
Siff 2022 Review: Quant
Sometimes, the stars align and an incredibly talented person is in just the right time and place to do something revolutionary. Continue reading Siff 2022 Review: Quant
Sometimes, the stars align and an incredibly talented person is in just the right time and place to do something revolutionary. Continue reading Siff 2022 Review: Quant
“Young Plato” is a lovely story of how much a child can be impacted by someone in their lives who guides them with kindness and reason. Continue reading SIFF Review: Young Plato
Sinead O’Connor was an explosive presence to anyone who was young in the 1980’s. Androgynous, furious and mysterious, she seemed to descend upon popular music like the wailing banshee from the folklore of her native country. Continue reading SIFF 2022 Review: Nothing Compares
Like any Italian woman, she is concerned about what he is eating in a foreign country that thinks that pizza should taste like ketchup on cardboard. Continue reading SIFF 2022 Review: Lonely Voices (Le Voci Sole)
Grief is a mysterious thing. It can linger below the surface of our awareness like driftwood bobbing under the edge of a wave. Continue reading SIFF 2022 Review: Midday Black, Midnight Blue
Year: 2022 Runtime: 65 minutes Director: Norbert Pfaffenbichler Writer: Norbert Pfaffenbichler Cast: Stefan Erber, David Ionescu By Joan Amenn This film is a strange amalgamation of dystopian horror, Grand Guignol and a homage to Charlie Chaplin. If experimental film is your thing, you may find “2551.01” (2022) a fascinatingly phantasmagoric ride. If not, the film may just frustrate with its hallucinatory images and lack of … Continue reading SIFF 2022 Review: 2551.01
This is a film about war which is indiscriminate in what it destroys and no one bears the terrible burden of that destruction more than the women of the world. Continue reading SIFF 2022 Review: Klondike
As Art Cullen writes in one of his editorials, “Tyranny prevails wherever the press is not free.”
Continue reading Storm Lake: SIFF DocFest 2021 Review
Year: 2020 Runtime: 98 minutes . Director: German Acuna Starring: Consuelo Pizarro, Marcelo Liapiz, Jorge Lillo By: Tom Moore Director German Acuna creates a delightfully adventurous animated coming of age tale with his directorial debut “Nahuel and the Magic Book”(2020). The film follows a young boy named Nahuel (voiced by Consuelo Pizarro) who yearns to impress his sea-faring father but struggles to work beside him … Continue reading SIFF 2021 Review: Nahuel and the Magic Book
Year: 2020 Runtime: 91 minutes . Director: Francois Ozon Starring: Felix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge By: Tom Moore Writer/director Francois Ozon’s latest feature is a sun-soaked summer tale of love and friendship in France with “Summer of 85”. The film, partly based on Aidan Chambers’ 1982 novel “Dance on My Grave”, follows a wallflower teen named Alex (Felix Lefebvre) who begins a strong friendship … Continue reading SIFF 2021 Review: Summer of 85