First Festival Screening – August 13, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Vancouver Playhouse “The greatest film practitioner we’ve ever seen” is how Peter Greenaway refers to Sergei Eisenstein, the 20th century creator of the masterpieces Battleship Potemkin and October. Here, Greenaway offers us his own sumptuous rendition of the director’s 1931 trip to Mexico to […]
by allan tong for FILMbutton Ron Woodruff was a foul-mouthed, ill-mannered redneck who contracted AIDS in 1986. Back then only queers got AIDS, and Dallas was as redneck as it got. Woodruff lost his job, trailer home and friends. A driven, stubborn fellow, he sought every possible cure he could find whether or not it […]
