once and future art
Expo86-01 - The cinematic sequel to Expo 67
Expo86-02 - Small world creates Expo's big shows
Expo86-03 - Small nation produces big innovation
Expo86-04 - One ring to entertain them all
Expo86-05 - Seeing the world in three dimensions
Expo86-06 - Showscan a look into film's future
Expo86-07 - It doesn't get any bigger than IMAX
Expo86-08 - Holovision a smoke & mirrors illusion
Expo86-09 - Video's scene-stealing supporting role
Expo86-10 - One day is worth thousands of photos
Expo86-11 - Simulating visits to faraway places
Expo86-12 - Many screens work to hold attention
Expo86-13 - Much to enjoy on screens off the site
Expo86-14 - Returned from Oz to help the world discover B.C.
Expo86-15 - Communication seriously considered
Expo86-16 - Introducing a 3D format that works
Expo86-17 - State's mission to create the future
Expo86-18 - Neighbours celebrate differences
Expo86-19 - Balanced view of tradition, innovation
Expo86-20 - Central Canada's content contrasted
Expo86-21 - Celebrating the Land of Living Skies
Expo86-22 - Slogan’s origins evoke special spell
Expo86-23 - Promoting a united European future
Expo86-24 - Cosmos becomes a European frontier
Expo86-25 - Nations still playing the train game
Expo86-26 - Involving audiences with star power
Expo86-27 - The Viking approach to exploration
Expo86-28 - An artful approach to Italy’s progress
Expo86-29 - Overcoming tradition’s boundaries
Expo86-30 - Films foreshadow departure to come
Expo86-31 - Memories that have lasted a lifetime
Expo86-32 - Surrounding us with natural beauty
Expo86-33 - Trains, planes once owned by us all
Expo86-34 - Examining Islam and Christianity
Expo86-35 - Introducing a Pacific Rim sensibility
Expo86-36 - Seeking stability in a changing world
Expo86-37 - Looking into global village’s future
Expo86-38 - Final thoughts on our Expo summer
Festival of Christianity and the Arts (1974) - Christianity focus of campus arts fest
Golden Harvest Theatre (1974) - Chinese film empires battle in B.C.
Hollywood Theatre (Vancouver; 1984) - Surviving as an independent
Mensa convention address (2002) - What really happened on 9/11, 2001
Park Theatre (Vancouver; 1990) - “Jesus house” ripe for resurrection
Plaza Theatre (Vancouver; 1993) - Promising to make art its specialty
Point Roberts Theatre (1971) - X-entertainment just over the border
Surf Theatre (Port Coquitlam; 1970) - Adapting program to changing times
Surf Theatre (Port Coquitlam; 1972) - First one in is first to be squeezed out
Tsongas/health care op-ed (1992) - Medicare debate an American tragedy
Vancouver East Cinema (1990) - Curtain falls on an urban institution
Vancouver's Pacific Press (1979) - 8-month-long strike shutters dailies
VCON 2 - Philip K. Dick (1972) - Weighing in on Wells versus Verne
VIFF Jury Duty (1992) - Summoned to serve; first selected
Xrystos voskres! (1971 feature) - The fine art of Ukrainian Easter Eggs
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Animated Features
Aladdin (1992) - Igniting flames of cartoon inspiration
American Pop (1981) - Soundtracking immigrant experience
American Tail, An (1986) - And the streets are paved with cheese
Babar: The Movie (1989) - Good intentions just not good enough
Beauty and the Beast (1991) - More advertising art from a silver age
Belladonna (1973) - Satanic history inspires early anime
British Animation Invasion, The (1991) - Acknowledging an absolute mastery
Bugs Bunny Film Festival, The (1993) - Tooning into the best of Blanc
Cool World (1992) - Holli is adult animator's goodbye girl
DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) - Not the McDuck that inspired Lucas
Dumbo (1941) - A product of its time; a timeless classic
Fantasia (1940) - Cartoon concert serves up classics
Fantastic Planet, The (La planete savage; 1973) - Surreal style for a sidereal story
Ferngully: The Last Rainforest (1992) - Aussie-inspired eco-toon a treat
Festival of Claymation (1987) - Stop-motion animation’s big moment
Fire and Ice (1983) - Producing a one-of-a-kind cartoon
Fritz the Cat (1972) - Comix with a deranged Disney look
Great Mouse Detective, The (1986) - Mystery keeps critic on seat's edge
Heavy Metal (1981) - Heavy Metal falls short of promise
Heavy Traffic (1974) - Artist object of Establishment's ire
Land Before Time, The (1988) - Family values as old as the dinosaurs
Light Years (Gandahar; 1988) - Market tuning misses original's intent
Little Mermaid, The (1989) - Dane's pain lost under the sea
Lord of the Rings, The (1978) - Cartoon grab for the One Ring
National Film Board of Canada's Animation Festival, The (1991) - Our Canadian tax dollars at play
Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993) - Pumpkin King sings of Sandy Claws
Once Upon a Forest (1993) - Serving up environmental junk food
Plague Dogs, The (1982) - Animation shows capacity for tragedy
Pocahontas (1995) - Ravenous wolves, raging hormones
Puppetoon Movie, The (1987) - Imagining how the future might look
Rock-A-Doodle (1991) - Blending brashness with blarney
Second Animation Celebration, The (1989) - Anthology offers craft's best
Secret of the Sword, The (1985) - Artless animated ad for TV cartoons
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) - Celebrating the first princess's 50th
Sword in the Stone, The (1963) - Mouse factory version of Arthur's tale
Three Caballeros, The (1945) - Animation's own victory celebration
Tom and Jerry - The Movie (1993) - Lacklustre return to the big screen
Too Outrageous Animation (1994) - With something to offend everyone
Vip, mio fratello superuomo (Vip, My Brother Superman; 1968) - Advertising a target-rich environment
Watership Down (1978) - Charming journey to a promised land
Wizards (1977) - Sword and sorcery fellowship forged
Based on Comics
Addams Family Values (1993) - Sappy sequel soaked in nostalgia
Addams Family, The (1991) - Addams Family adaptation underfunny
Adventures of Barry McKenzie, The (1972) - Making light of Antipodean aspiration
Avengers, The (2012) - A Major impression in A minor role
Batman (1989) - Burton probes comic's noir tomorrow
Batman Returns (1992) - Examining a madness born of anger
Comic Book Movies - Looking at movies inspired by comics
Darkman (1990) - Insulting the good name of comics
Dennis the Menace (1993) - Sadism, humiliation as entertainment
Dick Tracy (1990) - Success a tribute to mass marketing
Flash Gordon (1980) - Flash back to escapism's pure roots
Flesh Gordon (1974) - Spoofing the sex implied in the serials
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) - Hard to take cartoon society seriously
Howard the Duck (1986) - Existential humour missing in action
Legend of the Lone Ranger, The (1981) - Stolid star dooms ranger's return
Mask, The (1994) - Comic triumph has comic-book roots
Masters of the Universe (1987) - Making movies to move inventory
Popeye (1980) - Sailor man a singing superhero
Red Sonja (1985) - Fending off epic unwholesomeness
Rocketeer, The (1991) - Celebrating yesteryear's pulp heroics
Sheena (1984) - Three-step plan guaranteed failure
Super Mario Bros. (1993) - Great game bombs on the big screen
Supergirl (1984) - Girl of Steel more Disney than DC
Superman II (1980) - Lester's sequel less than stellar
Superman III (1983) - First love lost in comic mess
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) - Superhero series end disappoints
Superman, The Movie (1978) - Superman falls for wonder newswoman
Tales from the Crypt (1972) - Screen shocks from banned books
Tarzan the Ape Man (1981) - Bo fleshes out role of Tarzan's mate
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - Quick-quipping reptiles fight crime
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze (1991) - Few treats here for the big kids
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Turtles Are Back . . . in Time (1993) - Delicious departure from the formula
Live Action Comedy
1941 (1979) - Chaos has to be seen to be believed
Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, The (1975) - Monarch's loyallest subjects serve her memory
Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The (1988) - Ingenious use of hot air and fantasy
Airheads (1994) - Rebellion to take seriously or for fun
Airplane (1980) - You ever been in a cockpit before?
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) - Anthology short on really big laughs
American Werewolf in London, An (1981) - Crossing the pond with fang in cheek
Amos & Andrew (1993) - Dated comedy with a timely message
Animal House (1978) - Canadian colours in humour's new hue
Annie Hall (1977) - Insight combined with comic invention
Any Which Way You Can (1980) - Bad career move for an ambitious ape
Arachnophobia (1990) - Web-spinners really nature’s heroes
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988) - Second round is worse than the first
Avanti! (1972) - Billy Wilder's master course in comedy
Back to the Beach (1987) - Never too old for a seashore shindig
Back to the Future (1985) - Making it Stateside a Canadian tradition
Back To The Future Part II (1989) - History rewritten to add shocks to the awe
Back To The Future Part III (1990) - Reconnecting with our inner cowboy
Bad News Bears, The (1976) - Good news entertainment a laugh riot
Beetlejuice (1988) - Hellzapoppin' fun in the Hereafter
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979) - Human condition comically chronicled
Big (1988) - Comic charm in unintended consequences
Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor-Kings, The (1976) - Lots of heart along with authentic soul
Blazing Saddles (1974) - An exercise in the comedy of excess
Bob Roberts (1992) - “Vote first. Ask questions later.”
Brazil (1985) - Creating a mind-haunting social satire
Broadway Danny Rose (1984) - Comedy fulfills contractual obligation
Bull Durham (1988) - Celebrating summer's sacred rites
Burbs, The (1989) - Dealing with the neighbours from hell
Cabaret (1972) - Deciding to whom the future belongs
Caveman (1981) - Alunda is cave-speak for love in bloom
Coming to America (1988) - A tedious tribute to Eddie’s ego
Coneheads (1993) - Coneheads subpar suburban satire
Continental Divide (1981) - Not the oddness we were expecting
Crazy People (1990) - A concept we don’t know much about
Dad (1989) - Hugs abound in reconciliation comedy
Dark Star (1974) - Anticipating those galaxies far away
Death Becomes Her (1992) - Turning some great actors into ’toons
Distinguished Gentleman, The (1992) - Washington a city of broken dreams
Doc Hollywood (1991) - Affirming Capra's cracker barrel values
Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox, The (1976) - Less than the sum of its comic parts
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) - Close encounters of the satiric kind
Eversmile, New Jersey (1989) - Preaching the gospel of happy teeth
Exit to Eden (1994) - Saskatchewan says no to S&M comedy
Family Plot (1976) - Couples sharing an heir of danger
Fatal Beauty (1987) - Dirty Harriet brings wit to drug wars
Fish Called Wanda, A (1988) - This Fish is a gut-busting mid-Atlantic catch
Flintstones, The (1994) - Flintstones among the turkey slices
For Pete’s Sake (1974) - Manful mugging overshadows males
Front Page, The (1974) - Classic comedy remake loud, dull, unfunny
Front, The (1976) - . . . but the guts are malfunctioning
Ghostbusters (1984) - Getting involved with possessed people
Goonies, The (1985) - An amusement park ride on celluloid
Gremlins (1984) - Setting out a seasonal cinema buffet
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - Charting the chaos that is civilization
Groundhog Day (1993) - The day that everything didn't change
Gung Ho (1986) - Exploiting opportunities in hard times
Heart and Souls (1993) - Celebrating Twilight Zone mysticism
History of the World: Part I (1981) - Shlock with a side order of schtick
Hocus Pocus (1993) - Our film in focus is Hocus Pocus
Home Alone (1990) - Idiot's guide to injuring home intruders
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) - Big adventure crossing the backyard
Hot Shots! (1991) - His dream to “bomb stuff, kill people”
I.Q. (1994) - Cold War nostalgia a guilty pleasure
Ishtar (1987) - One cinematic synonym for disaster
Joe versus the Volcano (1990) - Heroically facing an eruption of reality
King Ralph (1991) - Finding fun in the rites of succession
L.A. Story (1991) - Five-day forecast includes wry wit
Linda Lovelace for President (1975) - Sophomoric take on celebrity politics
Love in Three Dimensions (1973) - Only the material lacks depth
Lucky Lady (1975) - Reality sacrificed for a happy ending
M.A.S.H. (1970) - Calculated insanity key to surviving war's madness
Mad Dog and Glory (1993) - Exploring stuff of downtown dreams
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) - Ethics are a matter of choosing sides
Mixed Company (1974) - Advocating for big-tent family values
Mixed Nuts (1994) - Holiday countdown begins with a bowlful
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983) - Pythons squeezing out stale spew
Muppet Movie, The (1979) - Kermit’s show business success story
Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, The (1991) - Too often it’s too true to be funny
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) - Lots of spots for screen’s good sports
Naked Gun, The (1988) - Clearing a colleague, saving a queen
New Life, A (1988) - Recycling ideas a decade out of date
Nine to Five (1980) - What a way to make a living
Nude Bomb, The (1980) - Naked advertising in The Nude Bomb
Overboard (1987) - Romance a result of eternal optimism
Personal Services (1987) - The point of being old is being dirty
Pick-up Artist, The (1987) - Scoring a matter of playing the odds
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) - When getting there is no fun at all
Princess Bride, The (1987) - When television was called books
Private Lessons (1981) - Rich kid majors in sex education
Protocol (1984) - Getting involved and getting informed
Purple Rose of Cairo, The (1985) - Exploring the reel to real experience
Reuben, Reuben (1983) - Celebrating a rhymer’s wicked ways
Rhinestone (1984) - Shaped to performers’ personalities
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) - Satirical shafts missing their marks
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) - Hamlet as viewed from stage left
Same Time, Next Year (1978) - Life less tango, more like a fandango
Savages (1972) - Astonished by a perfect sphere’s arrival
Sirens (1994) - Shedding an era’s inhibitions
Straight Talk (1992) - Connecting in a pre-digital world
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill (1995) - Wacky fantasy promotes core values
Teen Wolf (1985) - Hirsute, hormonal high school horrors
To Be or Not to Be (1983) - Saving the world to save the theatre
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) - Horror-comedy’s tricks no treat
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990) - Ghost’s story takes a comic turn
Turner & Hooch (1989) - Cop's best buddy his deputy dog
Two of a Kind (1983) - Bedevilled dose of double boredom
Undercover Blues (1993) - Spy spoof has post-feminst sensibility
Villain, The (1979) - Western action bears the Acme brand
Volunteers (1985) - Bridge-building comedy breaks new wind
Weekend at Bernie's (1989) - Corpse comedy digs up little laughter
Weird Science (1985) - Hurried tale of techno-teen dreaming
When Harry Met Sally . . . (1989) - Finding wonderful truths wildly funny
Where the Heart Is (1990) - King Lear through the looking-glass
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) - Hilarious, hideous murder on the menu
Widows' Peak (1994) - Peeking into Irish widows' world
Wild at Heart (1990) - Mother's love complicates young lust
World According to Garp, The (1982) - Wrestling with problems of adaptation
Young Frankenstein (1974) - Finding fun in Frankenstein’s castle
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Destroyer (1988) - Real talent stuck in a cinema cellar
Hero and the Terror (1988) - Taking the fun out of entertainment
Books
Art of Heavy Metal, The (1981 book) - Author reveals Heavy Metal secrets
Behind the Oscar (1993 book) - Casting doubt on Oscar's honesty
But Not in Canada! (1976 book) - Canadians no better, but no worse
Comics: Three histories (1972; 1972; 1974 books) - Recording the moment of maturation
Deadly Tail, A (2016; book) - Movie mania at the Great Crossroads
Embattled Shadows (1978 book) - Approach suits the Canadian spirit
Hollywood's First Choices (1994 book) - “Revelations” lacking in enterprise
Hollywood’s Canada (1975 book) - Ottawa complicit in Hollywood’s fraud
John Badham on Directing - 2nd Ed (2020 book) - Not about to give up on art or craft
Opening Shots (1993 book) - Wanting it in the worst way
Players, The (1994 book) - Companion for videocassette viewers
Reel Vancouver: An Insider's Guide (1996 book) - Location spotting in Hollywood North
Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, The (1970 book) - Historic findings represent a road not taken
Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen, The (2017 book) - Such stuff as dreams are made on
Stop the Presses! (1976 book) - Big screen reporters are Barris's beat
W.C. Fields bookshelf (1969; 1971; 1972) - Four volumes recall a unique rye wit
Documentary Films
1939 (50th anniversary feature; 1989) - Looking forward to the best memories
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993; doc) - A truth more appalling than fiction
Amerika (1983; doc.) - Developing a non-narrative cinema
April 1, 1977: Star Trek - Leaked memo reveals studio's options
April 1, 1990. Casting Call - Someday these remakes will come
Atomic Cafe, The (1982; doc) - Life's a blast in the era of the atom
Behold Hawaii (1983; doc) - Encountering the island’s “old ways”
Being Different (1981) - A world in which distortion is reality
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989; doc) - Film generates both anger and tears
Country Music Nitely (1978, doc) - Celebrating production partners' debut
Damned in the U.S.A. (1992; doc) - Documentary preaches to the converted
Deadly Currents (1991; doc) - Adding substance to headline rhetoric
Discoverers, The (1992; doc) - Expanding on an Expo moment
Divine Madness (1980; doc) - Preserving that 70s outrageousness
Dream Is Alive, The (1985; doc) - Astronaut endorses IMAX experience
Female Misbehavior (1992; doc) - Cinémathèque hosts girls’ porn party
Fires of Kuwait (1992; doc) - Celebrating a fearless few's courage
Flyers (1982; doc) - Recreating a classic crash landing
Games of the XXI Olympiad, Montreal 1976 (1977; doc) - Official record not at all informative
Genocide (1982; doc) - Nazi Holocaust horrors were real
George Stevens: A Flimmaker’s Journey (1984; doc) - Less analysis than an act of filial piety
God Rides a Harley (1988; doc) - Christian Riders carry message forth
Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) - The chronicle of a long, bitter battle
Hearts and Minds (1974; doc) - What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Hearts of Darkness (1991; doc) - Abandoned project given new life
Heaven (1987; doc) - Facing the question of sex after death
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988; doc) - Results of delayed justice examined
Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992; doc) - Result is outrage, not understanding
Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - The truth shall make you queasy
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones (1973; doc) - Concert doc a monaural mediocrity
Last Buffalo, The (1990; doc) - Creating a work of big screen poetry
Last Waltz, The (1978; doc.) - Thanks for all the musical memories
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990; doc) - Film's structure strikes the wrong note
Man Who Saw Tomorrow, The (1981; doc) - Dire predictions of war and peace
Millhouse: A White Comedy (1991; doc.) - A tradition of pillorying the president
On Company Business (1980; doc) - Taking stock of U.S. covert operations
Our Hitler (Der Gral; 1977; Germany) - About the man guilty of everything
Outer Space Connection, The (1975; doc) - On the line with ancient astronauts
Powaqqatsi (1988) - Industrialization cast in villain’s role
Ring of Fire (1991; doc.) - Bigger is not necessarily better
Rustling of Leaves: Inside the Philippine Revolution, A (1988; doc.) - Honest portrait of national turmoil
Secret Policeman's Other Ball, The (1982; doc) - Doing good works, but not good work
Sex, Drugs & Democracy (1994; doc) - Dutch uncle’s good advice to Canada
Skyward (1985; doc) - Unforced environmental messaging
That’s Entertainment! (1974; doc.) - Recalling a time when movies sang
This Is Cinerama (1952) - Putting the “big” in big-screen movies
Titanica (1992; doc) - Deep-sea dive reveals sea changes
War Room, The (1993; doc) - The selling of the presidential product
Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time!, The (1982; doc) - Together again for a reunion concert
What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (1970; doc) - Narrator’s voice has a built-in pant
Winnie and Nelson Mandela (1986; doc) - Speaking out against racialist policies
Wisecracks (1992; doc) - Standing up to the comic patriarchy
Witness to Apartheid (1986; doc) - System kills hope, breeds violence
Foreign-language Films
Adam’s Rib (Rebro Adama; 1991; Russia) - Human comedy emphasizing the human
Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (Yume; 1990) - Summing up a legend’s life lessons
Andrei Rublev (1966; Russia) - No solution for the sorrows of Mother Russia
Big Parade, The (Da yue bing; 1986; China) - A step forward before a pulling back
Boxer Rebellion (Ba guo lian jun; 1975; China) - History viewed from the Chinese side
Carmen (1983; Spain) - Reimagining her in a flamenco style
Carmen (1984; France) - Just smoulders when it should sizzle
Colonel Chabert (1994; France) - Surviving after the long walk home
Colonel Redl (Oberst Redl; Germany, 1985) - Driven by his contradictory demons
Dear Inspector (Tendre Poulet; 1977; France) - Love can be a multi-tasking thing
Dim Sum - A Little Bit of Heart (Chinese; 1985) - Negotiating family’s formal obligations
Empress Dowager, The (Qīng Guó Qīng Chéng; 1975; China) - A new standard in Hong Kong cinema
Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji; 1993; China) - Beginning the great Asian drama
Flight of the Eagle (Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd;1982; Sweden) - Swedes compete for bragging rights
Fourth Man, The (De vierde man; 1983, Dutch) - Portrait of the artist as a disaster area
Garde à vue (Under Suspicion; 1981, France) - Pursuing a resolution by year’s end
Girl with the Red Hair, The (Het Meisje Met Het Rode Haar; 1981; Dutch) - Defending justice outside a classroom
Happy New Year (La Bonne Année; 1973; France) - Love not factored into his crime plan
Heroes Two (Fang Shi Yu yu Hong Xiguan; 1974; Hong Kong) - One for the kung-fu cognoscenti
Hidden Fortress, The (Kakushi toride no san-akunin; 1958; Japan) - Discovering the source of a new hope
I Am Curious Yellow (Jag ä nyfiken - en film i gult; 1967; Sweden) - Swedish activist challenges U.S. censorship
King Lear (Korol Lir; 1971; Russia) - The Screen's greatest Lear speaks Russian
Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi; 1972; France) - Art less interesting than the commerce
Last Tempest, The (Ying tai qi xue; 1976; China) - Distraction fatal to reformer’s cause
Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob, The (Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob, 1973; France) - Finding farce in the era's big issues
Magicians of the Silver Screen (Báječní muži s klikou; 1978; Czechoslovakia) - History with grace, charm, humour
Men From the Monastery (Shao Lin zi di; 1974; Hong Kong) - Letting loose an historic anger
Molière (France; 1978) - Ponderous tribute to a comic genius
My Sweet Little Village (Vesničko má středisková; 1985; Czechoslovakia) - Making the most of the mini-dramas
Nasty Girl, The (Das schreckliche Mädchen; 1990; Germany) - Finding humour in serious situations
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht; 1979; Germany) - Damsel is the ultimate stakeholder
Official Story, The (Los Desaparecidos; 1985; Argentina) - Truth put ahead of blissful ignorance
Rhapsody in August (Hachi-gatsu no rapusodî ; 1991; Japan) - Simple truths painfully illuminated
Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje; 1977, Dutch) - National service an ambiguous choice
Spirit of the Beehive, The (El espiritu de la colmena; 1973, Spain) - Living in the land of a monster-god
State of Siege (État de siège, 1972; France) - A.I.D. comes with an unexpected price
Tampopo (1985; Japan) - Satisfying a variety of life’s appetites
That Night in Varennes (La Nuit de Varennes; 1982; France) - Swiftly paced intellectual adventure
Threepenny Opera, The (Die Dreigroschenoper; 1963; Germany) - Effort at mass marketing misfires
Tilaï (The Law; Burkina Faso; 1990) - Exposing generational conflicts
Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky (Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo; 1981; Russia) - Literary lion finds steno's spunk a tonic
Wannsee Conference, The (Die Wannseekonferenz; 1984; Germany)) - Historical horror in a civilized setting
Wartime Romance (Voenno-polevoy roman; 1983; Russia) - Glimpsing another sort of fog of war
We the Living (Noi Viva, Addio Kira!; 1942; Italy) - Experiencing the world according to Rand
Woman Demon Human (Ren gui qing; 1987; China) - Feminism behind the mask of tradition
Z (1969; France) - Facing death bravely, living life courageously
Music
Soundtracks: Napoléon (1927/1994) - An echo of Honegger’s Napoléon
Soundtracks: Heavy Metal — The Score (1981) - Bernstein is Heavy Metal's musical star
Soundtracks: Howard Shore (7 scores) - Notes on seven scores by Howard Shore
Soundtracks: Jerry Goldsmith (8 Scores) - Notes on 8 scores by Jerry Goldsmith
Soundtracks: John Williams (11 scores) - Notes on eleven scores by John Williams
People
Interview: Ames, Leon (performer; 1972) - UnearthIng intrigue after hours in B.C.
Interview: Anderson, Carl (performer) - His signature tune: I gotta be me
Interview: Bakshi, Ralph (director) - Gambling on a cartooning revolution
Interview: Bluth, Don (director) - Transcending the paint and panels
Interview: Bogdanovich, Peter (director) - Bypassing arguments about money
Interview: Brault, Michel (Director) - Government secrecy a threat to us all
Interview: Castle, William (director); Marceau, Marcel (performer) - Master of Shock directs mime genius
Interview: Chambers, Marilyn (performer; 1980) - Deep down, David's laughing a lot
Interview: Chambers, Marilyn (performer; 1983) - It's a matter of freedom of choice
Interview: Chase, Duane (performer) - Alpine acting bred a love of geology
Interview: Coppola, Francis Ford (director) - Filmmaker looks to next adventure
Interview: Crawford, Johnny (performer) - Transition to adult roles no easy task
Interview: Crawley, F.R. Budge (producer) - Planning for future of feature films
Interview: Crocker, Barry (performer) - Australians learn to hold their own
Interview: Cross, Ben (performer) - I'm taking it in my strides
Interview: Derek, John (director) - Beautiful porn a directorial challenge
Interview: Downey, Robert (director; 1967) - A satirical voice from the underground
Interview: Duke, Daryl (director; 1973) - Marketing maturity the way forward
Interview: Field, Sally (performer) - "They all said you'll never do it"
Interview: Francovich, Allan (director) - Holding the Company to account
Interview: Fruet, William (director; 1973) - “It’s hell of a way to start a business”
Interview: Hackman, Gene (Performer; 1989) - Saying something he can be proud of
Interview: Jarrott, Charles (director) - Giving Canadian movies a bit of class
Interview: Juliani, John (director) - Canadian film conventions challenged
Interview: Keane, Laurence (producer) - Genres meshed, couple created
Interview: Kemeny, John (producer; 1976) - Bethune an intense, complex subject
Interview: King, Allan (director) - Exposing cherished cinematic myths
Interview: Kurtz, Gary (producer) - No interest in being an administrator
Interview: Lee, Christopher (performer; 1975; 1980) - Quality script draws acting icon to B.C.
Interview: Lovelace, Linda (performer) - Looking forward without regret
Interview: Medak, Peter (Director) - Making sense of fantastical things
Interview: Mimieux, Yvette (performer) - Contributing to entertainment’s cause
Interview: Needham, Hal (director; 1979) - Falling into a career of fun and games
Interview: Newman, Sydney (producer) - NFB's Newman bears gifts to China
Interview: Pakula, Alan J. (director) - Tension threatened by tedium
Interview: Petrie, Daniel (director; 1978) - Anticipating venomous critical attacks
Interview: Pidgeon, Walter (performer) - Never a thought for retirement
Interview: Pleasence, Donald (performer; 1973) - Finding the fun in being the bad guy
Interview: Pleasence, Donald (performer; 1974) - Pleasence praises the beauty of B.C.
Interview: Porter, Bob (Flesh Gordon investor) - Sexy satire has surprising B.C. roots
Interview: Price, Vincent (performer; 1974) - Remaining faithful to his first love: art
Interview: Saba, Arn (comic artist) - Where I should have been all along
Interview: Sayles, John (director) - Downward mobility as screen subject
Interview: Shatner, William (performer) - High impact on a low budget
Interview: Stewart, Walter (author; 1976) - Modern journalists argue for the truth
Interview: Towers, Harry Alan (producer) - London-born producer a London buff
Interview: Wallace, Ratch (producer) - Believing in a better future for film
Lotomania (1980; doc) - Regressively taxing poor and elderly
Report: Nathaniel Branden (lecturer) - Ayn Rand inspired a capitalist Christ
Quiz
Mulholland Dr. (2001) - Solving the mystery of Mulholland Dr.
Quiz: Afterlife adventures - Shooting on location in the hereafter
Quiz: Arthur Hiller, director - Directing the laughter and the tears
Quiz: Britannia Rules Screen Fantasy - Accenting a cinema's English roots
Quiz: Canada's Film Firsts - Our movies had to start somewhere
Quiz: Comic Strip to Screen - Back pages providing screen scenes
Quiz: Dionne Quintuplets - Canada home to the original fab five
Quiz: Fun with the Fuhrer - Cinema's villain for all seasons
Quiz: Gender Benders - Cross-dressing for acting honours
Quiz: He Shoots, He Scores - Stars taking their shots on goal
Quiz: James Bond at 18 - When there were but three
Quiz: Johnny Depp turns 53 - Telling tales of his Terminal City days
Quiz: Keanu Reeves turns 51 - Reality check reveals northern roots
Quiz: Lords and Lovers - Wearing crowns, wielding power
Quiz: Mount Royal Mummers - Spotting Tinseltown's Montrealers
Quiz: My Fellow Canadians - Great White North to White House
Quiz: Press Gang - How do you spell Star Reporters?
Quiz: Queen City Players - Spotting Tinseltown's Torontonians
Quiz: Sci-Fi Shakespeareans - TV sci-fi constant as its northern stars
Quiz: Search for Canuckula - Canada has a Dracul-action plan
Quiz: Star Captains - Viewed from the bridge
Quiz: Traveling through time - Movies taking trips through time
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) - All beautiful surfaces, no discernible depth
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Our future contained less odyssey, more oddity
2010 (1984) - Second Odyssey more down to earth
84 Charing Cross Road (1987) - Soft-focus nostalgia for lost amenities
Abdication, The (1974) - How to solve a problem like Kristina
Abyss, The (1989) - Cameron's first voyage to the bottom of the sea
Adventurers, The (1970) - Making a big, boring movie
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, The (1984) - Going to Planet Ten, Real soon
Air America (1990) - Making war for fun and profit
Airport (1970) - Ushering in the era of disaster cinema
Airport 1975 (1974) - The stewardess is flying the plane!
Airport ’77 (1977) - A glimpse into entertainment’s future included
Alice in Wonderland (1976) - Wonderland visit left its mark on DeBell
Alien (1979) - Major nightmare machinery set in motion
Alien Nation (1988) - Cops serve and protect in Slagtown
Alien3 (1992) - Adult fantasy dares to be a downer
Aliens (1986) - True heroic spirit evident in Ripley's return
All That Jazz (1979) - Life affirmed in a great mortality tale
All the President's Men (1976) - All the President's Men is the five-star final
Altered States (1980) - Dr. Jekyll meets the Incredible Hulk
Always (1989) - Keeping love’s fires burning
Amadeus (1984) - Amadeus celebrates divine spark in us all
American Graffiti (1973) - . . . Because the Wolfman is everywhere . . .
And God Created Woman (1988) - Missing the potential in its plot
Android (1983) - Feeling like a new kind of human
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) - Bujold survives noise and unsubtlety
Apocalypse Now (1979) - Exposing the horror, confronting the truth
Assassination of Trotsky, The (1972) - Worlds away from the Winter Palace
Backdraft (1991) - Real role models found in fire halls
Bad Lieutenant (1992) - Giving in to corruption and despair
Basic Instinct (1992) - A deadly challenge to the old boys club
Batman Forever (1995) - Rearranging the heritage furnishings
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) - Corman film school's master class
Battlestar Galactica (1978) - Bonanza treks into the far beyond
Being There (1979) - Making light of messianic messages
Ben-Hur (2016) - Sanctimony with a veneer of spectacle
Best of Times, The (1986) - Arrested adolescent psycho-dramatics
Betsy, The (1978) - Classy take on the Robbins rubbish
Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (1981) - A long way from transcending genre limits
Big Fix, The (1978) - Sam Spade’s successor for the ’60s
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966) - American values menaced by aliens
Blacula (1972) - Impossible to ignore the black arts
Blade Runner (1982) - Future noir has slick commercial touch
Blaze (1989) - Poetic licence and historic liberties taken
Blood for Dracula (Andy Warhol’s Dracula; 1974) - Unwashed unimpressed by undead
Blue Max, The (1966) - Here’s to fighting for a lost cause
Blue Steel (1990) - Director dealing in seductive violence
Blue Thunder (1983) - Glimpses of today in an '80s action epic
Body Heat (1981) - Debuting director's solid first impression
Born Losers (1967) - Achieves much by daring more
Brimstone and Treacle (1982) - An angel of mercy with an unholy agenda
Brother from Another Planet, The (1984) - Challenging take on the tabula rasa
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) - Swanson stakes out her place in Slayer history
Caligula (1979) - Protesters prolong controversial film's run
Carrie (1976) - Blood bath for a Prom Queen
Casablanca (1941) - Making the best of black and white choices
Chaplin (1992) - Emphasizing all the reasons to just smile
Chariots of Fire (1981) - The virtue and folly of sport in simpler times
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) - Mariner's mistake sets off historical debate
Cinema Sewer 31 (2018; magazine) - Truth, liberty and the pursuit of high office
Citizen Kane (1941) - Unexpected legacy of Xanadu's lord
Clockwork Orange, A (1971) - Combining coarseness and culture
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Hope instead of fear of first contact
Color Purple, The (1985) - Celebrating cinematic good works
Coma (1978) - Spare-parts drama a factory second
Comic Book Confidential (1988) - Chronicling comics and other outrages
Comics as an Art Form exhibition (1971) - Celebrating the socially distant art form
Comin’ At Ya! (1981) - Spaghetti western stereoscopified
Commitments, The (1991) - Not the black Irish, but Irish as Blacks
Congo (1995) - More fun than another dinosaur hunt
Conversation, The (1974) - Coppola puts surveillance under scrutiny
Convoy (1978) - CB song inspires interstate insurrection
Cool Breeze (1972) - As ever, diamonds are for stealing
Cotton Club, The (1984) - Gangland drama meets the musical
Countess Dracula (1971) - More an allegory than shock machine
Cowboy Way, The (1994) - Black hats, white hats, hat tricks
Crazies, The (1973) - When trust is not an option
Crimson Tide (1995) - Debating the issue beneath the waves
Cry Freedom (1987) - Martyr's tale a call to action
Damned, The (1969) - Indulging a fascination with fascism
Dances with Wolves (1990) - Reclaiming life among the Lakota
Daughters of the Dust (1991) - More found poetry than a narrative drama
Day of the Locust, The (1975) - Sour satire falls short of its target
Dead, The (1987) - Huston bows out with an elegant aside
Death on the Nile (1978) - Projecting palatable personal warmth
Deceivers, The (1988) - Penetrating resistance to company rule
Deep Throat Part II (1974) - Second time far from a charm
Delta Force (1986) - Identifying with the better murderer
Demon Seed (1977) - Love is more than a glitch in the code
Devil and Max Devlin, The (1981) - A directionless Disney tests its limits
Devil's Brigade, The (1968) - Hollywood remembers our history for us
Dial M for Murder (1954) - Hitchcock thrills in all three dimensions
Die Hard (1988) - Celebrate the day as if it's your last
Die Hard 2 (1990) - Ultraviolence with a moral compass
Dirty Little Billy (1972) - Ugly duckling becomes an ugly duck
Do the Right Thing (1989) - Getting past our irrational attitudes
Don't Look Now (1973) - Shrill shocker fails to fulfill prophecies
Dracula (1979) - Family feelings save Dracula director
Dracula Sucks (1978) - Vampire no match for censor’s stake
Dragonslayer (1981) - Warming to a new screen experience
Drop Zone (1994) - Proving that white women can jump
Drum (1976) - Persisting in the pursuit of vulgarianism
Dune (1984) - Director's vision distinctively baroque
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) - Marooned alien hides in plain sight
Earthquake (1974) - Bujold makes the earth move for Heston
Ed Wood (1994) - Mythologizing Hollywood hallucinations
Eiger Sanction, The (1975) - Unsteady response to real questions
Eight Men Out (1983) - Baseball’s mythic moment of shame
Empire of the Sun (1987) - Spielberg forces hope into Ballard's tale
Empire Strikes Back, The (1980) - Changing the game made Episode V the second
Evil Under the Sun (1982) - As sophisticated as a Cole Porter tune
Executive Action (1973) - Executive Action taken against JFK
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) - Ambitious sequel cues laugher, not screams
Exorcist, The (1973) - Scaring up the old time religion
F.I.S.T. (1978) - On the line with the world's workers
Fabulous Baker Boys, The (1989) - Baker Boy has a Happy New Year's Eve
Falling Down (1993) - Rambo gets a serio-satirical remake
Fantastic Voyage (1966) - Cold war spin on inner-space opera
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) - Meditating on middle-class deprivation
Femme Nikita, La (1990) - Fufilling a need to make things happen
Final Countdown, The (1980) - Final Countdown remembers Pearl Harbor
Final Option, The (a.k.a. Who Dares Wins; 1982) - SAS makes war on the peace lobby
First Nudie Musical, The (1976) - Film revolution, with some nudity required
Flash Theatre Presents (comic book, 1970) - Vancouver artists opt for independence
Flashpoint (1984) - Flashpoint in light of Winter Kills
Fog, The (1980) - Scream queen stars with Psycho mom
Fort Apache, the Bronx (1981) - Believe that good will come of doing good
Four Musketeers, The (1974) - Somber sequel's summation is slapdash
Fourth Protocol, The (1987) - Returning to some serious Russophobia
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) - Finding his doppelganger
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) - Strange ideas of entertainment
Fringe Dwellers, The (1986) - Being her own person, no matter what
FTA (1972) - Sharing the truths the troops already know
Fugitive, The (1993) - Man-on-the-run drama no mere rerun
Futureworld (1976) - Outraging our sense of the sensible
Gaily, Gaily (1969) - Newsman comes of age in Chicago
Galaxina (1980) - Overstated to the point of absurdity
Gandhi (1982) - Revolution brought about by example
Gardens of Stone (1987) - Testing essential human decency
Getting of Wisdom, The (1977) - Education as the key to “better things”
Ghost Dad (1990) - Dad’s demise hardly a laughing matter
Girl and the General, The (La ragazza e il generale; 1967) - Worthwhile debate reduced to clichés
Give My Regards To Broad Street (1984) - Day wasted in the mind of a pop star
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - Mamet questions the good in greed
Glenn Miller Story, The (1954) - The sound found and a myth made
Godfather, The (1972) - Celebrating the birth of a new Hollywood
Godfather: Part II, The (1974) - Making clear the meaning of it all
Godfather: Part III, The (1990) - Argues for leaving well enough alone
Godzilla (1985) - Tokyo survives yet another stomping
Goldengirl (1979) - Olympic competition as science project
Gone With the Wind (1939) - Old Southern myth lavishly lamented
Good Mother, The (1988) - Soap-operatic schlock from Spock
Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976) - First to the screen but least with the facts
Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey (1988) - Her weird, wonderful life celebrated
Gray Lady Down (1978) - Praise God and General Dynamics
Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, The (1972) - Dubious Western legends ride again
Great Train Robbery, The (1979) - Victorian adventure on the right track
Great Waldo Pepper, The (1975) - War’s aftermath a flight into forgetting
Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1976) - Easton gets shot seen around the world
Guyana - Cult of the Damned (1979) - Answers none of the questions raised
Hair (1979) - A musical past its time made timeless
Handmaid’s Tale, The (1990) - Cinematic dystopia a disappoinment
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) - Off-season Allen features moments of mirth
Havana (1990) - Ambiguous new American revolution
Hawaii (1966) - Setting out to change a people’s gods
Heavy Metal Share Offering (1980) - Heavy Metal financing based on share unit sales
Henry V (1989) - Restoring the blood and doubt to Will's work
Hercules (1983) - Moon maidens added to mythological mix
Hero (1992) - Something more than a four-letter word
Hindenburg, The (1975) - Era of the airship ends with a bang
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) - Fuhrerbunker birthday bash beginning of end
Hoffa (1992) - Struggling with labour’s place in history
Hook (1991) - New Neverland a politically correct theme park
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1939) - What one man can invent, another can discover
Household Saints (1993) - Man deals. God stacks the deck.
Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994) - Derivative, design-driven populism
Hunt for Red October, The (1990) - Russophobes live to fight another day
Husbands and Wives (1992) - Mock doc lacking in substance, style
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) - Director's debut recalls really big shew
Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS (1975) - Canadians finance landmark film shocker
Impromptu (1991) - Herstory is gloriously adult entertainment
Inchon (1981) - MacArthur returns as Korea's saviour
Insatiable (1980) - Crossing from Rabid to Insatiable
Inserts (1975) - Pioneers in the neoplastic arts
Interview: Berton, Pierre (author; 1975) - Communications shape who we are
Invaders from Mars (1986) - First contact nightmares revisited
Jaws (1975) - Scary fish tale is a great white blockbuster
Jazz Singer, The (1927); Don Juan (1926) - It sounds like deja vu all over again
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) - Greatest story holds up in rock retelling
JFK (1991) - Executive Action taken against JFK
Juggernaut (1974) - Survival epic sets a high standard
Jungle Fever (1991) - Curious about Caucasian women
Jurassic Park (1993) - Devolving back to the future of fantasy
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992) - Individual and self-aware, if not likeable
Kafka (1991) - Living the nightmare that is reality
Khartoum (1966) - Serving up scenario with the scenery
King Kong (1933) - Uncensored ape shows savage side
King Kong (1976) - No magic in Manhattan monkeyshines
King Lear (1971) - Filmgoers ill-served by Brook's excerpts
Labyrinth (1986) - Oz among a Labyrinth of influences
Lady in Red, The (1979) - Hollywood ending still a possibility
Lady Jane (1986) - Pity the daughter of a really bad dad
Lady Macbeth (2016) - Grimm without the happily-ever-after ending
Lair of the White Worm, The (1988) - Doubling down on the entendres
Land that Time Forgot, The (1975) - Mariners put their Great War on hold
Last Boy Scout, The (1991) - Willis draws upon his inner Bogart
Last Emperor, The (1987) - Historical epic a cultural revelation
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) - Adaptation given period Hollywood look
Last Man on Earth, The (1964) - Last Man was my first review
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - Understanding Empire's role in Arab insurrection
League of Their Own, A (1992) - Davis leads league in scenes stolen
Legend (1985) - Wit for Europe, violence for America
Legend of Nigger Charley, The (1972) - Exploiting American racial resentments
Leon: The Professional (1994) - Comics influenced tale of assassin's apprentice
Leonard Part 6 (1987) - Little fun to be found in spycraft satire
Lethal Weapon (1987) - Cop buddies generate thrills, laughter
Licence to Kill (1989) - Loyalty more important than obedience
Lifeforce (1985) - Close encounter includes naked shocks
Link (1986) - A special feeling for society’s outsiders
Lion of the Desert (1981) - Unsubtle epic offers teaching moment
Little Dorrit (1988) - Overlapping chronicles explore Dickensian truth
Little Night Music, A (1978) - Sondheim's joyous musical recalls bygone days
Live and Let Die (1973) - Placing the emphasis on action
Living Daylights, The (1987) - Be prepared for Bond as Boy Scout
Logan's Run (1976) - Introducing shopping mall sci-fi
Lonely Lady, The (1983) - Wanting it in the worst way
Longest Day, The (1962) - Today’s memories brought to you by the letter D
Looker (1981) - No such thing as an idea past its time
Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) - Spotlight on an orphan disease
Lost Boys, The (1987) - Comic shocks as Dracula meets Peter Pan
Love Field (1992) - Ruby meets flight from Love Field
Love You! (1979) - Director attempts to legitimate porn
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966) - Castaway comedy in the Disney style
Macbeth (1971) - Reinventing screen Shakespeare for the 1970s
Magic Christian, The (1969) - Making the most of an awful muddle
Man of La Mancha (1972) - A song of praise to real, robust beauty
Man of No Importance, A (1993) - Importance of the Wilde man within
Man Who Wasn't There, The (1983) - A Sensation, A Scene and A Smile
Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974) - Half wits finding fun in fouling up
Mandingo (1975) - The enduring fever dream of white privilege
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) - Reanimated with style and overstatement
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) - A woman first, and then a monarch
Massacre in Rome (1973) - Making the argument for mass murder
Matewan (1987) - Remembering the way it was . . . and is
Matinee (1993) - B-picturing Missile Crisis Fright
Maverick (1994) - Revisiting a legend of the West
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) - Dune buggies the future of transport
Metropolis (1927/1984) - Restoration of a future seen from the past
Miami Blues (1990) - Fringe folk need a recipe for survival
Missouri Breaks, The (1976) - Grand old genre running out of gas
Mo’ Better Blues (1990) - Film’s style triumphs over substance
Mohammad, Messenger of God (aka The Message; 1976) - Epic attempts to bridge religious divide
Monkey Trouble (1994) - Neither too silly nor too scary for kids
Monsignor (1982) - Sinners subject of big, bold junk movie
Moonraker (1979) - Comic turn restores life to series
Morons from Outer Space (1985) - A good rule upon first contact: Don’t Panic
Mother's Boys (1994) - Even bad mothers have their day
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976) - Humanizing this misfit team a tough job
Mr. Holmes (2015) - Fine-tuned rage against dying of the light
Much Ado About Nothing (2012) - Come. Bid me do anything for thee.
Murder By Decree (1979) - Dr. Watson as a collaborator, not a foil
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - Nostalgia overblown to perfection
My Brilliant Career (1979) - Belonging to a world of art, literature, music
Napoléon (1927) - Legendary movie masterwork restored
Network (1976) - Seeing into broadcasting's future
Nevada Smith (1966) - Whitewashing prurience and brutality
Never Say Never Again (1983) - Return to Bondage a blow for independence
Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) - Second round offers Neverending tedium
Newsies (1992) - Musical memorializes bid for fair wages
Night of the Comet (1984) - Wit, style make for a memorable Apocalypse
Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, A (1986) - Second chapter lacking in shock value
Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, A (1987) - Messy mix of supernatural & pseudo-science
Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, A (1988) - Dream girl takes on eternal killer
Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, A (1989) - The Hallowe’en party’s at 13 Elm Street
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984) - A new twist on the teen-killer genre
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) - Orwell's future is now our past
Nobody's Fool (1995) - What counts is doing right by kids and dogs
Norma Rae (1979) - Moments of truth worth remembering
Notorious Bettie Page, The (2006) - Witness Borne to the Passion of the Pin Up Queen
Octopussy (1983) - Eschewing high tech for low cunning
Oklahoma Crude (1973) - Civic virtue hard to find in Oil City
Once Were Warriors (1994) - Drowning in metropolitan shallows
One from the Heart (1982) - Coming to terms with an inner music
Ordinary People (1980) - Going deep, rather than off the deep end
Out of Africa (1985) - Love blossoms in humanity's cradle
Outsiders, The (1983) - Giving it all the look of importance
Paper Moon (1973) - Director displays canny commercial sense
Paper, The (1994) - The Paper looks for heroes in all the wrong places
Paperhouse (1988) - Real world responsibilities confronted
Parasite (1982) - Preventing a post-holocaust plague
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) - Kids key to director’s tale of the Kid
Patti Rocks (1988) - Serving up a slice of cinematic true grit
Payday (1973) - Mythologizing American mobility
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) - Caught dreaming impossible dreams
Perfect (1985) - Exposing infotainment's buff underbelly
Perfect World, A (1993) - The American Way's deepest flaws examined
Peter’s Friends (1992) - The Big Chill with English accents
Physical Evidence (1989) - Challenge, change in low-tech drama
Pink Cadillac (1989) - Comic foils more scary than screwball
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982) - Nostalgia for emotional polarization
Pirates of Penzance, The (1983) - The very model of a modern movie musical
Platoon (1987) - Generation messed up fighting wrong war
Player, The (1992) - Beneath all the tinsel lies the real tinsel
Poetic Justice (1993) - Realizing the black American dream
Point of No Return (1993) - Resurrection includes redemption
Poltergeist (1982) - Nightmares intrude on suburban dream
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (1977) - Profiling one dull and dreary fellow
Poseidon Adventure, The (1972) - Preaching the gospel of self-help
Prancer (1989) - Prancer makes glad childhood's heart
Predator (1987) - Your basic mano a monstro movie
Print the Legend - Newspapering in the movies
Private Function, A (1984) - Appetite for position, protein laid bare
Project X (1987) - Signing the beginning of understanding
Prospero's Books (1991) - Shakespeare: The Tempest Storm Version
Puberty Blues (1981) - Chafing against rebellious submission
Pulp Fiction (1994) - Fascinatingly vile, utterly irresistible creatures
Purple Taxi, The (Un Taxi Mauve; 1977) - International cast on an Irish vacation
Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, The (1981) - Air piracy tale played for fun and profit
Q & A (1990) - Between what’s legal and what’s right
Radioland Murders (1994) - Homage to radio 20 years in the making
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - A Whizzbang return to days of yesteryear
Rainbow, The (1989) - Exploring the limits of her individuality
Rapture, The (1991) - Fundamentalist's tale taken seriously
Reds (1981) - Revolution betrayed, revolutionaries mourned
Reefer Madness (1936) - Exposing true facts about devil’s weed
Return of the Jedi (1983) - Concluding with Episode VI, which arrived third
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979) - Boomers look back on basic training
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991) - Discovering natural love with Victorian values
Right Stuff, The (1975) - In the footsteps of Ham, the Mercury Seven
Ritz, The (1976) - Coming to terms with homophile humour
Rob Roy (1995) - Rogue MacGregor's tale a western in kilts
Robin and Marian (1976) - Love's final arrow takes flight over Sherwood
RoboCop (1987) - Murphy's law is enforcement's future
Rocky (1976) - Wringing as many tears as it does cheers
Rollerball (1975) - Its vision of tomorrow is all too true today
Rollercoaster (1977) - Homegrown terrorist does it for dollars
Romero (1989) - Preaching the gospel of social justice
Royal Flash (1975) - Mere tongue in cheek is not enough
Ruby (1992) - Ruby meets flight from Love Field
Rude Awakening (1989) - What a difference a generation makes
Rumble Fish (1983) - Looking for someplace to burn out
Russia House, The (1990) - Caught in an historic transitional moment
S.O.B. (1981) - Expose of show biz debauchery a little late
Salome’s Last Dance (1988) - Celebrating unlicensed licentiousness
Santa Claus (1985) - Santa Claus biography kid-friendly
Saturn 3 (1980) - No controlling a sex-charged robot
Savage Messiah (1972) - Public rebellion as a work of art
Scandal (1989) - British misbehaviour in the Hollywood style
Schindler's List (1993) - Humanity recovered in the face of tragedy
School Daze (1988) - Putting on a show with anger evident
Scrooged (1988) - Scaring the Dickens out of a Scrooge
Self/less (2015) - Rich add death dodging to tax avoidance
Shadow of China (1989) - I want to be the voice of Hong Kong
Shampoo (1975) - Making America fashionable again
She's Gotta Have It (1986) - Offered as the first black yuppie movie
Shining, The (1980) - Slumming artist's schlocker
Shoot the Moon (1982) - Bailing on their California dream
Short Circuit (1986) - Questioning life, death and ethical behaviour
Sid and Nancy (1986) - Peripheral visionary's view of punk
Siddhartha (1972) - Truth reduced to a philosophical fairy tale
Silent Running (1972) - Film foresees danger to future's forest
Single White Female (1992) - Trapped in a formula gothic tale
Slap Shot (1977) - Polite Canadian myths shattered
Slaughter (1972) - Body counting one way to stay awake
Smokey and the Bandit - Part 3 (1983) - Spectacular stunts in search of a story
Sneakers (1992) - Computer security as comic concept
Soldier’s Story, A (1984) - Testing our emotional growth and maturity
Son of Dracula (1974) - Between rock and the shock place
Sound of Music, The (1965) - Nuns, Nazis, kids bring life to the hills
Speed (1994) - Bus thriller Sandy's big breakthrough
Splash (1984) - Mythic maiden inspires movie magic
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) - Nimoy Directs us to a whale of a good time
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) - Seeking what lies on the other side
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) - A fine finale, though hardly the end
Star Trek: Generations (1994) - Fans make the trek into Sci Fi's future
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) - TV spin-off reunites final frontiersmen
Star Wars (1977) - Only afterwards did the first become the fourth
Stewardesses, The (1968/81) - Separating the facts from the artifact
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) - Boy’s best friend serves and protects
Street Smart (1987) - Newsman's methods, motives examined
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951) - Confronting the beast in American culture
Stunt Man, The (1980) - Behind the curtain at the moment of creation
Super Fly (1972) - Living the urban black American Dream
Tai-Pan (1986) - Celebrating commercial opportunities
Talk Radio (1988) - Listening to a country in deep trouble
Tankerbomb (1978; doc) - Pipeline proposals threaten environment
Telefon (1977) - Bronson sent to put down the Telefon
Ten Commandments, The (1956) - DeMille's second go at Exodus his final act of excess
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - Terminator sequel seriously entertaining
Terminator, The (1984) - Mayhem master makes high-tech debut
Three Musketeers, The (1973) - Never a dull moment in Lester's film
Thunderheart (1992) - Investigating a third world in America
Time Bandits (1981) - Literate laughter, and not just for kids
To the Devil, a Daughter (1976) - Tepid take on an underground of evil
Together Brothers (1974) - Develops situations, not characters
Tommy (1975) - See me! Feel me! Touch me! Heal me!
Top Gun (1986) - Simple-minded nonsense from our sponsor
Total Recall (1990) - Looking ahead to the tech of today
Towering Inferno, The (1974) - Disaster shocks taken to new heights
Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983) - Visual assaults lack logic or wit
Tremors (1990) - Creature feature that's fast and funny
True Confessions (1981) - Resolving conflicts with brotherly love
Turk 182! (1985) - Breaking social contract has consequences
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) - Travels through Serling's dimension
Ulysses (1967) - Historically great, if not artistically so
Under Fire (1983) - Good guys, bad guys and cheap shrimp
Under the Volcano (1984) - Briton's binge falls short of high tragedy
Unforgiven (1992) - An American auteur's greatest hit
Unlawful Entry (1992) - To serve whom? To protect what?
Up 'n' Coming (1983) - How stars are made, not born
Uptown Saturday Night (1974) - An impressive package of comic talent
Vincent & Theo (1990) - Altman's Van Gogh portrait goes for the grit
W.C. Fields and Me (1976) - Love, but little sympathy for a devil
Walker (1987) - America's God-given rights questioned
WarGames (1983) - Hacking into old-school movie magic
Westworld (1973) - Interesting ideas given bland presentation
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980) - A muse for crazy, committed times
While You Were Sleeping (1995) - A pleasure to see it play out
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) - Learning to embrace her own strength
White Palace (1990) - Hedging bets, indulging in misdirection
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - Animation's greatest stars celebrated
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981) - Taking responsibility for the final decision
Windwalker (1980) - Respecting that which has been lost
Winter Kills (1979) - Flashpoint in light of Winter Kills
WSC-01: Preview feature (1971) - Global gathering celebrates the Bard
WSC-02: Opening report (1971) - Shakespeare a geopolitical necessity
WSC-03: Tuesday report (1971) - Criticism troubled by many meanings
WSC-04: Wednesday report (1971) - Bard builds a better dramatic model
WSC-05: Thursday report (1971) - Shakespeare from Freud’s perspective
WSC-06: Friday report (1971) - Behind the scenes is a student team
WSC-07: First Folio feature (1971) - Performance, preservation in the blood
WSC-08: Saturday report (1971) - Kozintsev a man from the other side
WSC-09: Closing report (1971) - Film preserves not text but metaphor
WSC-10: Summary feature (1971) - Toasting the vision of Rudie Habenicht
Xanadu (1980) - Mysterious misfire from a decent director
Yentl (1983) - Diva-director's debut a charming oddity
Young Guns II (1990) - Charisma not the same as having a plan
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) - Pulp thrills in place of deductive skills
Young Winston (1972) - Modern touches at odds with epic approach
Zelly and Me (1988) - Surviving pre-teen separation anxiety
Zulu Dawn (1979) - Churchillian flag-waving out of fashion
Vancouver Memories
Crusade that Cleaned Up Comics (1967) - No Hope for an historian’s interview
BC Film History
B.C. Feature Films 1 - Reeling Back to the Silent era
B.C. Feature Films 2 - Victoria's 'quota quickies' (1932-38)
B.C. Feature Films 3 - Outside Vancouver (1937-75)
B.C. Feature Films 4 - Vancouver: Beginnings (1932-69)
B.C. Feature Films 5 - Vancouver features (1970-71)
B.C. Feature Films 6 - Vancouver feature films (1972-75)
B.C. Feature Films 7 - Miscellaneous films & sources
B.C. Film Firsts - In B.C., our movie history starts here
Filmmaking Industry 1 - Introducing an Encyclopedia entry
Filmmaking Industry 2 - In Silent Forests (1897-1920)
Filmmaking Industry 3 - Victoria’s Quota Quickies (1933-1938)
Filmmaking Industry 4 - The Pre-Television era (1939-1952)
Filmmaking Industry 5 - From TV to the CFDC (1953-1967)
Filmmaking Industry 6 - From CFDC to BCFC (1968-1977)
Filmmaking Industry 7 - Welcome to Brollywood (1978-2000)
Filmmaking Industry 8 - Bibliography for all sources consulted
VanBook Feature Film Fest 01 - Honouring Vancouver's pioneers
VanBook Feature Film Fest 02 - Filmed in God's Country
VanBook Feature Film Fest 03 - The future is filmed here
VanBook Feature Film Fest 04 - Documenting reality
VanBook Feature Film Fest 05 - The young and the restless
VanBook Feature Film Fest 06 - Romance in the rain forest
VanBook Feature Film Fest 07 - Play it again, Vancouver
VanBook Feature Film Fest 08 - Vancouver actually playing Vancouver
VanBook Feature Film Fest 09 - Spawning sequels, and even series
VanBook Feature Film Fest 10 - Acting opposite big scene country
VanBook Feature Film Fest 11 - Honouring Vancouver's own auteur
VanBook Feature Film Fest 12 - Shooting high hopes on low budgets
VanBook Feature Film Fest 13 - Fears factored into filmic equation
VanBook Feature Film Fest 14 - Exploring mad, mad, mad worlds
VanBook Feature Film Fest 15 - Variations on the thin blue plotline
VanBook Feature Film Fest 16 - Sending in the clowns
VanBook Feature Film Fest 17 - Scene-stealers working for treats
VanBook Feature Film Fest 18 - Translating B.C.'s beauty to the world
VanBook Feature Film Fest 19 - Something for after-hours audiences
VanBook Feature Film Fest 20 - Taking the picture show on the road
VanBook Feature Film Fest INDEX - Navigating 70 years of B.C. film history
Made in B.C.
Accused, The (1988) - Message delivered with stunning force
American Boyfriends (1989) - Teens enjoy autumn's leavetaking
Another Smith for Paradise (1972) - Smitty does well by doing good
Another Stakeout (1993) - Second helping just a little different
Battle in Seattle (2007) - People aware that the WTO is bad
Bear Island (1979) - Adventure lacks leaven of humour
Best Day Ever: Aiden Kesler 1994-2011 (2011) - Teen rages against dying of the light
Better Than Chocolate (1999) - Soft centres, hard centres . . . I like all the chocolates in the box
Bird on a Wire (1990) - Multiple roles for versatile vancouver
Boy Who Could Fly, The (1986) - Fine fantasy explores magic of belief
Burning Season, The (1993) - Exploring feminism’s consequences
By Design (1982) - A non-formula domestic comedy
Cabin in the Woods, The (2012) - Horror homage a Whedon winner
Cadence (1990) - Status quo served by class warfare
Certain Fury (1985) - Young stars already past their prime
Chaindance (1991) - Finding a different way to do things
Changeling, The (1980) - An uneasy presence lurks within
Christina (1974) - Starring Vancouver as Big Town, U.S.A.
Clan of the Cave Bear (1986) - Evolution epic both serious and silly
Cold Front (1989) - Script a minute short of hard-boiled
Cousins (1989) - Transatlantic transition works a treat
Crooked Hearts (1991) - Because everybody's family is crazy
Dead Wrong (1983) - So Canadian to play cops for laughs
Deserters (1983) - Vietnam conflict's Vancouver front
Distant Thunder (1988) - Torn between fairness and popularity
Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995) - Best friends survive in the wilderness
First Season, The (1989) - Survival and adjustment on the bridge
Fly II, The (1989) - Little more than good-looking gore
Food of the Gods, The (1976) - Wells never given a sporting chance
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) - Water-logged maniac is back again
Grey Fox, The (1982) - Inspired by a new, different frontier
Grocer’s Wife, The (1991) - Fantasy offers art on training wheels
Groundstar Conspiracy, The (1972) - SFU ground zero for sci-fi in B.C.
Harry in Your Pocket (1973) - Personal relations shortchanged
High Stakes (1987) - Gross screenplay defeats comic intent
Hookers On Davie (1984; doc) - Documentary seen as activist cinema
Housekeeping (1987) - Sisters shown world of possibilities
Impolite (1993) - Impolite Chronicles A Death Foretold
Inbreaker, The (1974) - Script fails to answer basic questions
Journey Into Fear (1975) - Name cast no guarantee of success
Kitsilano Solar House (1980; doc) - Finding something new under the sun
Knight_Moves (1992) - King's Game played for psycho shocks
Legend of Kootenai Brown, The (1991) - Having fun with B.C. history
Life and Times of Chester-Angus Ramsgood, The (1970) - Aspirations exceed accomplishments
Look Who's Talking Now (1993) - Third Vancouver visit all bark, no bite
Look Who's Talking Too (1990) - Mr. Toilet Man a problem
Matinee (aka Midnight Matinee; 1989) - Characters developed, not body count
My American Cousin (1985) - Satisfying tale of summer survival
Needful Things (1993) - Castle Rock found on B.C. coast
Never Cry Wolf (1983) - Smith captures spirit of Mowat
Neverending Story, The (1984) - Inner logic lacking in fantasy epic
North of Pittsburgh (1992) - Seeking justice, or maybe just survival
Out of the Blue (CeBe,1980; No Looking Back, 1983) - Tale's raw realism reflects punk era
Prophecy (1979) - Monster mania trumps serious issues
Pure Luck (1991) - Laughter somehow lost in translation
Quarantine (1989) - Techno-punk parable a prophetic tale
Rainbow Boys, The (1973) - Star's performance as good as gold
Rocky IV (1985) - Cold warriors warmed over
Roxanne (1987) - Romantic comedy with a classic twist
Runaway (1984) - Future cops battle bad 'bots
Russian Roulette (1975) - Taking a shot at cold war stereotypes
Shanks (1974) - Collaboration is creatively confused
Shoot to Kill (1988) - Jurisdictional issues ignored
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) - Lots to like in an amiable sci-fi mess
Squamish Five, The (1988) - Bombs at the centre of direct action
Stakeout (1987) - Comic plot pays off in serious shocks
Star 80 (1983) - Every man’s fantasy a true-life tragedy
Stay Tuned (1992) - TV satire is like watching souls fry
Strange Brew: The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie (1983) - Sharing a brew with Bob, Doug and Will
Street Kids (1985; doc) - Making sense of life on the street
Stripper (1986; doc) - Recognition and respect for the world's best
Supreme Kid, The (1977) - A dark dream of desperation, despair
Thing, The (1982) - Close encounter of an unpleasant kind
This Boy's Life (1993) - Making the best of a bad bargain
Timecop (1994) - The future of law enforcement
Tokyo Cowboy (1994) - Comic vision a singular achievement
Ups and Downs (1983) - Approval no guarantee of authenticity
Vixen! (1968) - Busty blockbuster set in beautiful B.C.
We’re No Angels (1989) - Faithless remake fails to be funny
Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989) - Jokes that neither win, place nor show
Wolfpen Principle, The (1974) - Seeking freedom from an urban cage
Made in Canada
Action: The October Crisis of 1970 (1974; doc) - Posing questions, wrestling with answers
Adjuster, The (1991) - Psycho-drama targets social concerns
Agnes of God (1985) - Drama offers a clash of symbols
Alien Thunder (Le tonnerre rouge; aka Dan Candy's Law; 1974) - Redneck redcoat's tale turns tragic
Amateur, The (1981) - Taking the Company's business private
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The (1974) - Flatmates' pact results in fine film
Atlantic City (1980) - Never too late to make good
Back in Action (1993) - Specializing in familiar stock shocks
Bay Boy, The (1984) - Director's homecoming a family affair
Beautiful Dreamers (1990) - Art and science find common cause
Beavers (1988; doc) - Celebrating nature’s own dam builder
Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) - Awkward telling of the passionate tale
Between Friends (1973) - Shebib follows the wrong story
Bingo (1974) - Vision includes street-level humanity
Black Christmas (1974) - Sorority house stalking shocker
Black Robe (1991) - The 1630s seen in 1950s shades of grey
Blindside (1987) - Serious stuff struggling to get out
Brood, The (1979) - Probes modern medical malfeasance
Brother of the Wind (1972) - Wolf ways downright primitive, savage
Buried on Sunday (1992) - Island decides to take its fish and go
Calendar (1993) - Language only part of the problem
Cannibal Girls (1973) - Offering something new on the menu
Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) - Car 54, Where Are You? Good lord, it's Toronto!
Carry On Sergeant! (1928) - Exploiting Canada's service tradition
Child Under a Leaf (1974) - Child bearing seen as a malicious act
China Mission (1980; doc) - Film a disservice to a great Canadian
Christmas Story, A (1983) - One film that really is a classic
Class of '44 (1973) - Shallow sequel gets a failing grade
Clearcut (Terre Rouge; 1991) - Spirit of the land taking its revenge
Concrete Angels (1987) - Rockin’ out on Toronto’s mean streets
Cordélia (1980) - Period piece made timeless drama
Crazy Moon (1987) - Examining some early indiscretions
Dance Me Outside (1994) - Not just growing up, but growing wise
Dead Zone, The (1983) - Second sight shows future shocks
Death Hunt (1981) - Falsifying history for fun and profit
Death Ship (1980) - Ship's cargo a load of Nazi nonsense
Death Weekend (The House by the Lake; 1976) - Her choice is submission or survival
Decline of the American Empire, The (Le déclin de l'empire américain; 1986) - Ciné excellence has a Québec accent
Diplomatic Immunity (1991) - Making the choice not to walk away
Dog Who Stopped the War, The (La guerre des tuques; 1984) - Snow queen commands ice palace
Dolores Claiborne (1995) - Essentially it’s a homicidal chick flick
East End Hustle (1976) - Director wants to be taken seriously
Falling Over Backward (1990) - Sentimental journey with a hard edge
Fox, The (1967) - Relocating English lust to Canada
Freshman, The (1990) - Pitched to a screwball comedy crowd
George's Island (1989) - Guarding Kidd's George's Island gold
H (1990) - Intense tragedy of self-imprisonment
Hard Part Begins, The (1973) - With authentic mood and gritty reality
Heartaches (1981) - Shebib goes down the road again
High (aka In; 1967) - Sex more poignant than passionate
High-Ballin' (1978) - Rural raunch designed for drive-ins
I Love a Man in Uniform (aka A Man in Uniform; 1993) - Seduced by force's dark side
Imaginary Tale, An (Une histoire inventée; 1990) - Comic charm lost after a rape scene
In Praise of Older Women (1978) - In praise of Helen Shaver
Janis (1974; doc) - Truth told between the lines
Jésus de Montréal (1989) - Examining His message in today’s world
John and the Missus (1986) - Tribute paid to magnificent obsession
Joshua Then and Now (1985) - Finding a feature within a mini-series
Journey (1972) - Mind, emotions engaged in flex time
Kamouraska (1973) - Damned until death does them part
Keep It in the Family (1973) - Ham steak, overdone, thickly sliced
La Florida (1993) - Francophone family follows a dream
Latitude 55° (1982) - Caught in a blizzard of discovery
L’homme à tout faire (The Handyman; 1980) - Settling for the strawberry Kool-Aid
Les Ordres (1974) - Examining Canada's October Crisis
Lies My Father Told Me (1975) - An unmoving chronicle of childhood
Love and Human Remains (1993) - Penetrating parable probes our reality
Love at First Sight (1977) - Sight gags outlandish but restrained
Loyalties (1986) - Feminist parable a Canadian classic
Malarek (1988) - Turning a true story into pulp fiction
Maria Chapdelaine (1983) - A Québec classic comes to life
Marie-Anne (1978) - Rich history as Harlequin romance
Married Couple, A (1969; doc) - Creating an urban true-life adventure
Married to It (1991) - A celebration of marital commitment
Masala (1992) - Many influences stirred into the mix
Mâles, Les (The Men; 1971) - Feminism prevails in forest primeval
Meatballs (1979) - Kinder, gentler cousin of Animal House
Mindfield (1989) - Over-the-top take on shocking truths
Montreal Main (1974) - Exploring life as a dramatic happening
Moonstruck (1987) - A tale of Italian-American twitterpation
Mort d'un Bûcheron, La (The Death of a Lumberjack; 1973) - Ambition goes beyond the possible
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) - What have you learned, Dorothy?
Neptune Factor, The (1973) - Important questions are unanswered
North China Commune (1980; doc) - Documenting life in another land
Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981; doc) - Not a lot of honesty or nuance here
Nothing Personal (1980) - Things that don’t make it anymore
Of Unknown Origin (1983) - Maximum tension with minimum gore
One Magic Christmas (1985) - Angel represents Santa with claws
Palais Royale (1988) - Recalling Toronto the Less-than-Good
Paper Wedding (Les Noces de Papier; 1990) - Romantic rebellion in a refugee crisis
Paperback Hero (1973) - Song sets scene for misfit's tale
Partis pour la Gloire (1975) - Quebec resists call to King's war
Peanut Butter Solution, The (1985) - A talent for unconventional invention
Perfectly Normal (1990) - A self-consciously stylish urban satire
Pocahontas: The Legend (1995) - An alternative to the cartoon musical
Police Academy (1984) - Cop show just small screen silliness
Porky's (1982) - Rude humour a Canadian specialty
Porky's II: The Next Day (1983) - Defending Juliet's right to her Romeo
Quest for Fire (1981) - Humour leavens life lessons
Ragtime Summer (1977) - Conscience in conflict with reputation
Recommendation for Mercy (1975) - Court's decision called into question
Ref, The (1994) - Irish elf provides the profanity
Rejeanne Padovani (1973) - Peeling back the layers of civic decay
Roadkill (1989) - Falls short of spiritual transcendence
Rowdyman, The (1972) - Celebrating a life of whiskey, wenching
Running Brave (1983) - Bias is built into the casting process
Samuel Lount (1985) - Democracy's form shaped by sacrifice
Scandale (1982) - On Her Majesty’s sexual service
Scanners (1981) - Providing a mind-blowing experience
Second Wind (1976) - In pursuit of something more
Sex on Skis (Après-ski; 1971) - Who knows what's lost in translation?
Shadow Dancing (1988) - An unprepossessing possession
Shadow of the Wolf (1992) - Native magic lost in melodramatics
Shape of Things to Come, The (1979) - Cute robot hardly true to Wells
Silence of the North (1981) - Powerful roles for nature, landscape
Silver Streak (1976) - Pryor engineers a great train robbery
South of Wawa (1992) - Recalling Canada's love of losers
Speaking Parts (1989) - Sex and the scan-lined psyche
Special Day, A (Una giornata particolare; 1977) - Historic moment melds sex, politics
Starship Invasions (1977) - Earth’s population problem solved
Storm (1987) - Survival shocker stuck in first gear
Strangers in A Strange Land: The Adventures of a Film Crew in the Heart of China (1988; doc) - Selfless choice as the Canadian way
Surfacing (1981) - Film adaptation lacks directiion
Terry Fox Story, The (1983) - Film not up to its subject's stature
Threshold (1981) - Medical thriller provokes thought
Ticket to Heaven (1981) - Cult addiction a crisis of our times
Tribute (1980) - Heart and hope in human comedy
Two Amorous Women (Deux femmes en or; 1970) - Dubbing dampens film’s joie de vivre
Valérie (1969) - Cultural fallout from Quiet Revolution
Videodrome (1983) - Understanding Cathode Ray Mission
Visitor, The (1974) - Inflaming the winterland imagination
Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976; doc) - Expat author claimed for Canada
Vraie Nature de Bernadette, La (The True Nature of Bernadette; 1972) - Somewhere between saint and whore
Wars, The (1983) - Great War inspires not-so-great film
Wedding In White (1972) - Setting standards in style, sensitivity
White Dawn, The (1974) - Learning the meaning of civilization
White Light (1991) - Surviving a near-death experience
White Room (1990) - Back down a well-travelled path
Why Rock the Boat? (1974) - Canadian take on Capraesque comedy
Winter Tan, A (1987) - Intense, all-stops-out performance
Vancouver Memories
Com-Ex, 1966's Hart House Comic Book Exposition - VanCAF celebrates once and future art
Expo86-01 - The cinematic sequel to Expo 67
Expo86-02 - Small world creates Expo's big shows
Expo86-03 - Small nation produces big innovation
Expo86-04 - One ring to entertain them all
Expo86-05 - Seeing the world in three dimensions
Expo86-06 - Showscan a look into film's future
Expo86-07 - It doesn't get any bigger than IMAX
Expo86-08 - Holovision a smoke & mirrors illusion
Expo86-09 - Video's scene-stealing supporting role
Expo86-10 - One day is worth thousands of photos
Expo86-11 - Simulating visits to faraway places
Expo86-12 - Many screens work to hold attention
Expo86-13 - Much to enjoy on screens off the site
Expo86-14 - Returned from Oz to help the world discover B.C.
Expo86-15 - Communication seriously considered
Expo86-16 - Introducing a 3D format that works
Expo86-17 - State's mission to create the future
Expo86-18 - Neighbours celebrate differences
Expo86-19 - Balanced view of tradition, innovation
Expo86-20 - Central Canada's content contrasted
Expo86-21 - Celebrating the Land of Living Skies
Expo86-22 - Slogan’s origins evoke special spell
Expo86-23 - Promoting a united European future
Expo86-24 - Cosmos becomes a European frontier
Expo86-25 - Nations still playing the train game
Expo86-26 - Involving audiences with star power
Expo86-27 - The Viking approach to exploration
Expo86-28 - An artful approach to Italy’s progress
Expo86-29 - Overcoming tradition’s boundaries
Expo86-30 - Films foreshadow departure to come
Expo86-31 - Memories that have lasted a lifetime
Expo86-32 - Surrounding us with natural beauty
Expo86-33 - Trains, planes once owned by us all
Expo86-34 - Examining Islam and Christianity
Expo86-35 - Introducing a Pacific Rim sensibility
Expo86-36 - Seeking stability in a changing world
Expo86-37 - Looking into global village’s future
Expo86-38 - Final thoughts on our Expo summer
Festival of Christianity and the Arts (1974) - Christianity focus of campus arts fest
Golden Harvest Theatre (1974) - Chinese film empires battle in B.C.
Hollywood Theatre (Vancouver; 1984) - Surviving as an independent
Mensa convention address (2002) - What really happened on 9/11, 2001
Park Theatre (Vancouver; 1990) - “Jesus house” ripe for resurrection
Plaza Theatre (Vancouver; 1993) - Promising to make art its specialty
Point Roberts Theatre (1971) - X-entertainment just over the border
Surf Theatre (Port Coquitlam; 1970) - Adapting program to changing times
Surf Theatre (Port Coquitlam; 1972) - First one in is first to be squeezed out
Tsongas/health care op-ed (1992) - Medicare debate an American tragedy
Vancouver East Cinema (1990) - Curtain falls on an urban institution
Vancouver's Pacific Press (1979) - 8-month-long strike shutters dailies
VCON 2 - Philip K. Dick (1972) - Weighing in on Wells versus Verne
VIFF Jury Duty (1992) - Summoned to serve; first selected
Xrystos voskres! (1971 feature) - The fine art of Ukrainian Easter Eggs
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