Spring 2007
32 pages half-legal
DISCOVERIES
This issue is a mini-favourite. Simply titled “Discoveries”, ESR yearns to bring back the thrill of discovery, with a wide-eyed “look what I found”, to an information-overloaded public.
As always, the selection of films pertains to those of an independent and unique nature, whether they are genre films, documentaries or experimental. But these pieces are gathered based on simple criteria: they are indicative of many quality films that too easily get pushed aside due to media swaying its attention to something bigger (and not necessarily better); they bring back the joy of discovering something new and different; and in some cases, they speak to the viewer on a deeply personal level.
Reviews and Articles
Alexandra Cassavetes’ Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
The “Rosebud of the Rails” in Who is Bozo Texino? (2006)
The quirky, upsetting and haunting documentary Citizen Shane (2004).
Aki Kaurismaki’s Juha (1999).
The Super-8 films of John Porter.
Flyerman and other films by Jeff Stephenson.
Russ Forster’s documentaries, So Wrong They’re Right (1995) and Tributary (2002).
Steve James’ documentary Reel Paradise (2005), on opening a movie theater in Fiji.
James Benning before and behind the camera: James Benning: Circling the Image (2003), and 13 Lakes (2004)
Kubasa in a Glass (2006): Winnipeg local programming run amuck.
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