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Your Mother Ate My Dog! Peter Jackson and Gore-Comedy
Offscreen presents for the first time in its orginal English language, this revised version of an essay that appeared in a French translation in Séquence magazine in 1995. Read on to see how Peter Jackson revolutionized horror (or comedy?) with his startling early feature films.
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Iran 2000: Part 2
Part two of Peter Rist's critical assessment of Iranian films that played at the most recent of the major Montreal film festivals.
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Iran 2000
The first of a two-part critical assessment of recent Iranian cinema seen through the eyes of Montreal film critic and film professor Peter Rist.
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Exquisite Ex-timacy: Jacques Lacan vis-a-vis Contemporary Horror
Using the theories of Lacan, Freud, and Zizek, Gullatz explores the depth of psychic horror across a selection of classic and contemporary horror films.
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Family Viewing and the Spatialization of Time
A look at Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing as both a springboard and touchstone for an inquiry into the nature of time and how shifting perceptions and attitudes toward it have effected society and the individual.
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Meeting Abbas Kiarostami
One of the grand masters of contemporary cinema visits Montreal. Read an exclusive interview here at Offscreen.
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Time, Bergson, and the Cinematographical Mechanism
Why is French philosopher Henri Bergson relevant for today's film theory?
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Hong Kong Meets Hollywood
What happens when Hollywood begins to copy Hong Kong, and Hong Kong begins to copy Hollywood?
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Buster Keaton Rides Again
Will Buster Keaton ever date? Unlikely, as this recent retrospective demonstrates.
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To Scare or Not to Scare
Historically, Halloween has its origins with the ancient Druids, who believed that on the eve of All Saints' Day, the lord of the dead, Saman, would summon a host of evil spirits. In modern days the only evil spirits called on during Halloween (excluding all those little tyrants running around in costumes!) are those emanating from movie screens.
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Iranian Cinema: Before the Revolution
An in-depth historical analysis of pre-Revolution Iranian cinema.
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Chinese Cinema: 1933-1949
From May 19th to May 30th Montreal will host an historically important cultural event when The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and IITS at Concordia University in association with Ciné-Asia present the film series: Chinese Cinema: 1933-1949.
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Three Films by Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein has always been the pride of the Soviet cinema, but it was not until after perestroika, and especially after the collapse of Communism, that Russian theoreticians began to freely explore the national-psychological roots, cultural
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Sopyanje
Sopyanje is a stirring Korean style road movie that weaves emotive Korean folk music (Pansori) and pastoral landscapes with a powerful plea for Korean identity.
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Affliction
Affliction is a powerful account of domestic male violence and a man trapped within its vicious circle. Nick Nolte is the trapped man Wade Whitehouse, the town's part-time sheriff and all-around handyman, and son to Glen Whitehouse (sublimely played by James Coburn).
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