Essays

Comfort and Joy: the anatomy of melancholy

A look back at the underappreciated films of Bill Forsyth, with an emphasis on Comfort and Joy.

Psychoanalysis in Bringing up Baby and Vertigo

Psychoanalytical reading of Hawks' Bringing up Baby and Hitchcock's Vertigo

Central Station and Cinema Nôvo

Walter Salles, Cinema Novo, Central Station, brazilian cinema

Central do Brasil (Central Station):

A critical account of Salles' Central Station

Le Confessional 10 Years Later: A Québec Classic Revisited

An in-depth essay on the 10th anniversary of Robert Lepage's impressive debut feature Le Confessional

Double O-Canada: Decoding IXE-13 from Page to Screen

The evolution of Québécois popular hero IXE-13 from serial novel to film.

Tsai Ming-liang Retrospective

A report on La Cinémathèque's major retrospective of the works of Malaysian-born Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang.

Human Conflict, or the legacies of superfluous men

Each of us is human and has value, but we are not equally valuable—our resources (knowledge, skills, talents, and monies), and relationships to others, determine the extent of our value. Sometimes we feel inferior because we are. The work of people such as Plato and Shakespeare is not important because they are Greek or English but because of how they illuminate the human condition, an illumination not limited by language, national borders, or time.

Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation?

Re-evaluation of Sontag's seminal essay “Against Interpretation”.

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David Owen Russell’s I ♥ Huckabees

An analysis of the film's engagement with philosophical discourse in a comedic mode.

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Heroism Canadian Style

“Twist” makes an interesting companion piece to another recent Canadian film by director Tim Southam, “The Bay of Love and Sorrow” (2002). Unlike Tierney, for whom “Twist” represents his first feature film, Southam comes to “The Bay” with a more varied and experienced background.

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