Posts tagged: One Week

DVD Releases for the Week of Jun. 16, 2009

Criterion Collection, distributors of high-quality remasters, are  re-releasing Ingmar Bergman’s classic The Seventh Seal in a new edition. Set during the Middle Ages, it tells the story of towns beset by the Black Plague, and a knight who encounters Death in person. Of course, the overlying story is only a basis for more thematic ideas. This classic comes out at the same time as Bergman Island, a feature-length interview with the legendary Swedish director. Read more »

categories DVD Previews | datetime June 15, 2009 | Comments Off

Banal Canadiana by the roadside

Review: One Week (2008)
The first big English-language Canadian film of this year showed a lot of promise. It is a film that on the outside has a lot of heart, and in the right place. The goal was to create a movie Canadians could use to show off this country abroad. Unfortunately, it really doesn’t say anything about Canadians, shows off a little bit of the country’s landscape between Toronto and Vancouver (sorry East Coasters, Québec and northerners), and does so by taking away from the story. Read more »

categories Film Reviews | datetime May 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »

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