Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Land of Plenty

  Wim Wenders

  PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2007

  Wim Wenders has paid dearly for his mid-period triumph Wings of Desire — everything after that has seemed like a falling off, lacking the c...

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  Invisible Waves

  Pen-ek Ratanaruang

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  The director of the much-loved Last Life in the Universe comes up only half successful with his latest effort. Tadanobu Asano returns as a...

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  Kabul Express

  Kabir Khan

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  The TIFF inclusion of Kabul Express is proof of one thing: that festival bigwigs often program while drunk. How else to explain the presenc...

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  The Lives of Others

  Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  For about an hour, The Lives of Others threatens to be an actual movie. It’s a conventional one, with a sexy artists’ milieu and some evil...

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  Manufactured Landscapes

  Jennifer Baichwal

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  Edward Burtynsky is a photographer of manmade horrors: strip mines, massive factories and general piles of refuse on the roadside to what w...

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  Reg Harkema

  Monkey Warfare

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  Just when you thought that Canada was good for nothing but Degrassi and Peter Mansbridge, here comes this short sharp shock from veteran ed...

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  Offside

  Jafar Panahi

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  This isn’t one of Jafar Panahi’s great films — The Circle and Crimson Gold were tough acts to follow — and Offside winds up singing in more...

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  Paperback Hero

  Peter Pearson

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2007

  This year’s Canadian Open Vault is a 1973 curio with Keir Dullea, star of 2001, and those accustomed to his austere performance there are i...