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Mind Game (2004) – written and directed by Masaaki Yuasa, based on the comic...
By Margaux Williamson (I watched this animated movie at home with my boyfriend. We were going to go to the movies, but decided to stay home and watch a DVD and make popcorn. I didn’t know anything...
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Busby Madoff Dreams: “Fuck You” and the Gold Diggers of 2010
by Carl Wilson When I was in grade school, my parents were involved in a variety show at some grownup social club, group-singing the 1940s cocktail-party number “Shaving Cream”, which had recently been...
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Donny Darko (2001) & Southland Tales (2007) – both written and directed by...
By Margaux Williamson (My friend Ryan Kamstra, a poet and a musician, recently asked me if I could articulate why “Donny Darko” worked as a movie when “Southland Tales” didn’t. They are both poetic,...
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Defenestration the Movie, by Everything Is Terrible (2010)
by Carl Wilson Action-movie trailers slam together a film’s most explosive eruptions of sound and vision to promise that the actual blockbuster will deliver an escalating sequence of adrenaline jolts...
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Black Swan (2010) – conceived and directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by...
by Margaux Williamson (I saw this movie with my friend Ryan Kamstra. I wasn’t sure if I would like the movie, but I thought I might like it better if I saw it with Ryan. We have a pretty easy time...
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Rescue Dawn (2007) – directed by Werner Herzog, based on the life of Dieter...
by Margaux Williamson (I saw this while in a hut on the coast of Mexico. For dinner, I had split a can of beans with my boyfriend while we looked through the movies I always bring with me when I...
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Vagabond (1985) – written and directed by Agnès Varda
by Margaux Williamson (My friend Amy Lam asked if I wanted to go see this at the Bell Lightbox in Toronto. I had seen it before, but only once on my television. We ran into our friend Jon Davies in the...
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Pine Point: An Interactive Documentary by Mike Simons
by Carl Wilson The furthest north I’ve ever been was in Grade 10, when I played second trumpet in the high-school band and we went on an exchange to Pine Point in the Northwest Territories. The...
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Scud Mountain Boys at Lee’s Palace in Toronto, Sat. Feb. 25, 2012
by Carl Wilson Memory, as everybody knows, is an odd, perverse thing. When I first saw the reunited Scud Mountain Boys’ stage setup at Lee’s Palace last weekend, I said, “Oh, that’s funny, it’s just...
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Bully: A Film By Lee Hirsch (2011)
by Carl Wilson I didn’t want to see Bully at first. Immediately when I read about it in the paper, I felt that I could see the whole documentary unspooling in my head, with scenes of micro-brutality...
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