Volkmar Richter
About Volkmar Richter
Volkmar Richter is a former producer for CBC Radio, first in Toronto, then in Vancouver. He is a life-long movie fan ever since he was taken to his first as a boy in a small town in Austria. It was an American swashbuckler that he's been watching out for ever since.
MOVIES: That gay rom-com, a Halloween favorite alive again and a rarity: a new western
Also a few picks at the Vancouver International Film Festival, one about climate-change radicals
MOVIES: Marilyn re-imagined, Harry Styles takes the screen and here's Canada's Oscar bid
Also: a touching immigrant tale and the flying bankrobber
MOVIES with women warriors in Africa, silent teens in Wales and the prequel to a Texas horror
Also a kaleidescopic appreciation of Davie Bowie
Let the film festivals begin
For weeks we've been getting news about what and who are coming to the Toronto International Film Festival. Spielberg to Oprah. Special recognition to Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, Buffy Sainte-Marie and others. Celebrities and big titles. Now that TIFF is underway, we'll see many reviews. Meanwhile, the Vancouver International Film Festival announced its line up this week.
MOVIES: Finding great fantasy prior to Lord of the Rings, also exposing a preacher and gunning for a drug lord
And: a very realistic picture of drug addiction in a family
MOVIES about saving the rainforest, Idris Elba up against one angry lion and one man's love story amid dementia
Also: an unusually truthful film about young women and sex
MOVIES: about millennials' problems, a sky-borne thriller and a call to dare fate
Also saving the rainforest, opposing arranged marriage and partying angry
Brad Pitt on a crazy train, Ron Howard at a cave rescue and a space alien in Indigenous culture
Also Indigenous/settler contact in a long lost opera and frazzled times running a restaurant
MOVIES: When even super-heroes need rescuing, a high-school is tricked and thoughts turn to vengeance
Also small films from Canada and the U.K. with high goals