ISSN 1712-9559
Keyword : Comedy
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A review of the Severin Films DVD release of Screwballs, which they refer to as the "Citizen Kane of high school sex comedy!"
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Relying on secondary sources and an in-depth formal analysis, author Richard Wallace takes a plunge into defining the ineffable: the Lubitsch Touch.
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A close textual analysis of Elie Suleiman’s Chronicle of a Disappearance which demonstrates how the director's understanding of form informs the complex political landscape of the everyday Palestinian experience.
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An in-depth analysis of David Lynch's animated series Dumbland that convincingly argues for its likeness to Dadiast art and Absurdist drama.
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Review essay of Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World which concentrates on issues of National and cultural identity.
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A review essay of Maddin's most recent docu-short on Roberto Rossellini.
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A comparative analysis of social/political meaning in Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant and Busby Berkeley and Mervyn Le Roy's Golddiggers of 1933.
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A cultural analysis of the Canadian comic phenomena of the Trailer Park Boys.
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A report on the 29th International Hong Kong Film festival.
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An interview with director Tomoko Matsunashi on her film The Way of the Director.
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A look back at the underappreciated films of Bill Forsyth, with an emphasis on Comfort and Joy.
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The evolution of Québécois popular hero IXE-13 from serial novel to film.
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A narratological comparison between the epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses and its most recent filmic adaptation, Cruel Intentions.
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Woody Allen, Melinda and Melinda, Eros, Wong Kar-wai, Michelangelo Antonioni, Crash
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An analysis of the film's engagement with philosophical discourse in a comedic mode.
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On the occasion of Fuon (The Crying Wind, Japan, 2004, 106 mins.) showing in competition at the 2004 Festival des Films du Monde (World Film Festival), in Montreal, the director of the film, Higashi Yoichi, along with principal actor, Uema Muneo, and Yamagami Tetsujiro, the film’s producer were interviewed by Peter Rist for Offscreen.
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Perhaps still an appendice to the mega-Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, the new programming crew are out to make a mark.
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A focus on the documentaries and shorts, with a special attention given to How's Your News?
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An interview with long time Cinefester and film historian Leonard Maltin.
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