Monthly Archives: July 2011

Damn cellphones!

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

A few weeks ago in a post about things I dislike in movies, I mentioned the death of narrative at the hands of modern communications technologies. I just came across this July 28 column by Joe Queenan in the Guardian … Continue reading →

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Quality control

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

Rapidly developing video technologies are altering not just our expectations but also our responses to the experience of watching movies. Blu-ray, hi-def TVs, the digital technologies which are used more and more in production – all have helped to create … Continue reading →

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Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

As a longtime admirer and fan of Terence Malick’s work, I’ve been hesitant to write about The Tree of Life because it’s the first of his films that I haven’t loved at first sight. There are many things I liked … Continue reading →

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Googie Withers (1917-2011)

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

Sad news this weekend. The inimitable Googie Withers has died at the age of 94 after a long and varied career in film, theatre and television. Although she worked with directors like Alfred Hitchcock (a small part in The Lady … Continue reading →

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My movie map of Winnipeg — part two

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

Continuing my personal tour of Winnipeg’s vanishing downtown movie theatres … In the late ’70s, the city got its first multiplex. In the downtown Eaton Place mall, just across Graham Avenue from the Eaton’s department store, seven very small screening … Continue reading →

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My movie map of Winnipeg — part one

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

When I first arrived in Winnipeg back in 1973, I took a room in a boarding house in the Wolseley area, within walking distance of downtown. I quickly formed a mental map of the city which was anchored by two … Continue reading →

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DVD Review: The Making of the President: The 1960s

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

In the 1960s several factors came together to change the way American politics was both played and perceived, and the journalist Theodore H. White played an important role in the second part of that equation. With his Pulitzer Prize-winning book … Continue reading →

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Five things that annoy me in movies …

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Kenneth George Godwin

While watching Charles B. Griffith’s Eat My Dust! the other day, I found myself getting annoyed. Not by the sheer silliness of the film — a small-town sheriff’s son (a very young Ron Howard) steals a hot-rod to impress a … Continue reading →

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