On Friday September 28th, Scott Wood, host of the interview show, attended the Vancouver International Film Festival’s screening of Terror’s Advocate.
Terror's Advocate (L' Avocat de la terreur)
France, 2007, 138 min, 35mm
Directed By: Barbet Schroeder
Rose Marie Borutski, Host of Health Matters (Fridays 4-5pm) viewed 49 UP, by film maker Michael Apted, which played at the Pacific Cinematheque. This extrordinary documentary is part of a long-standing series that makes one ask some very deep questions about life choices. Imagine how you would answer some really, really tough questions every seven years....
The Notorious Bettie Page, directed by Mary Harron and written by Harron and Guinevere Turner, opens in the lower mainland April 28th. CJSF’s Susan Grossman reviews…
The Notorious Bettie Page, directed by Mary Harron and written by Harron and Guinevere Turner, is a film about the “pin-up queen of the universe,” Bettie Page. The film follows Page, adeptly played by Gretchen Mol, beginning with her days as a young church-going schoolgirl in the South to her rise as an iconoclastic sex symbol and her subsequent return to religious life.
Little Fish, written and directed by Rowan Woods, is a film about a dysfunctional family learning to cope with the lies and betrayals of their recent past.
Acclaimed writer and director Woody Allen ends his hiatus with his latest film, Match Point. Allen takes the initiative to venture beyond the Bronx, New Jersey and Cosmopolitan New York to London.
Cache (Hidden), written and directed by Michael Haneke, follows Georges, a television talk show host, and his wife Anne, played by Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche. These characters live an idyllic life of dinner parties, swim meets, and private schools. Their tranquil life, however, is shattered when a series of mysterious videotapes begin to turn up on their doorstep.
How does one create music when one is eighty percent deaf? Such a premise would seem to be ripe pickings for a new breed of Hollywood-esque docudramas that have been growing inpopularity lately (ie. Spellbound, Murderball, Mad Hot Ballroom, etc.). However, Thomas Riedelsheimer's documentary about Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie, transcends the formulaic and is a meditation on human communication, sensation and experience.
