Category: Movies at the Riv
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Today, I went to the Cinema Society screening of Frankenstein (2025), followed by a Q&A with director Guillermo del Toro and actor Jacob Elordi, who plays The Creature. It was an insanely cool experience. Roger Durling began the screening with a statement of “Welcome to church!” It certainly felt like it, with a packed crowd…
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Living legend Guillermo del Toro creates another magnificent monster flick that is sure to satisfy longtime fans and casual moviegoers alike. Guillermo del Toro, you magnificent motherfucker. I’m trying to come at this from a measured approach, but I’m finding it so hard to. This film is a prime example of how to adapt a…
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As part of Roger Durling’s Vital Cinema series at the SBIFF Riviera Theater, the 4K restoration displays all of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva (1982) in its postpunk glory, even if the cinema du look is in some ways a product of its time. Diva (1982) begins place at an opera house. In the heart of Paris,…
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This story of folk songs and fateful queer romance is both a tearjerker and a clumsily structured narrative. 2025 has been a year full of cinema that has touched on music as a force of community and identity. In Sinners (2025), blues became a symbol of shared pain during the Jim Crow era that connected…
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