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White Supremacist Cinema: Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher, UK/USA/Canada, 2019)
‘So humble, it’s embarrassing,’ says John Reid (Richard Madden) to Elton John (Taron Egerton) shortly after they meet in Dexter Fletcher’s biopic of the singer. It is a trait that soon disappears as far as Elton’s possessions are concerned – with the film being in part as great a celebration of consumption, including the consumption…
Ragged Glory Introduction: Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, USA, 1977)
I was delighted this evening (Wednesday 24 August 2022) to introduce John Badham’s Saturday Night Fever as part of the VIFF Centre’s Ragged Glory: Summer in the 70s season in Vancouver. My intro ended up being improvised rather than read, not least because there was a hitch with the projection, which meant that the film…
Cinema Thinks The World: Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan, 2003)
This blog is a write-up of sorts for the first of a series of events that I am putting together in my (still relatively) new hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. Collectively entitled Cinema Thinks The World, the events involve a series of screenings and discussions over the course of the next year and perhaps beyond,…
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi, USA, 2022)
There are numerous films about which I’d love also to blog and which I have of late seen, and yet it is Doctor Strange that motivates me most to make the time to write a post for a few reasons. If foremost among these reasons is that the film brings together a bunch of ideas…
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