Andrew Long

Pedro Almodóvar's latest, The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito) is not for the squeamish.  Adapted from Thierry Jonquet's novel, Tarantula, Almodóvar steps delicately back and forth between tones of medical melodrama and twisted thriller - the cumulative effect...

Back in September we reviewed Ryan Redford's excellent debut feature, Oliver Sherman.  Having since picked up a few awards, including a nod from the ever-adventurous Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, the film will open in Toronto on February 4,...

"In Louisiana, life means life."  At the infamous Angola Prison Farm - once the most feared prison in America - a life sentence also meant a miserable existence and certain death: death within walls you will never leave; violent...

More than a decade after filming the final reunion tour of legendary (and fictional) Canadian punk band Hard Core Logo, filmmaker Bruce McDonald (again played with remarkable authenticity by... Bruce McDonald) remains disturbed by the swift and ugly death...

Zhu Wen's third feature as a director is somewhat accurately described as a Taoist action comedy documentary, rooted in the verse "Once, Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly.  Suddenly he woke up, solid and unmistakably Zhuangzi.  But he did not...

Nine in the morning on a Saturday, and I'm sitting in the Vancouver International Film Festival's Vancity Theatre listening to Telefilm Canada staff describe the ins and outs of their funding application criteria.  Exciting stuff, yes?  It must be, because...

It's difficult to write about Bruce McDonald's latest film, if only because I feel like I'm examining someone else's very personal correspondence. Co-star Tracy Wright, a truly bright light of Canadian theatre, television, and film, died this summer of...

Toronto is awash in talent for this year's installment of TIFF - Bill Murray hanging out by the Diet Coke sample stand, Bruce Springsteen interviewed by Ed Norton, and of course Ryan Redford.  Did I mean Robert Redford? Well,...