Category: Country: Canada
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The Lighthouse. Dir. Robert Eggers. A24. 2019.
“π©πππ πβπππππ πππ πππππ ππ. π°π βπππ πππ πππππ ππ πππππππ ππππ πππ πππππ πππππ.” The Lighthouse is a film about madness and evil. The film uses the arrival and death of a seagull, at the hands of Thomas, to explore the threshold between sanity and madness, and our capacity for evil. Thomasβ sanity is questioned…
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The Watchmen. Dir. Zach Snyder. Warner Bros. 2009.
What can dogs tell us about criminality? With regards to Zach Snyderβs Watchmen, the answer is βquite a lot.β Dogs are used within the film to align the binaries of legality and criminality with humanity and animality. There is a particular focus on the possibilities of transgression, as both the anti-hero and the villain commit…
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Touching Wild Horses. Dir. Eleanore Lindo. Chesler / Perlmutter Productions. 2002.
Image 1: DVD Cover Image Eleanore Lindoβs 2002 film, Touching Wild Horses, tells the story of a young boy named Mark (Mark Rendall), who is sent to live with his aunt Fiona (Jane Seymour) after a tragic car accident kills Markβs father and sister and puts his mother in a coma. On Sable Island, both characters…
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Life Doesn’t Frighten Me. Dir. Stephen Dunn. LDFM Films. 2012.
Stephen Dunnβs 2012 Canadian short film, Life Doesnβt Frighten Me, presents viewers with a campy peek into the life of thirteen-year old Esther as she embarks upon her journey into womanhood. Taking place over the course of her thirteenth birthday, the film primarily revolves around Estherβs apprehensive feelings towards her imperfect appearance and her newly…
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The Whale. Dir. Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit. Kinosmith & Paladin. 2011.
The 2011 documentary The Whale confronts the moral and ethical struggle within intense human-animal interactions. While the film can be perceived as a cautionary tale about human interference in nature, there is no political statement being made to sway the audience. The leading affect within the film is sentimentality. Luna, the 2-year-old orca, is forced…
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Touching Wild Horses. Dir. Eleanore Lindo. Chesler/Perlmutter Productions. 2002.
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Tom at the Farm. Dir. Xavier Dolan. MK2. 2013.
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The Whale. Dir. Suzanne Chisholm & Michael Parfit. Kinosmith & Paladin. 2011.
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The Fly. Dir. David Cronenberg. 20th Century Fox. 1986.