Justine Smith
Little White Lies
Westmount, QC, Canada
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Past articles by Justine:
Why Tár should win the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award
Todd Field's script for the classical music psychodrama is a meticulously crafted exercise in form. → Read More
Why I love Joan Crawford’s performance in Daisy Kenyon
Otto Preminger’s 1947 love triangle with a postwar twist sees the Hollywood star at her bristling best. → Read More
How Sam Peckinpah transformed the TV western
Before he moved into films, the director conceived a bold, unromanticised vision of the American frontier, The Westerner. → Read More
Are short films the future of virtual reality?
As the medium continues to grow, VR pieces like I Saw the Future point to shortform storytelling re-entering mainstream cinema. → Read More
The time Charlie Chaplin’s corpse went missing
In 1978, the comedy icon’s body disappeared – was it a ransom plot or a practical joke gone awry? → Read More
Did the Olsen twins ever make a great film?
Fourteen years after Mary-Kate and Ashley stepped away from acting, we reflect on the siblings’ on-screen legacy. → Read More
How the 1969 Oscars marked a turning point for Hollywood
The 41st Academy Awards went ahead without a host, and signalled the transition from Old to New Hollywood. → Read More
In praise of Paul Newman, Director
Exploring the late Hollywood icon’s underappreciated work behind the camera. → Read More
It’s Showtime! – Why Beetlejuice remains the ghost with the most
Thirty years ago, director Tim Burton and screenwriter Michael McDowell unleashed their colourful, bizarre vision of the afterlife onto the world. → Read More
Why I love Patricia Arquette’s performance in True Romance
Her role as lovestruck sex worker Alabama is among the most compelling characters of the 1990s. → Read More
Dawn of the Dead had an alternate ending that’s even bleaker than the original
George A Romero originally had a different fate in store for the protagonists of his classic zombie horror. → Read More
Did the Olsen twins ever make a great film?
Fourteen years after Mary-Kate and Ashley stepped away from acting, we reflect on the siblings’ on-screen legacy. → Read More
The year revolution brought the Cannes Film Festival to a halt
The events of May ’68, spurred on by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, had a profound impact on French cinema and the film world at large. → Read More
The Columbine massacre still echoes through cinema
As someone who survived a school shooting, films like Gus Van Sant’s Elephant and Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique have a special resonance for me. → Read More
Q&A | Stephen S. Campanelli Talks To Us About Adapting Indian Horse For The Screen
In 2012, Richard Wagamese released his novel, Indian Horse, a semi-autobiographical account of growing up in the Canadian residential school system and finding solace in hockey. → Read More
Q&A | Stephen S. Campanelli Talks To Us About Adapting Indian Horse For The Screen
In 2012, Richard Wagamese released his novel, Indian Horse, a semi-autobiographical account of growing up in the Canadian residential school system and finding solace in hockey. → Read More
A cinema is paying tribute to sinister screen bunnies this Easter
Donnie Darko, Inland Empire and more are screening at Cinémathèque Québécoise this weekend. → Read More
The State of the Music Video in Quebec in 2018: A Slow Death?
If you were anything like me, as a teen your education was 5% school, and 95% Much Music. I knew all the VJs, I’d record the countdown on VHS and every Monday I’d exchange notes on the top of the week with friends at lunch. → Read More
The State of the Music Video in Quebec in 2018: A Slow Death?
If you were anything like me, as a teen your education was 5% school, and 95% Much Music. I knew all the VJs, I’d record the countdown on VHS and every Monday I’d exchange notes on the top of the week with friends at lunch. → Read More
Why Death Wish’s pro-gun politics are just as complex as ever
The original film’s glamorisation of vigilante justice resonated with an increasingly paranoid audience upon its release in 1974. → Read More