An evening with Craig Baldwin

I had an interesting evening last Friday, thanks to Dave Barber at the Cinematheque. Dave and his co-workers at the WFG brought Craig Baldwin in from San Francisco for a weekend workshop on found-footage filmmaking. I didn’t have time for the workshop itself, but did make it to the Friday night screening of Tribulation 99 […]

The Genius of Matthew Rankin

Given that this week filmmaker Matthew Rankin is back at Sundance with a short film for the second time in three years, he would probably be annoyed if I mention that I first encountered him as an odd, ferociously precocious 14-year-old, when he walked into the offices of the Winnipeg Film Group intent on signing […]

Blasts from the past

Criterion Blu-ray review: Vengeance is Mine (1979)

Found-footage addendum

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day:
Criterion Blu-ray review

Criterion Blu-ray review:
Ermanno Olmi’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

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