May 5, 2007
Le Peuple invisible (2007) **
Shocking documentary about the plight of Algonquin Indians in western Quebec.
The End Of The Line (2007) *
Canadian horror movie about terrible mutants wrecking havoc in subway tunnels. Directed by Maurice Devereaux ("Slashers").
Le Ring (2007) **
Interesting film about a young boy from a poor neighborhood dreaming of becoming a wrestler.
À vos marques, party! (2007) *
A cross between "Pretty In Pink" and "She's All That", but with a French-Canadian flavor.
Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi (2007) *
Well-directed, but extremely slow movie about an ex-football player hired as a hitman.
April 4, 2007
The Job (2007) **
A group of well-dressed businessmen and women gather outside a mid-level office park. The silence is broken by a pick-up truck blaring mariachi music. The driver needs two lawyers, an accountant and a CEO. When this film was made in 2007, it was clearly a satire about illegal immigrants and the way they're treated by employers. But then, after the economic crash of 2008-2010, the film has acquired an entirely new meaning - a satire on white-collar unemployement.
Freeheld (2007) *
Même les pigeons vont au paradis (2007) ***
Peter And The Wolf (2007) ***
Excellent cartoon based on the famous Prokofiev's music piece. An Oscar-winning co-production between UK and Poland.
I Met The Walrus (2007) ***
An inventive cartoon based on an interview of John Lennon by Jerry Levitan in 1969. Levitan, then 14 years old, tracked Lennon to his hotel room in Toronto. The animation is based on Levitan's recording of the interview, which was edited down to 5 minutes. Josh Raskin's focus was on the interview itself: "I just wanted to literally animate the words, unfurling in the way I imagined they would appear inside the head of a baffled 14-year-old boy interviewing his idol". Directed by Josh Raskin and produced by Jerry Levitan, the film was nominated for an Oscar.
How To Hook Up Your Home Theatre (2007) ***
A Goofy cartoon, as good as the classic "How To" films from the 1940's and the 1950's.
March 3, 2007
February 2, 2007
There Will Be Blood (2007) **
This film is so expertly directed, so wonderfully acted, so well shot and so well designed, that it is very easy to overlook its mediocre narrative, and mistake it for a masterpiece. However, the story, loosely (but not loosely enough) adapted from a ridiculous and horribly dated novel by Upton Sinclair "Oil", is so simplistic and far-fetched, it drags this otherwise brilliantly realized movie down the drain. All characters are completely devoid of any complexity - they are like refugees from a Soviet socialist realist drama from the Stalinist era. They lack any psychological credibility whatsoever. Paul Thomas Anderson is a wonderfully gifted filmmaker; his mistake was in trying to adapt a very crappy piece of stupid socialist propaganda about evil Yankee exploiters.
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