Sean and Evan discuss some of the films they saw at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, including Christian Petzold’s Transit, a variety of Moody Asian Noirs (Manta Ray, Lush Reeds, A Land Imagined), Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Ulrich Köhler’s In My Room, Derek Chiu’s No. 1 Chung Ying Street and Jodie Mack’s The Grand Bizarre.
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As anyone who listens to the Frances Farmer Show knows, I’m not generally a fan of Contemporary European Cinema. But despite that, at VIFF this year I found myself at a screening of Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War, the follow-up to his Oscar-winning Ada. Much to my surprise, I loved it. It’s a sweeping romantic epic about a singer and a pianist set against the backdrop of the eponymous Cold War and told with astonishing speed an narrative drive. Three hours worth of Dr. Zhivago in less than 90 minutes. It reminded me of both A Star is Born and Visconti’s White Nights. It’s playing Friday only on the opening night of SIFF’s annual Polish Film Festival (though it will surely have a wider release later this year or early next. The only other film I’ve seen from this year’s festival plays on Saturday, Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 post-war/post-apocalypse masterpiece Ashes and Diamonds.
Seattle Screen Scene 