Category Archives: Film Festivals

#AFF2016 — Women Who Kill, L’Avenir (Things To Come) reviews

September 19, 2016 flawintheiris

Women Who Kill Written and Directed by Ingrid Jungermann | 93 min Morgan (writer/director Jungermann) and Jean (Ann Carr) are ex-lovers who co-host a podcast about female serial killers and live together in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Their morbid fascination with ladies who deal death isn't entirely explained, but it does bind them together in ways…Read More

#AFF2016 — Personal Shopper, American Honey, Operation Avalanche reviews

September 18, 2016 flawintheiris

Personal Shopper Written and Directed by Oliver Assayas | 105 min Personal Shopper is a film that refuses to pay off, but in the most delightful way. Assayas directed Stewart in The Clouds of Sils Maria, and once again creates a character for Kristen Stewart that's in a position of subservience to someone famous, though this…Read More

#AFF2016 — Moonlight, Toni Erdmann reviews

September 17, 2016 flawintheiris

Moonlight Directed by Barry Jenkins | Written by Jenkins and Tarell McCraney | 110 min The story of a boy who becomes a teen who becomes a man, but this isn't a coming-of-age movie. It's a cultural snapshot in three chapters. Little (Alex R. Hibbert) is a black boy living in Miami. He's beaten up…Read More

#AFF2016 Opening Gala: Maudie review

September 16, 2016 flawintheiris

This year's festival got off to a strong start with the Opening Gala screening of Maudie and the annual party, this one taking place at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the perfect location given the subject of the film, folk artist Maud Lewis. Like the last AFF, the opening film was screened at the Rebecca…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2016 Preview

September 15, 2016 flawintheiris

Here we are again, that moment in September when Halifax goes movie crazy. I've been attending The Atlantic Film Festival since 2003. That year the festival programmers screened some of the biggest and most beloved films of the year (Lost In Translation) along with the obscure, but no less delightful, gems ( such as Wilbur Wants To…Read More

The AFF 2016 Atlantic Program Announced

August 10, 2016 flawintheiris

On Wednesday morning the Atlantic Film Festival announced their program of films from the Atlantic region to screen at the annual festival, which runs September 15-22. The national and international films are announced in two weeks, on August 24. There are a few strong contenders in this year's list. I'm interested in seeing Bruce McDonald's new…Read More

2015 at the Movies

December 30, 2015 flawintheiris

I've been considering my Top 10 of 2015 list, which unfortunately won't be arriving until mid-January earliest, following the release of The Revenant. I'm really hoping to see 45 Years, too. It's the same every January... the late releases from the year before open in town weeks after their arrival in bigger markets. Looking back at…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Eighth Post/Day — Finale with a Shotgun Blast

September 25, 2015 flawintheiris

Just got in from the screening of Green Room, perfectly ending the #AFF2015 on a note of white-knuckle tension. Green Room Written and Directed by Jeremy Saulnier | 94 min. I fucking love this filmmaker. His Blue Ruin from last year really impressed, and this is a hell of a follow-up, a powerful thrill-ride that…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Seventh Post — People Suck Edition

September 24, 2015 flawintheiris

The Look of Silence Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer | 103 min. As the credits roll, you'll notice Oppenheimer has plenty of help from anonymous technicians, people on the ground in Indonesia whose lives may be in danger if the government finds out who they are. And so it was with his 2013 film, The Act Of Killing. Interesting…Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2015: Post Six — Biopic Tuesday

September 23, 2015 flawintheiris

Life Directed by Anton Corbijn | Written by Luke Davies | 111 min. Though I heard a scoff or two from a fellow #AFF2015-goer when I admitted I was attending the R-Patz drama, it wasn't the former Twilight actor that drew me to the film, it was the director: Corbijn got his start as a…Read More