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: All but one of the new arrivals this week are about women or girls
And the lone other is from a book by a woman
MOVIES: Think caste system, not racism, says a novel documentary. One of three this week, all groundbreakers
One recalls a bookburning, one helps with homelessness and then there's Snoop Dogg stops in with some raunchy football fun
MOVIES: New award-calibre films arrive as we wait for the Oscars
There's also realism about schools, gentrification, memory and racism.
MOVIES: Mean Girls, a favorite remade, but not as good, plus five others new in town
They deliver action, mountain culture, Freud in imaginary conversation and a poet on race
MOVIES: They've come in twos: award candidates, dystopian visions, and gay love stories
And two are Paul Mescal films. Not this one: it's American Fiction
Movies for the holidays offer a whole range from nice to grim
Winners, fighters, survivors, Black women, the Holocaust: they're all here
MOVIES: Willy Wonka is back and expected to be huge this holiday season, plus four others
They are another Chicken Run, two films with women's issues and some musicians you should know
MOVIES: Leonard Bernstein revealed in Maestro, Eddie Murphy's first Christmas movie and a peek into the Whistler Film Festival
Also an unusual road to better race relations in the U.S.