ReFrame Film Festival: Three Things that I Watched
Sexy Baby – Directed by Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus This was very much a “documentary about sexiness and the cyber age.” There were three main subjects in the film: …
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Trent Film Society Presents: The 400 Blows
François Truffaut’s debut feature The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups, 1959) was welcomed at Cannes Film Festival to overwhelming praise and admiration. Proclaimed as being one of the defining …
‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Feels Like A Bad Episode of Homeland
Jack Ryan, hero of Tom Clancy’s series of novels, is a character born out of the Cold War era. An analyst with the CIA who, more often than not, found …
ReFrame ReVisits Peterborough for the 10th Annual PIFF
In these technologically-oriented times, the arts, specifically filmmaking, rarely gets the attention it deserves. With that being said, ReFrame focuses on bringing the spotlight back on film by returning to …
Spike Jonze Answers The Age Old Question… “If Siri’s Voice Were Hotter Would I Hit On Her?”
Theodore just got out of a relationship and he’s looking for a friend. If that relationship happens to blossom into something more, who’s to say there’s anything wrong with that? …
Enjoy a Free Screening of Rouge Sang, a Canadian Horror Film
Martin Doepner’s Rouge Sang, a.k.a. The Storm Within (2013), takes place in the deep woods of Québec, New Year’s Eve 1799. We are introduced to a family of five who …
A review of The Book Thief: A Tour Through Nazi Germany…
The Book Thief is told from a perspective not often seen in films set in or around World War 2, that of the average German citizen. The lack of material …
Trent Film Society Presents: Caché
Our last screening of the year is Michael Haneke’s Caché (2005). This screening follows our successful screening of Haneke’s 2012 Oscar Winner Amour at Market Hall. Caché appears as part …
Michael Haneke’s Oscar Winning Picture Amour at Market Hall
The story of Amour begins with Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) attending a concert of real-life pianist Alexandre Tharaud, whom we later discover, in the fictional world, is …
I Wish I Had A Sweet Name Like Katniss. I Guess That’s What Children Are For…
For those of you who read these reviews with any regularity (that’s you, Grandma!), you’ll know that my favourite comparison to make is that of Bella Swan from the Twilight …