Timothy Penner
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Ripped off
Filmmaker Brett Gaylor’s favourite “artist” is Girl Talk. Girl Talk doesn’t play an instrument and he doesn’t sing or rap.
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Is Examined Life worth watching?
When Socrates said that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” he spurred on centuries of philosophical studies – studies that some say have become far too academic.
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The search for a way home
“We love the place we hate, then hate the place we love. We leave the place we love then spend a lifetime trying to regain it.” With this invocation director Terence Davies begins Of Time and the City, his poetic, semi-biographical journey through the annals of Liverpool history.
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Five films you never would have thought were so political
Movies like Semi-Pro and Knocked Up may seem like innocent comedies, but there’s more going on than you’d expect.
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The opposite of what’s expected
The French New Wave was an undeniably important era in the history of filmmaking. Its influence can still be felt in the works of Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson or pretty much any other director who’s ever used a jump cut.
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Documentary about Canadian institutional survivors sure to impact viewers
In 1967, a documentary concerning the patients of a state hospital for the criminally insane in Massachusetts and the inhuman treatment they received, entitled Titicut Follies, was banned in the United States. The film had a major impact on Milos Forman’s Oscar winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Both these films have stood as shameful reminders of how society has dealt with those with mental and intellectual disabilities in the past.