Writer-director Rick Alverson discusses his confronting new film ‘Entertainment,’ in which he intended to “upend expectation of what a movie should be and what behaviour should be.”
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Spectre Review: Mendes pulls from Shakespeare
How Sam Mendes borrowed from his King Lear production at the National Theatre when making his second James Bond film, Spectre.
A Month of Sundays director Matthew Saville talks TV vs. film
Writer-director Matthew Saville discusses his film A Month of Sundays and TV show Please Like Me at TIFF15.
‘Snap, Snap, Snap’: making Please Like Me
Josh Thomas and Matthew Saville discuss the making of the third season of their groundbreaking series Please Like Me.
This Changes Everything doesn’t preach on climate change
Avi Lewis’ documentary This Changes Everything looks at the narrative for civilization that allowed climate change to happen. Without preaching, the film takes a look at grassroots movements that are helping to mitigate climate change.
Nasty Baby is a half-baked bougie satire
The film gleefully sends up bourgeois attitudes as ridiculous before suggesting they’re harmful. Yet we’re not meant to dislike the characters causing harm. It’s an interesting premise that hasn’t been fully fleshed out. Likewise, Silva’s choice to shoot the film handheld, in all its clumsiness, prevents the film from ever being a beautiful work of art. It’s an aesthetic designed to be cheap and adaptable to an improvised script, but it doesn’t allow for much formal rigour. It lulls us into a kind of complacency, setting up a story of middle-class liberalism, before subverting the genre’s expectations.