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The more passionate a city is about a sports franchise, the more it focuses on the minutia of a team.
In the case of Vancouverites, including myself, questions about our hockey team can go on 24/7/365.
Last year before the season started, one of the questions concerned the design of Roberto Luongo’s goalie […]
Oct
3
The Man in the Goalie Mask
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Oct
3
VIFF Review: Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
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Sidney Lumet’s Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead (Find Me Guilty, Strip Search, Guilty as Sin) titled after a famous Irish blessing, “may you be in heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead” is a moral parody of the familial bonds between brothers, and their relationship with their parents. In a […]
Oct
3
VIFF Review: Mischief Night
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Penny Woolcock’s (The Principles of Lust, Exodus) Mischief Night is a witty, swift, subtle, highly-paced political-comedy setting out the racial, class, and generational intersects in a seemingly dynamic town in Yorkshire on the streets of Leeds and Bradford, both in its homes, and in its alleys. At the same time as we see the […]
Oct
3
VIFF Review: Useless (WU YONG)
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China’s Jia Zhang-Ke unfurls his new documentary, “Useless” (Wu Yong). Named after a fashion label Chinese Designer Ma Ke, this documentary sets Ma Ke’s preparation of her ‘Useless’ label at the Paris Fashion show. However, Jia’s film does more than just showcases Ma Ke. Through her vision — Fashion as conceptual Art — Jia juxtaposes […]
