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Jan 9, 2025 | 
yoursourceone.com | Michael Hayward
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
chronicleonline.com | Michael Hayward
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
geist.com | Michael Hayward
Blink is a documentary film from National Geographic, which follows the Pelletier family from Montreal, who learn that three of their four children have retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition causing gradual loss of vision and probable blindness.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
geist.com | Michael Hayward
Stories about subterranean mysteries have fascinated me since I was small, beginning with Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth (not forgetting the cheesy film version from 1959, with James Mason and—yes!—Pat Boone), and the Pellucidar novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, with their fabulously garish covers depicting the winged, fanged, and taloned creatures to be found “down there.” Robert Macfarlane’s Underland (Hamish Hamilton) rekindles that half-forgotten fascination, with...
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
geist.com | Michael Hayward
Hakki is the first feature film from Hikmet Kerem Özcan, a young Turkish director from Izmir, Turkey. The film is set in Bergama, an historic town located near the Aegean coast, with “a wealth of ancient ruins [which] attract considerable tourist interest today” [Wikipedia]. Hakki, the protagonist, is a slightly worn-looking man who makes a modest living selling souvenirs and offering guiding services outside one of Bergama’s many ancient sites.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
geist.com | Michael Hayward
It’s a bit early in the festivities to be certain, but I feel fairly confident in predicting that Min Bahadur Bham’s film Shambhala will be one of my top picks from VIFF 2024.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
geist.com | Michael Hayward
VIFF 2024 begins on September 26th with over 350 screenings of films from around the world. One of the films on offer in the 2024 lineup is Souleymane’s Story, from French director Boris Lojkine. The Souleymane of the title, played by the 23-year-old non-professional actor Abou Sangare, is an asylum seeker from Guinea in western Africa, who is living in Paris, France, while awaiting an interview with French immigration authorities, part of his application for asylum.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
geist.com | Michael Hayward
If you care about the proper use of semicolons, then you should definitely see Turn Every Page (Sony), the 2022 documentary about the two Roberts: Robert Caro (author of an acclaimed four-going-on-five-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson), and his editor of fifty-plus years, Robert Gottlieb (“the most important editor of the post-war period” according to some).
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
geist.com | Michael Hayward
On the hiking trails that thread through the upper reaches of Vancouver’s North Shore mountains, you will sometimes stumble on the decaying traces left by the industrial activities of an earlier era: remnants of an old cedar skid road, the planks like weathered corduroy; rusted pieces from an old camp stove, long abandoned. Land now zoned for our recreation was once busy with logging camps and mine sites.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
geist.com | D.J. Taylor |Daniel Francis |Lewis Hyde |Michael Hayward
In Geist 125FEATURES“Lady with the Big Head Chronicle” by Angélique Lalonde“Dear Nani” by Zinnia Naqvi“Knot After Knot of Tomorrow” by Jane Shi“Looking for a Place to Happen” by Minelle MahtaniNOTES & DISPATCHES“TheTrap Door” by Eimear Laffan“True at First Flight” by J.R. Patterson“Elizabeth Smart’s Rockcliffe Park” by rob mclennan“Drinking Games with Ghosts” by Jade WallaceFINDINGS“Cart of Misplaced Tomes” by Brooke Lockyer“Rollovers” by Matthew Gwathmey“Bookish” by Amanda Etches“Gramps vs.
