FASHION Magazine
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Get some reel love at these coast-to-coast film fests
Wong Kar-Wai's In The Mood For Love plays January 29 and February 10 at Cinematheque Ontario. Photo by USA Films/Photofest No more nights at the multiplex. This month, feel the art and soul of movies with a coast-to-coast host of film festivities:
- Victoria Film Festival has bee showcasing indie cinema for 15 years; it’s a chiller, cozier alternative to the Hollywood North-ness of the Vancouver film fest. (January 29 to February 7, victoriafilmfestival.com)
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The French New Wave spends July at Cinematheque Ontario
Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless When Stuart Murdoch, the sad singing Scotsman best known for fronting Belle and Sebastian, met his wife, he left her Breathless.
Says the New York Times Magazine: “As a courtship present, Murdoch made her a replica of the New York Herald Tribune T-shirt Seberg wore in the opening shot of Breathless.”
Cute, right? But then: “‘I may have also done that for an earlier girlfriend,’ Murdoch admitted sheepishly.”
Ah yes. How appropriate. Like Murdoch’s women, all fashionable lovers of French New Wave know the delight of discovering a genre made exactly, exquisitely, for them—the super-chic haircuts, the striped shirts and plaid minis, the smoky-eyed (and forever smoking) gamines—only to realize they’re just the latest suckers for the lovely clichés of Parisian art-house cinema.
But don’t let that stop you from falling: this summer, the Cinematheque at the AGO is screening gorgeous pics by Godard and his precocious coterie of peers.