First Festival Screening – August 21, 2015 @ 6:45 PM at SFU GCA Also known as Ce Qu’on A Building from the complexities arising from gay cruising and relationships in a small town, What We Have is a gorgeously constructed film marking the arrival of a signature new queer Canadian talent, Maxime Desmons (writer/director/star). Maurice, […]
Festival Screening – August 20, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at SFU GCA In one of the most thoughtful documentaries on gender non-conformity we’ve seen, director Lonny Shavelson offers us an inspirational and loving essay on the multiplicity of genders outside the binary. A landmark contribution to cinema on genderqueer, gender variant and gender non-conforming identities, […]
Festival Screening – August 15, 2015 @ 9:15 PM at International Village At a time when gay porn was rough and raunchy, the sex in a Peter de Rome movie was compared to “a beautiful watercolour” and the man himself to a “typical British gentleman.” In clips as nostalgic as they are explicit, de Rome […]
Festival Screening – August 14, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at Rio Theatre Lily Tomlin fans, rejoice! She’s clearly having a ball in Grandma, a rousing, exhilarating joyride that brings limitless energy and a decidedly un-Hollywood approach to storytelling about three generations of women. Here, the carefree feminist plot reveals itself early when Elle’s (Lily Tomlin) […]
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 […]
