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Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "RiverBlue"
A look at the damaging environmental effects on the rivers of the world, caused by the textile and tanning industries, with "fast fashion" and blue jeans the primary culprits.
Michael Hayward
Review: "Paths of the Soul"
A group of Tibetans villagers leave their village to make a 1200 km "bowing pilgrimage" to Lhasa, continuing a further 1000 km to the "holy mountain" of Kailash, laying their bodies flat on the ground every few steps.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: Portrait of a Garden
A year of pruning, planting, watering and harvesting in a Dutch estate kitchen garden.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: Harold and Lillian, A Hollywood Love Story
Colourful look behind the scenes in this tale of an artist and a researcher.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: Weirdos
A low-key new story from Bruce McDonald—teen friends find themselves on a trip from Antigonish to Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "The Last Family"
A fascinating take on the biopic genre, presenting the life—idiosyncratic, oddly charming, and ultimately tragic—of Polish surrealist painter Zdzisław Beksiński, between 1977 and 2005.
Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "Maliglutit (Searchers)"
A harrowing story of brutality, kidnapping and revenge from the director of "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner", shot entirely in the Artic and in the Inuktitut language.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: Kedi
Tales of the cats of Istanbul
Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "The Death of Louis XIV"
Doctors and courtiers hover anxiously in the wings as the Sun King, Louis XIV, suffers through the final stages of gangrene.
Michael Hayward
Review: “Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“Awake” is a documentary about the Hindu yogi and guru, author of the classic “Autobiography of a Yogi”—reportedly the only book Steve Jobs had on his iPad.
Steven Heighton Wins Governor General's Award
Geist contributor Steven Heighton has won the 2016 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry!
Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "I Called Him Morgan"
Bebop jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan had been resurrected: back from his heroin addiction and playing as good as ever. Until one snowy, fatal night in New York City, 1972.
Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "Weirdos"
It's July of 1976, and 15-year-old Kit is running away from the small Cape Breton town of Antigonish, heading for the big city: Sydney, NS, where his glamorous, artistic mother lives.
Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "Personal Shopper"
Kristen Stewart stars in a new film from French director Olivier Assayas, in a story that genetically recombines elements of both the thriller and horror genres.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: American Honey
A group of misfits are on the road, trying to make a buck, in this portrait of America which is as dystopic as any sci-fi novel.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: Gimme Danger
The story of the Stooges, one of rock's great bands.
Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "The Trap (Ottaal)"
Kuttappayi, an orphan, lives a life of rural poverty with his grandfather in Kuttanad, south India. When his grandfather falls ill, his future must be decided.
Kris Rothstein
PuSh Festival 2017: It is happening
What makes Vancouver's PuSh performing arts festival so cool? Thoughts on this year and years past.
Michael Hayward
VIFF 2016: "Paterson"
A sweet, eccentric, and nearly perfect film about poetry, English bulldogs, Ohio Blue Tip Matches, and Paterson, New Jersey.
Kris Rothstein
JFL NorthWest: Comedy Fest 2017
Joke and story time in Vancouver.
Kris Rothstein
PuSh 2017: Zappa Meets Varèse & Oswald
Three twentieth century composers who add a twist and some kick to their sound and mode.
Kris Rothstein
PuSh 2017: Backstage in Biscuit Land
Comedy, puppetry, song and Tourettes.
Kris Rothstein
PuSh 2017: Things a Person is Supposed to Wonder
Surreal. Bizarre. A woman in a shiny pink track suit makes life more difficult while wondering why it is hard.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2016: Short Stay
An understated and unassuming first feature film, which feels almost revolutionary in its combination of well-grounded sense of place and perplexing hero.
Kris Rothstein
Summer road trips, books and cider
It's time to go listen to music in a field, watch an eclipse or seek out strange alcoholic beverages.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2017: 24 Frames
Still photographs are animated into imagined lives by Iranian legend Abbas Kiaromstami.
Kris Rothstein
VIFF 2017: Forest Movie
A Vancouver film about experience, atmosphere and letting your mind wander.