Vic & Walter Thiessen - On Movies...

I will make up for Walter’s lack of preamble with a very long introduction to my top-ten film list. If that doesn’t excite you, please do jump ahead to my list, found somewhere below.   Introduction: Part One A careful examination of my annual lists of favourite films (and my lists of favourite festival films) reveals what some may see as a disturbing pattern: the films on these lists are overwhelmingly dark, by which I mean they are films about people who are suffering or films about awful things that people have done to each other (or will do to each other in some possible future) or films about dark secrets, or films about dark subjects in general. Defined broadly enough, every single film on my 2024 list (including the ten honourable mentions) could be classified as a dark film, though two of them ( Perfect Days and Flow ) are much lighter. Indeed, 2024 may be my darkest year yet, something I already alluded to in my list of favourite films of Cinéfest 2024.  In my w...