Posts Tagged ‘#Festival’

January 19, 2012 2

KO Film Review of Miss Representation

By KatrinaOlson in Film Review, Uncategorized

Miss Representation (2011, USA) is a documentary film about how the American Media misrepresents women. The screening tonight was hosted by the Calgary Sexual Health Centre, and had a spectacular audience turn out. The screening SOLD OUT and had a wait list, in the Globe Cinema downtown Calgary, on a -30*C Wednesday night. (Shocking) The [...]

Tags: #Festival, Calgary, Dawn Johnston, Feminism, film, GlobeCinema, MissRepresentation, Oprah, OWN, Review, Sarah Ivany, Shelley Youngblut, Sundance, yyc

December 20, 2011 1

KO Film Review of The Artist

By KatrinaOlson in Film Review, Uncategorized

If you blended Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925), Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933), some Busby Berkeley choreography, The Hollywood Review of 1929 (Charles Reisner), the class and sophistication of Casablanca, Citizen Kane (Orson Wells, 1941), and Celebrity (Woody Allen, 1998) you would most definitely end up with The Artist (Michael Hazanavicus, 2011). I feel [...]

Tags: #Festival, Bernice Bejo, Black and White, Cannes, film, Jean Dujardin, Silent film, Talkies, The Artist

September 23, 2011 0

KO Film Review- CIFF Opening Gala: Donovan’s Echo

By KatrinaOlson in Film Review, Restaurants

Last night was the opening Gala of the Calgary International Film Festival at the Globe Cinema. The Festival Opened with Donovan’s Echo (Jim Cliffe, 2011). The film is about a man named Donovan (Danny Glover) that has deja vu or premonitions from his past that echo in the future. He moves back to a town [...]

Tags: #BruceGreenwood, #CalgaryInternationFilmFestival, #ChelahHorsdal, #CIFF, #cinema, #DannyGlover, #Donovan'sEcho, #Festival, #Globe, #Inception, #JimCliffe, Calgary, film, Hollywood, yyc