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November 24, 2010
My Fantasia 2010: Preamble
I look forward to Fantasia every year. I am one of those who check the festival’s website daily hoping to make my selection for this year’s festival.
April 20, 2010
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus (Steven Shainberg, 2006)
Fur, from director Steven Shainberg, is a deeper exploration of sexually non-normative behaviour and longing for companionship.
September 28, 2010
Coming Home: Melodrama and social change
David Ehrenstein condemns melodramas like Coming Home for perpetuating the illusion that they can affect social change instead of creating real change.
November 28, 2010
Written By (Wai Ka-fai, 2009)
In Written By, after losing his whole family in an accident, a blind writer keeps his loved ones alive by writing them an afterlife.
March 22, 2010
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
In Les Carabiniers, Godard is in control, from playing with our scopophilic gaze in the makeshift rape scene or denying us narcissistic satisfaction.