This 2019 Portuguese film chronicles the brief but massively influential musical career of singer Antonio Variações who died of AIDS related complications in 1984 but his music is still loved by the Portuguese. As a young boy he listened to the soulful traditional music of Portugal and I don’t mean American soul music but musicContinue reading “RKS Films: Canadian 2021 European Union Film Festival: Antonio Variações-Guardian Angel”
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RKS Films: Canadian 2021 European Union Film Festival: “Inventory”: Kafka Meets Hitchcock
The Slovenian film “Inventory” invokes memories of Hitchcock and Kafka. It is an interesting mix of dark comedy, a thriller and a man in the dark about who his enemies might be until it drives him just about mad. Boris Robič is man just past middle age who is a technical assistant at a businessContinue reading “RKS Films: Canadian 2021 European Union Film Festival: “Inventory”: Kafka Meets Hitchcock”
The 2021 Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)
starts tomorrow! 2021 TRAILER Montreal, Tuesday, November 9, 2021 – The 24th edition of the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) starts tomorrow, Wednesday, November 10. The festival will be held in theatres until November 21, and online from November 14 to 25 on the festival’s platform enligne.ridm.ca, accessible everywhere in Canada. Opening night The festival will open with the screening of Futura by PietroContinue reading “The 2021 Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)“
RKS Film: Looking for a New Christmas Classic? “See You Next Christmas”
I am sure you have a favourite Christmas classic. Is it National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation”? “Home Alone”? “A Christmas Carol”? “White Christmas”? “It’s a Wonderful Life”? Looking for something new? Might you find it in “See You Next Christmas”? Annie (Christine Weatherup) and Tom Clark (Vin Vescio) hold their annual Christmas party “Clarkmas” in theContinue reading “RKS Film: Looking for a New Christmas Classic? “See You Next Christmas””
RKS Film: “Isaac”: Almost Fine Until Lust Blows Up
I watched “Isaac” a Spanish film that leaves me wondering what the message is? In fact I have been ruminating all day what to say about the film. Perhaps that is a supreme compliment to the film that can’t be sliced and diced and simplified into a few descriptive lines. The distributor of the filmContinue reading “RKS Film: “Isaac”: Almost Fine Until Lust Blows Up”
RKS Films: “La Forêt de Mon Pere” (Into Dad’s Woods): The 2021 Canadian European Union Film Festival
“La Forêt de Mon Pere” is a Belgian film exploring the difficult and painful effects of mental illness on a family. Jimmy (Alban Lenoir) is married with a wife and three children including 15-year-old Gina (Léonie Souchaud). Initially Jimmy seems eccentric as we first encounter him sitting up in a tree in the forest withContinue reading “RKS Films: “La Forêt de Mon Pere” (Into Dad’s Woods): The 2021 Canadian European Union Film Festival”
“Chasing Unicorns”: Canadian 2021 European Union Film Festival”
The 2021 Canadian European Union Film Festival goes virtual this year which means Canadian’s coast to coast can all attend. “Chasing Unicorns” is both a satirical and comedic journey on the attempts of Estonians Õie (Liisa Pulk) and Tõnu (Henrik Kalmet) to create a start up that will make them wealthy. Given that there areContinue reading ““Chasing Unicorns”: Canadian 2021 European Union Film Festival””
RKS Films: “The Dance”
This 2021 Irish documentary perhaps has done wonders with a person that had little tolerance for improvisational dance. That person is me. The documentary directed by Pat Collins in a very hands-off fashion chronicles the creation and rehearsal of an Irish production of improvisational dance by Irish choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan and his dance troupe ofContinue reading “RKS Films: “The Dance””
Canadian 2021 European Union Film Festival
EXPERIENCE EUROPE WITHOUT THE JETLAG AT THE 2021 VIRTUAL EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL The 2021 European Union Film Festival builds on the success of last year’s virtual format to provide nation-wide access to some of the best films Europe has to offer, including a number of women and BIPOC directors, documentaries, and LGBTQ2+ films. ForContinue reading “Canadian 2021 European Union Film Festival”
RKS Films: “Bad Ben Benign”
Aren’t you supposed to cringe in terror watching a horror movie? “Bad Ben Benign” is the ninth film in the Bad Ben Series. I come to it initially with installment 9 so I may be missing some deep contextual concept. But on the other hand as a newbie I may bring a fresh and unbiasedContinue reading “RKS Films: “Bad Ben Benign””
