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More streaming ideas take you to Brazil, low-life China and two Jesse Eisenberg films

Volkmar Richter — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:55:00 +0000

As well as a cleverly-plotted trip to Barcelona thanks to Netflix

Some early Film Festival picks, including my #1

Volkmar Richter — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:56:00 +0000

Films from Morocco, Spain, Korea, California and Hamilton, Ontario. Plus, a documentary about a scary future

Films about Alita, a troubled cyborg, Mads, lost in the Arctic and Rebel lost in a dream

Volkmar Richter — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:15:00 +0000

Also films attached to the big comedy festival in town right now

Tom Hanks as a hero pilot, Robinson Crusoe mangled in animation and Hieronimus Bosch’s fantastic art up close

Volkmar Richter — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 12:03:00 +0000

Also a scholarly-scandalous hybrid at The Academy of the Muses

More X-Men, another Alice fantasy and two films about the status of women

Volkmar Richter — Fri, 27 May 2016 14:10:00 +0000

There are five of these “smaller” films: Love & Friendship, Sunset Song, The Boy and the Beast, Truman and Borealis

Young adult action in Insurgent and two wonderful road movies

Volkmar Richter — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 16:02:00 +0000

Spain’s Living is Easy With Eyes Closed and China’s Lost and Love are worth seeking out

Two sides of the American way: Man of Steel and Dirty Wars. Also, a Spanish Snow White and The East

Volkmar Richter — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:46:00 +0000

Superman is back with a new suit and a new attitude

Spain's Princess Letizia: royal, but not immune to sexism in media

Gisela Gómez — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:02:00 +0000

A divorced journalist will be the future Queen of Spain. Letizia Ortiz, an educated woman, is judged harshly by the media for her appearance and marital status.

You All are Captains: a film on filmmaking with Moroccan children

Pamela Grcic — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:35:00 +0000

You All are Captains recounts the experiences of an European director teaching filmmaking to a group of disadvantaged children in Morocco.

A Spanish caravan of films arrives Friday in Vancouver

Pamela Grcic — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:01:00 +0000

Animation, documentaries and sweeping historical drama takes over Vancouver screens this week.