Film

Ten queer films you should watch this Pride month

Led by immensely heartbreaking and nuanced performances, this melodrama is easily one of the most gorgeous, haunting, and layered portraits of queer loneliness and yearning on screen.

UVic philosophy grad shooting documentary on men’s soccer team

That identity crisis, realizing how precarious an athlete’s sense of self can be, is at the core of the documentary. Many of the athletes in the film may be uncertain…

UVic student featured in Sitting Bull documentary

"I was taught that acting is ‘living truthfully under imaginary circumstances,'" said fourth-year Indigenous Studies student Nakoda Ward.

Films about music triumphed at the Victoria Film Festival

The festival showed more than 90 films across genres in the span of just over a week. Eleven standout films this year could be classified as music films, or films…

Landmark environmental ruling in Peru aided by Canadian-Peruvian documentary, UVic law faculty

Despite the positive ruling, the fight for the Marañón is not over. Now, Canaquiri and her organization are asking the Peruvian government to actually implement the court’s ruling. Boyd said…

Take a sneak peek at the lineup for February’s Victoria Film Festival

The Festival also has options for cheap tickets. They offer student rush tickets, which are six dollars for ages 19 – 30 with student ID. They can only be purchased…

‘Nosferatu’ is a visceral gothic triumph

If anything truly negative can be said about Nosferatu, it is that the film is not particularly original. Because it is a remake of a much older film, and because…

Could the new Wicked movie spark a return to classic movie-musicals?

The film version of Dancing Through Life makes you think this is how it was always intended to be —  crescendoing alongside an upbeat dance number, where huge, cylindrical spinning…

UVic student film considers intergenerational effects of Japanese-Canadian internment

Nagasaki recently screened the film for the Victoria Historical Society, where she also spoke about the history of Japanese-Canadian internment during the Second World War and the impacts it had…