Moving Picture Views
Every time I sit down to write a review of this damn thing, I end up flipping through it again, and getting caught up in one of its strangely compelling little articles, or one of the little blurb-boxes with local Toronto film biz gossip. Look, it just happened again with a snappy little essay on John Paizs, a maker of short films whose most recent work of social satire “Top of the Food Chain” premiered at the Film Festival. This snafu happened the last time I sat down to say something glib and potentially dismissive about this curious little zine, only then I got snagged reading “Paul of the Wild,” an essay on the Canadian film industry completed by a second writer on behalf of someone named Paul who seems to have flipped out and split to NWT in the midst of writing. I know, get your hands on a copy – even if, like me, you’re not a film person – and see if it happens to you too. Write us here at bp if you encounter the same kind of mesmerizing seduction, and together we can launch some kind of Matrix-like plan of attack. (HC)
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