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Film review: Illusion and self-delusion as The Last Showgirl looks at a changing Las Vegas

Stunning performances in dreamily shot ode to women cast aside as Sin City leaves the rhinestone era

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 16, 2025Pamela Anderson

Film review: Monsieur Aznavour takes a sweeping trip through the early days of chanson

Romantic locales, witty repartee, and entrancing music in biopic about “France’s Frank Sinatra”

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 14, 2025Visions Ouest, Visions Ouest Productions, VISIONS OUEST, Alliance Francaise

Sons documentary looks at masculinity and what it means to raise a male child in today’s world

New NFB release by Newfoundland and Labrador filmmaker Justin Simms raises many questions about parenting in the era of Donald Trump and Andrew Tate

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025NFB, National Film Board, documentary

Film review: The Brutalist takes an epic look at art, trauma, and the American Dream

Transfixing acting and big ideas as film tracks an architect-refugee trying to rebuild in the U.S.

SCREEN, ART & DESIGNJanet SmithJanuary 10, 2025Cineplex

Vancouver's Tracey Friesen remembered for long-standing commitment to social and environmental justice

The former executive producer at the National Film Board of Canada believed in the power of documentary filmmaking to drive social change

SCREENJanet SmithJanuary 9, 2025NFB, National Film Board, Whistler Film Festival

Sumptuous colours and discussions of death, as Almodóvar's The Room Next Door opens January 10

Subplot tangents and heightened acting as Spanish auteur takes stylized work in a more sombre direction

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 8, 2025Tilda Swinton

Sundar Prize Film Festival announces first-ever Filmmaker Mentorship Program cohort

Emerging filmmakers Kuntal Patel, Amit Dhuga, and Amarnath Sankar will receive mentorship from Vinay Giridhar, Sean Farnel, and King Louie Palomo

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverJanuary 6, 2025Partner Content, Sundar Prize Film Festival

Living Together paints a layered portrait of Gen Z and the housing crisis, January 3 to 9

Minimalistic Montreal documentary follows renters interviewing fellow roommates, with revealing results

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJanuary 2, 2025NFB, National Film Board, housing

Film review: All We Imagine as Light takes a deeply moving look at women toiling in Mumbai

The fiercely feminist film is shot with dreamlike beauty, often at night, in story of love and longing

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 30, 2024VIFF Centre, VIFF

So Surreal: Behind the Masks searches for ceremonial pieces, at VIFF Centre to January 8

Part detective story, part art-history rethink, documentary travels from B.C.and Alaska to Paris to find stunning Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Yup’ik works that influenced Surrealists

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 26, 2024VIFF Centre, VIFF, Indigenous artists, Indigenous

Tennis triangles and Bhutanese comedy: VIFF Centre kicks off Best of 2024 series, Boxing Day to January 2

Challengers and The Monk and the Gun kick off holiday big-screen series

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 23, 2024VIFF, VIFF Centre, Vancouver International Film Festival

From the Southwestern desert to candy-hued France, two glorious restorations hit the Cinematheque, to January 14

Thelma & Louise and Umbrellas of Cherbourg are part of the theatre’s Essential Big Screen 2024 series

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithDecember 20, 2024The Cinematheque

Andrew Crust conducts Elf in Concert at the VSO, December 20 and 21

Audiences can watch the beloved Christmas film on the big screen while musicians perform John Debney’s original score live

MUSIC, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 17, 2024VSO, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Holiday 2024

The End makes an unlikely mix of musical and post-apocalyptic family drama, at VIFF Centre to December 21

Everything is heightened in Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling parody of privilege and willful ignorance

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 13, 2024VIFF Centre, VIFF

The Cinematheque launches ode to Ozu with masterworks from Tokyo Story to End of Summer

Persistent smiles and anguish; geometric interiors and painstaking compositions in Japanese director’s well- and lesser-known films

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 12, 2024The Cinematheque, Homepage feature

Whistler Film Festival announces 2024 award winners

Really Happy Someday wins Borsos Award for best Canadian feature film

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 10, 2024Whistler Film Festival

Film review: La Cocina captures the chaos, broken dreams, and camaraderie of a Times Square kitchen

Energetically shot new film explores profound—and timely—issues around undocumented immigrants and class divisions in America

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 5, 2024VIFF, VIFF Centre

Vancouver International Black Film Festival shines a light on Black artists

Fabienne Colas launched her self-titled foundation to mount Black film festivals all across Canada

SCREEN, FESTSJanet SmithDecember 5, 2024Vancouver International Black Film Festival

Film reviews: At Whistler Film Festival, eco-warriors and women in film

Fairy Creek and Resident Orca follow impassioned fights, while NiiMisSak: Sisters In Film celebrates Indigenous impacts onscreen

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 4, 2024Whistler Film Festival, Whistler, Jules Koostachin

At Whistler Film Festival, Hunting Matthew Nichols plays with true-crime genre to scary effect

Producer-screenwriter Sean Harris Oliver toys with reality as “documentary” crew follows story of two missing teens into the deep, dark woods of Vancouver Island

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithNovember 28, 2024Whistler Film Festival

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