Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Vers le sud

  Laurent Cantet

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  After so many smug liberal consciousness-raisers like In My Country and The Beautiful Country, Vers le sud is a refreshing blast of tropica...

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  The Squid and the Whale

  Noah Baumbach

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  The stereotypical "film for adults" is usually a Woody Allen knockoff involving genteel surroundings and intellectual name-dropping, which...

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  Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company

  Allan King

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  I once saw a film about an old age home at the Hot Docs festival; it was careful, adhered to facts and figures, was extremely thorough and...

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  L'Enfant

  Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  The Belgian sibling duo of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne triumph in what may be their finest film to date. The title ostensibly refers to a...

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  Entre la Mer et L'eau Douce

  Michel Brault

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  This 1968 effort was billed as the Quebecois Goin' Down the Road and caused quite a stir upon its original release. Alas, the distance of t...

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  The Wayward Cloud

  Tsai Ming-Liang

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Not even Ken Russell went so far as to stage a musical number with a man dressed as a penis, but Tsai Ming-Liang is a man without shame, he...

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  Paradise Now

  Hany Abu-Assad

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Said and Khaled are two Palestinian mechanics who've been friends since childhood; they're also committed to the resistance, meaning they g...

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  Lie With Me

  Clement Virgo

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  We all know that Canadians can't have fun without having a learning experience at the same time. So it comes to pass that this sexed-up ext...