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Search Results for: boys state

Stratford Festival Hamlet

Alex Heeney / July 10, 2015

Stratford Festival 2015: Hamlet is a terrific, tense family drama

…the head of state, responsible for the body politic. Gone are Hamlet’s constant references to his brains and much of the meta-narrative. Impressively, what’s been cut isn’t obvious at first…

Minotauro

Willow Maclay / August 30, 2015

TIFF 15: Minotauro has interesting ideas but overstays its welcome

…stationary images. Secco’s work is the glue that holds the movie together. The images presented here carry an ethereal feeling evocative of the inbetween state of awake and rest. The…

Racing Extinction

Alex Heeney / October 6, 2015

Racing Extinction: awe-inspiring images overpowered by activism narrative

…a full picture. Obscura Digital’s projection on the Empire State Building. Courtesy of Ocean Preservation Society. The last third of the film is dedicated to showing the activists’ collaboration with…

Adam Garnet Jones, Fire Song

Alex Heeney / May 10, 2016

Adam Garnet Jones on Fire Song: ‘A film about a feeling’

…feature film, and they might not understand the responsibility of that.” Garnet Jones felt the camera should always be “expressive of Shane’s emotional state.” This impacted the camera setup he…

Entertainment, Rick Alverson

Alex Heeney / November 13, 2015

Director Rick Alverson talks Entertainment and upending audience expectations

…is pre-determined, it subjugates the viewer into a state of passivity and anesthetizes them. I think that’s bad for culture and for politics. It creates legions of zombies. Passivity is…

Spectre Review

Alex Heeney / November 7, 2015

Spectre Review: Mendes pulls from Shakespeare

…suddenly forming a black-clad army. Bond — and by extension, the audience — finds himself physically surrounded by an ominous surveillance state. Meanwhile, Mendes does everything he can to weaken…

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