Articles by Robert Bell

Adore

Anne Fontaine

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2013

In pedigree, Adore (Anne Fontaine's adaptation of the Doris Lessing short story, The Grandmothers) is comprised of a plethora of feminine a...

Short Cuts Canada Programme 1

PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2013

Amidst the thematic backdrop of the first Short Cuts program screening at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, sexuality, identity...

Hi-Ho Mistahey!

Alanis Obomsawin

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

Similar to her 2012 documentary, The People of the Kattawapiskak River, which detailed the housing crisis of the Awattapiskak First Nation'...

The Invisible Woman

Ralph Fiennes

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

As outlined in Claire Tomalin's 1990 biography, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, the titular "woman," Ne...

Borgman

Alex van Warmerdam

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

Just as he did with previous efforts like Grimm and The Last Days of Emma Blank, Dutch raconteur Alex van Warmerdam throws a few darkly com...

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Frank Pavich

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

Frank Pavich's documentary on the widely speculated and discussed topic of Jodorowsky's planned version of Dune has a straightforward, line...

Le Démantèlement

Sébastien Pilote

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

Quietly and unassumingly, Le Démantèlement (Sébastien Pilote's modernist ersatz-take on King Lear) unfolds as a contemplative character pie...

Sarah Prefers to Run

Chloé Robichaud

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

With extreme formality, dividing up each shot of every aerobic sequence with equal runtime, vacillating between medium close-ups and close-...