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VIFF 2019 | The Oscar Season Gets Underway in Vancouver | Pt 2

September 7, 2019A & E, Cinema, Vancouver, VIFF 2019Raymond Tomlin

There are many reasons the 160,000 or so patrons attend the Vancouver International Film Festival each year.
First and foremost, there are the diehard festival attendees who, each year, live to see cinema from across the globe, obscure but heart-rending films of immense humanity from Niger, Lebanon, Malawi, Georgia, Ecuador, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Cape Verdi or Nigeria — all of which countries will have films screening at this year’s 38th annual Vancouver International Film Festival. Sometimes these films are sparsely attended, but they nonetheless represent not only the raison d’être of the festival, but its beating heart.
The second group of patrons represent the financial heart of the festival. These patrons are most interested in gaining early insight and entrée into the Oscar awards season, purchasing tickets for films VanRamblings is writing about this weekend (our first ‘Oscar Derby’ column was published yesterday). These patrons not only want to screen the Oscar worthy films months before they’ll be released to multiplexes, but also want to be acknowledged as having engaged in the cultural cachet that comes with being able to say to their friends, “Oh yes, we attended the film festival this year, as we do every year, and were blown away by (name of film).”

Patrons attending screenings of the Oscar worthy films do so at the 1800 seat Centre for the Performing Arts on Homer Street, just across the street from the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library. Twenty films times 1800 patrons times $15 equals a substantial amount of money contributing to the success and bottom line of the Vancouver International Film Festival. Needless to say, the VIFF administration is more than grateful to these patrons for their interest in the film festival, as are all festival devotees.

Today, VanRamblings will present five more Oscar worthy films that will screen at VIFF 2019 that are guaranteed both critical acclaim and the Oscar nominations they are so richly due, come 5am, Monday, January 13, 2020.

Representing the first film in a knockout, must-see double bill at The Centre on Saturday, September 28th, as part of the 38th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse took Cannes by storm (pun intended) at the Cannes Film Festival this past spring, winning the prestigious FIPRESCI International Film Critics Prize, and going on to win the Grand Special Prize at the French Deauville Film Festival.
The Guardian’s chief film critic, Peter Bradshaw, raves about The Lighthouse in his five-star review …

Robert Eggers’ gripping nightmare shows two lighthouse-keepers in 19th-century Maine going melancholy mad together: a toxic marriage, a dance of death. It is explosively scary and captivatingly beautiful in cinematographer Jarin Blaschke’s fierce monochrome, like a daguerreotype of fear. And the performances from Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson have a sledgehammer punch — Pattinson, in particular, just gets better and better.

What is so exhilarating and refreshing about The Lighthouse is that it declines to reveal whether or not it is a horror film as such, though an early reference to Salem, Massachusetts gives us a flashback to Eggers’ previous film, The Witch (2015).

It is not a question of a normal-realist set-up pivoting to supernatural scariness with reliably positioned jump-scares etc. The ostensible normality persists; perhaps something ghostly is going on, or perhaps this is a psychological thriller about delusion. But generic ambiguity is not the point: The Lighthouse keeps hold of us with the sheer muscular intelligence and even theatricality of the performances and the first-class writing. Even Sir Donald Wolfit or Robert Newton could not have got more out of the role of Tom than Willem Dafoe does and Pattinson is mesmeric in his bewilderment and uncertainty.

The Lighthouse screens at The Centre at 6pm, on day three of the festival, Saturday, September 28th, followed by the must-see screening of …

On Friday, September 6th, the first full day of the 44th annual Toronto International Film Festival director Destin Daniel Cretton’s true life civil rights drama, Just Mercy, catapulted itself into Oscar contention, placing Michael B. Jordan firmly into the Best Actor sweeps, and both Jamie Foxx and Rob Morgan into Best Supporting Actor contention.
Here’s what the critics had to say about Just Mercy …

Full-blooded performances from Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx add weight to the powerful fact-based Just Mercy, a retelling of one of influential lawyer and social justice and civil rights activist Bryan Stevenson’s most enraging cases, presented in a film that will shake you to your soul. It’s the late 1980s, and Stevenson (Jordan), a young Harvard-educated African-American lawyer in crisp gray suits and neckties, has come to stay in Monroe County, Alabama, to take on the cases of death-row inmates who are innocent.

Death row as a morbid extension of slavery is what Just Mercy is about. “You’re guilty from the moment you’re born,” says Walter McMillian (Foxx), clarifying the rage that percolates throughout the movie. “It’s just another excuse to lynch a black man,” one of his peers concludes.

A celebration of what it takes to eke out justice in a broken system, Just Mercy builds throughout to its gripping resolution, based on the certainty that hatred, in all its terrible power, will never be as powerful as justice.”

Just Mercy screens at The Centre at 9pm on Saturday, September 28th.

A searing exploration of the consequences of upholding one’s convictions in a time of terrifying upheaval, the latest work from Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life) mines the themes of spirituality and engagement with the natural world that have permeated so much of the American auteur’s late-period renaissance. Set in Austria during the rise of the Third Reich, A Hidden Life movingly relays this little-known true story of quiet heroism.
A Hidden Life screens at The Centre, 8:45pm, Sunday, September 29th.

The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-1800s, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states and Canada, reaching Canada by boat across Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, settling in Ontario and Nova Scotia, aided by abolitionists and others sympathetic to their cause.
Nova Scotia’s African American population was first settled by Black Loyalists during the American Revolution and then by Black Refugees in the War of 1812, with important black settlements developed across Canada, both in Québec and on Vancouver Island, where Governor James Douglas encouraged black immigration arising from his opposition to slavery.
Directed and co-written by Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou), Harriet relates the story of abolitionist icon Harriet Tubman (who, up until President Donald Trump intervened, was to bear her image on the $20 bill) who, following her escape from slavery in 1849, helped free hundreds of slaves from the American South, risking her life to lead others to freedom through the network of safehouses that came to be known as the Underground Railroad.
Lifting the heroic icon from the pages of history and into an epic, timeless tale, Harriet brings to the big screen the surge of faith, principle, and raw courage that drove diminutive Araminta Ross (who changed her name to Harriet Tubman) to greatness. The film’s star, Tony-winning Broadway actor Cynthia Erivo, was a discovery for many in Steve McQueen’s Widows. In Harriet, Erivo is riveting in every scene, giving her portrayal of Harriet Tubman the scale and depth appropriate to a legendary American leader.
Harriet screens once, at 3pm at The Centre, on Saturday, October 5th.

Taika Waititi directs a riotous cast — including Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Rebel Wilson, Thomasin McKenzie, and newcomer Roman Griffin Davis — in this daring, touching, and comedic satire about a young German boy who discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his home and consults with his imaginary best friend, Adolf Hitler (Waititi).
In a series of deft, groundbreaking comedies, Taika Waititi took sharp left turns into coming-of-age stories (Boy), vampire movies (What We Do in the Shadows), and sacred superheroes (Thor: Ragnarok). Now he brings his half-Maori, half-Jewish, fully skewed sensibilities to his most daring film yet. A dazzling takedown of fascist thinking and the violence it fuels, Jojo Rabbit begins in biting satire but delivers surprising emotional impact.
Jojo Rabbit screens at 6:15pm at The Centre, on Wednesday, October 2nd.

Click here for more VanRamblings coverage of the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival

Part 3 of VanRamblings’ Oscar Derby series will conclude on Sunday with an exploration of the potential and probable Best International Films Oscar nominees (it used to be called Best Foreign Film, but the Academy changed that designation to International earlier this year) that will screen this year at the 38th annual Vancouver International Film Festival.

VIFF 2019 | The Oscar Derby Begins Right Here in Vancouver | Pt 1

September 6, 2019A & E, Cinema, Vancouver, VIFF 2019Raymond Tomlin

At the Wednesday opening press conference, the Vancouver International Film Festival’s Associate Director of Programming, Curtis Woloschuk, announced the late addition of four Oscar-bound films that, although they didn’t make the printed Festival guide (which is available everywhere across Metro Vancouver today, and a mighty gorgeous work of art it is) will screen, nonetheless, at this year’s spectacular 38th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (the schedule, and film information, is now available online).
And, oh yes, VIFF 2019 ticket (and pack) sales are now available online.
Although VanRamblings has written about and previously presented trailers for the four late addition films, to save you the work of searching through the previous columns, here are the four Oscar-bound films just added to the 38th annual Vancouver International Film Festival’s film schedule.

Noah Baumbach’s new film, Marriage Story, wowed ’em at both the Venice and Telluride Film Festivals, and at this point is the odds on favourite to win Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay, among other probable Oscar wins, tracks the rapid tangling and gradual untangling of impetuosity, resentment, and abiding love between a married couple — played by Adam Driver and Scarlett Johannson — negotiating their divorce and the custody of their son. It’s as harrowing as it is hilarious as it is deeply moving. Marriage Story will screen at The Centre, 8:45pm, Thursday, October 10th.

Perhaps not the best reviewed film coming out of the Telluride Film Festival, writer-director-producer Edward Norton’s adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s best-selling novel, Motherless Brooklyn, transplants Lionel, the main character of the novel, from modern Brooklyn into an entirely new, richly woven neo-noir narrative: a multilayered conspiracy that expands to encompass the city’s ever-growing racial divide, set in 1950s New York.
Here’s what IndieWire’s chief film critic, Eric Kohn, has to say about Motherless Brooklyn in his review …

Visually, Motherless Brooklyn doesn’t pull many exciting tricks, but veteran cinematographer Dick Pope manages to give New York City the L.A. Confidential treatment with evocative grey tones and shadowy street corners that deepen the mysterious atmosphere at every turn.

Some of Lionel’s encounters with various gruff characters hold more interest than others, but the movie really comes alive once he connects with Laura (Gugu Mbatha-Raw, in a delicate turn), an activist fighting the city’s racist housing policies. As he follows her all the way up to Harlem, Lionel connects with an affable jazz musician (a terrifically assertive Michael K. Williams) and finds some measure of kinship in his quest for answers in a broken world. The movie’s finest moment finds Lionel unable to contain his stream of Tourette’s tics in the midst of a jazz performance that seems to commiserate with the stream-of-consciousness he struggles to control. It’s a cogent illustration of the movie’s most alluring trait — a character searching for meaning in a messy world, and lost in a sea of words at every turn.

Motherless Brooklyn screens at The Centre, 8:45pm, Monday, Sept. 30th.

While it’s true that Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Laundromat, will début on Netflix at some point in the fall season, do you really want to watch this big screen entertainment with the all star cast on your TV at home, no matter what kind of home theatre you have? No, I didn’t think so.
Bitterly funny and, at times, amusingly droll, The Laundromat emerged as a knock it out of the park favourite at the Venice Film Festival, a galvanizing, entertaining yet wistful Big Short style narrative about the 2016 Panama Papers scandal and how the wealthy elite across the globe are, daily, ripping us off and making our existences that much more challenging, through the use of tax havens, shell companies and money laundering (and, yes, as is becoming increasingly clear, Vancouver has a significant role to play), among other feats of dastardly financial derring do.
The Laundromat screens at 3pm at The Centre on Sunday, October 6th.

Clearly, Christian Bale and Matt Damon have Oscar nominations in the bag, in James Mangold’s propulsive new film, Ford v Ferrari, as fine an example of big Hollywood studio filmmaking as we’ve seen in many a year. The film crackles with dry humour throughout, an exhilarating re-telling of Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and Ken Miles’ (Christian Bale, in a transformative performance) years of racing cars at Daytona, Le Mans and on a makeshift LAX racetrack. Ford v Ferrari is about much more, though: it’s about friendship, the love of a father and his son, it’s about American ingenuity (although less than you’d expect) and, most unexpectedly, the evils of corporate marketing. Anyone who refers to it as the “perfect Dad movie” is simply not giving the filmmakers involved enough credit. You can detest auto racing and still be swept away with the events on screen.
Ford v Ferrari screens at The Playhouse as the VIFF 2019 closing film, on the last day of the festival, the screening at 6pm on Friday, October 11th.

Parts 2 & 3 of VanRamblings’ VIFF 2019 Oscar Derby coverage will be published on Saturday and Sunday, with insight (and trailers) as well as scheduling information on the films that are set to pick up a slew of critics’ awards this autumn season, and in January: Academy Award nominations.

Decision Canada | Politics | Final Pre-Election Week Wrap-Up

September 5, 2019Canada, Decision Canada 2019, PoliticsRaymond Tomlin

At some point over the course of the next nine days, Prime Minister Justin Pierre James Trudeau will attend at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, the home of Canada’s 29th Governor General, the Right Honourable Julie Payette, to recommend to the Crown that a federal election be called. In 2019, under Canadian law, the election period may be no less than 36 days, which gives the Prime Minister until Sunday, September 15th to “drop the writ”.

One week, or so, from the commencement of the 43rd Canadian general election, how are the five major political parties, and their leaders, faring as Canadians head into the five week long election period?
The Conservative Party

Six weeks out from the October 21st federal election, Andrew Scheer’s Conservative Party has emerged as the only Canadian federal political party to have nominated candidates in all of Canada’s provinces and territories which comprise the 338 ridings that constitute the Parliament of Canada.
The Conservative Party goes into the election with the largest fundraising total for any federal political party with $28 million in the coffers to run both the national and the riding-by-riding campaigns, outstripping their four rival Canadian political parties. If elections could be bought, Andrew Scheer would become Canada’s 24th Prime Minister.

Green Party Elizabeth May, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau march together in the 2019 Vancouver Pride Parade.

Sad to say for the Conservatives, though, the pre-election period has hardly been kind to either Andrew Scheer, or his struggling Conservative party. A couple of weeks back, Mr. Scheer found himself in hot water for failing to participate in any LGBTQ2+ Pride Parades across Canada — when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Green Party leader Elizabeth May and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh were front-and-centre walking arm and arm at the Vancouver Pride Parade — after which (in a series of challenging and ultimately failed press interviews), Mr. Scheer failed again to enunciate a position on LGBTQ2+ issues acknowledging that as Prime Minister he would represent all Canadians, not just right-of-centre Canadians.
On top of that, Conservative party leader Andrew Scheer found himself in hot water arising from the release of a 2004 Canadian Parliamentary video where he rose in the house to decry same sex marriage. And, finally, in the 14-day-old contretemps, Mr. Scheer failed to assure Canadians that he would forbid Conservative MPs from putting abortion on the political agenda in a Conservative Party led Canada — concerning, given that Conservative party members who are also “anti-abortion activists are planning to win 50 ridings for their cause in the upcoming federal election.”
This past week, in his bid to fear monger — a traditional right-of-centre political party tactic — Mr. Scheer sought to scare the bejeezus out of Canadians by suggesting the government of Justin Trudeau would allow infamous child-murderer Jon Venables’ move to Canada after being released from prison in England. Scheer’s post caused widespread controversy. To make matters worse for Andrew Scheer, the British Justice Ministry stated Britain has no intention sending Venables to Canada.
As further confirmation that Scheer’s post was categorically false, and was indeed ‘fake news,’ Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada also added that some people are “inadmissible” to the country under Canada’s immigration law, particularly if they have a criminal record or could pose a risk to Canada’s security. Meaning that even if Venables was headed towards Canada, he would probably struggle to get though immigration.
The Liberal Party

Meanwhile, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has gotten out of the way of the train wreck that has become the Conservative party 2019 bid for government, while making a record 5500 spending announcements this summer totaling $15+ billion, in ridings across Canada, ranging from transit and affordable housing to the environment and infrastructure, with the unstated caveat that all of the commitments made by his government would be cut were Andrew Scheer to become Canada’s next Prime Minister.
The New Democratic Party

Take a look at the graphic above. As of Thursday evening, September 5th, the federal New Democratic Party has nominated candidates in only 54% of ridings across Canada, with no nominated candidates in the provinces of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Furthermore, the NDP goes into the 2019 federal election with a $4.5 million debt from the 2015 election, and less than a quarter of the money raised by either the Conservative or Liberal parties with which to present their case to the Canadian people.
For the first time since the party was formed in 1961, the New Democratic Party will have no campaign plane to take the leader, and the press entourage, across the country, in order that campaigning might take place more readily in all provinces and territories across the country.
According to Éric Grenier’s CBC Canada Poll Tracker, an aggregation of all publicly available polling data, the New Democrats are at 9.4% support in the province of Québec. That places them in fifth place, behind the leading Liberals (32.8%), the Conservatives (23.5%), the Bloc Québécois (18.5%) and the Greens (11%). The very real prospect exists that the NDP may be wiped out in Québec, losing all 15 of the current seats held in the province.
(VanRamblings wouldn’t count out Ruth Ellen-Brosseau in the riding of Berthier-Maskinongé, a popular hard-working NDP member of Parliament.)
On Tuesday, New Brunswick’s Green Party announced the defection of 15 NDP candidates to the federal Green Party. Turns out, though, that eight of the so-called NDP dissidents knew nothing about their defection to the Greens, forcing federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May to backtrack, and restate the number of defections at only seven, while the other eight members of the New Brunswick NDP went on record stating they would remain loyal members of the NDP, and knew nothing about the decision to defect to the Greens. In a CBC interview, federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Green Party Leader Elizabeth May “has a lot to answer for.”

Meanwhile, British Columbia and much of southern Ontario remain NDP strongholds, with a popular John Horgan NDP government holding power in Victoria, and a strong presence with Andrea Horvath’s NDP, who elected 40 MPPs to the Ontario legislature in the 2018 provincial election.
In British Columbia, Vancouver East MP Jenny Kwan is a lock to hold onto her seat, as is the case with Don Davies in Vancouver Kingsway and Peter Julian in New Westminster-Burnaby. Jagmeet Singh, we predict, will hold on to his seat in Burnaby South. Svend Robinson looks to make a welcome comeback in Burnaby North-Seymour. Yvonne Hanson is running a first rate NDP environmental campaign in Vancouver Granville, as is the case with community activist Christina Gower in Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam — both novice candidates could very well win their respective ridings.

CBC’s At Issue panel podcast | Thursday, September 5 2019 | Upcoming election

The Green Party

Canadians most frequently score Green Party Leader Elizabeth May as the most ethical among her federal counterparts, according to a series of Nanos Research and other surveys conducted over the past 12 months. The Greens will have nominated candidates in all federal ridings by this time next week, and according to recent polling stand a good chance of gaining official party status (12 seats) in Parliament, post the October 21st election.
In the final week of the pre-election period, according to the latest polls, the federal Green Party could elect 5 members to Parliament representing ridings on Vancouver Island, a member or two in Ontario, as well as Québec, and a sturdy contingent of Green Party MPs in the Maritimes.
The fortunes of the Greens rely on the benevolent affability of Ms. May.
Should Ms. May acquit herself well at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Québec (just across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill) during the course of the October 7th federal leaders’ debate, she could very well consolidate support for the Green Party of Canada, and assure official status for the party in Parliament following the October 21st election.
Please find below an episode of The Herle Burly, one of the finest podcasts to come out of Canada, fascinating always, the interviews conducted and conversations led by longtime Liberal Party apparatchik David Herle. In the episode below, you’ll hear Mr. Herle’s recent, fascinating, wildly informative and revealing interview with Elizabeth May. Very much worth a listen.

People’s Party of Canada

Currently polling at 2.9% across Canada, Maxime Bernier and his band of racist, transphobic and xenophobic supporters don’t have a chance in hell of electing anyone to Parliament. Mr. Bernier will not be included in the leaders’ debates. The less said about this group of reprobates the better.

Decision Canada | Taking a Stand Against the New Barbarism

September 3, 2019Decision Canada 2019Raymond Tomlin

Modern barbarism is a malodorous umbrella concept.
Underneath the umbrella are a great many fetid phobias, isms and other behaviours: Islamophobia, homophobia, xenophobia, semi-fascism, scapegoating, stereotyping, bullying, libeling and an aggressive intolerance of everything & everyone who is not to the liking of the modern barbarian.
Over the past two decades we have witnessed the rise of nationalism across the globe, and the rise of anti-environmentalism, nativism, anti-globalization, protectionism, and opposition to immigration.
From the 1990s on, right-wing barbaric populist parties have established themselves in the legislatures of democracies across the globe, ranging from Australia, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Estonia to France, Germany, Romania and Sweden; entered coalition governments in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Finland, Greece, Italy, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovakia and Switzerland; and led governments in Japan, Brazil, Colombia, India, Turkey, Hungary and Poland.
The “radical right” in the U.S. is also closely linked to barbaric populism, with its roots in the modern Republican party, led today by Donald Trump.
Since the great recession of 2008, barbaric right-wing populist movements, such as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (formerly the National Front) in France, Matteo Salvini’s far right League party in Italy, Geert Wilders’ ultranationalist Party for Freedom and Thierry Baudet’s anti-immigrant Forum for Democracy party in the Netherlands, Frank Franz’s National Democratic Party (formerly Reich Party) in Germany, and Nigel Farage’s UK Independence (now Brexit) Party have only grown more vibrant in voter popularity and strength at the polls, in large measure arising from their avowed opposition to immigration from the Middle East and Africa.
In the U.S., Donald Trump’s political views can best be summarized as right-wing populist, nationalist, Islamophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and based on an aggressive intolerance of anyone or anything not to his liking.

In Canada, we have three left-of-centre, progressive parties from which to choose in the upcoming October 21st federal election: Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats, Elizabeth May’s Greens and Justin Trudeau’s Liberals.

On the right side of the spectrum we have the neo-barbaric, Andrew Scheer led, Trump-embracing Conservatives, and Maxime Bernier’s far right-of-centre, anti-immigrant, climate-change denying, nationalist People’s Party.
Whether we look south to the Trump admininistration or the far right administration of Jair Balsonaro in Brazil, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, or Japan’s Shinzo Abe, Heinz-Christian Strache’s Austrian Freedom Party, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, or Polish Congressional leader Michal Marusik, every day we live with the reality of the new barbarism of our modern age, a political philosophy reliant on nativism, the promotion of division and fear of the other, barbarism as adhered to by the cheering and jeering hate-filled, reactionary and revolting masses of the unthinking, undereducated and disenfranchised we see in rallies across the globe, best referred to by their correct name: the modern barbarians.
What’s on the line in this year’s upcoming federal election?
If we vote for one of the right wing parties in Canada (not to put too fine a point on the matter): chaos, catastrophe, ultra-right wing nationalism, the decimation of social and economic norms and programmes in order that the interests of a wealthy elite might be best served, an attack on culture, a war against our most vulnerable citizens, political decay and ultimate disintegration, rage, alienation, anomie, the propagation of extremism, demagoguery, a crisis in leadership, and the atomization of our society.
Hyperbole, you say?
Don’t think it can’t happen here. Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives are not the Progressive Conservatives of Robert Stanfield, Pat Carney, Dalton Camp, Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, Hugh Segal or, even, Brian Mulroney. The modern Conservative party (a contradiction in terms) realized by Stephen Harper is a disingenuous, far right nativist party (there are exceptions in caucus, Red Tory MPs such as Lisa Raitt, Michael Chong and Michelle Rempel), undeserving of your vote — lest you would wish to have the Trumpian nightmare than has much of the U.S. in its grip visited upon Canada.
Again, just look south, to the United States or Brazil, or to the other side of the Earth, to the European countries written about above. There exists a thin line between order and chaos. As in every election, much is on the line.
In 2019, the stakes are high. Choose which side you’re on.