Tuesday, September 20, 2022

VIFF Previews #2: a lazy person's guide to some major VIFF events, AKA, a shake through the auteurist sieve

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So some other VIFF notes... I have already mentioned a few high profile films that I will likely have to wait until the VIFF proper to see, ...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

VIFF Previews #1: Sick of Myself, Zeb's Spider, Maigret, Women Talking, and the new documentary from the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab

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So the VIFF schedule is now online. I always do a fast peruse to see what I might be excited to catch or write about, mostly looking at dir...
Monday, September 12, 2022

Weird dreams of shitting myself, plus death and ashes

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This blogpost is dedicated to the memory of the late Harry Creech, a Vancouver Island musician who wrote the best song about shitting yourse...
Friday, September 09, 2022

The decision to euthanize: Tybalt's final day (updated)

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Part One: Written Before Probably the cat's last day. Erika is home from work, and we've been exploring euthanasia options - there a...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

The Empress of Vancouver at the VIFF Centre: a documentary about Oliv Howe (and Vancouver's homophobic 1980s).

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Note: I use a couple of homophobic slurs in this piece of writing, to describe things routinely said to me (and many other people) back in t...
Wednesday, September 07, 2022

The Real Ponchos play the Moonshinin' Music Fest: an Emile Scott interview

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The Real Ponchos by Mallory Lupick The Real Ponchos - bandcamp here - are, as Mike Usinger once observed, " not your grandparents...