This is a more or less comprehensive list of all my film-related writing for 2015. Articles in Red are my personal favourites.
January
Review for PopOptiq: ‘The Duke of Burgundy’ is the S&M masterpiece we need
News for PopOptiq: TIFF Lightbox Presents: ‘Good Men, Good Women’ The Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Jan 29 – March 1)
Review for CJLO Magazine: ‘BLACKHAT’ IS THEMATICALLY RICH BUT SUFFERS FROM NARRATIVE CONFUSION
February
News for PopOptiq: Festival International du Film pour Enfants de Montréal (Feb 28 – March 8)
Review for PopOptiq: ‘Le Scaphandrier’ will make you yearn for the Scrappy-Doo era of Scooby Doo
News for PopOptiq: TIFF Presents: I for Iran: A History of Iranian Cinema by Its Creators (March 5 to April 5)
Review for PopOptiq: RVCQ 2015: ‘Les Loups’ is the first great Quebec film of 2015
Review for PopOptiq: RVCQ 2015: ‘Miraculum’ feels like a failed pilot
Review for PopOptiq: ‘Backstreet Boys: Show em’ What You’re Made of’ is dark portrait of music industry
Article for Paste Magazine: 10 Other Shades of Gray: Sadomasochism in Film
March
Interview for PopOptiqI for Iran: Interview with Tina Hassania, writer of ‘Asghar Farhadi: Life And Cinema’
Review for Vague Visages: Chasing Chabrol: ‘Les biches’
Review for Vague Visages: Chasing Chabrol: ‘Les bonnes femmes’
Review for Vague Visages: Chasing Chabrol: ‘Violette Nozière’
Review for Vague Visages: Review: Rafaël Ouellet’s ‘Gurov and Anna’
Review for Vague Visages: The Moreau Files: ‘The Bride Wore Black’
Review for Vague Visages: The Moreau Files: ‘Les Amants’
Review for Vague Visages: The Moreau Files: ‘Ascenseur pour l’échafaud’
Review for Vague Visages:The Moreau Files: ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’
Review for Vague Visages: The Moreau Files: ‘La Notte’
Review for Vague Visages:The Moreau Files: ‘Jules et Jim’
Review for Vague Visages: Review: François Delisle’s ‘Chorus’
Article for Paste Magazine: Let’s Talk About Sex: Sadomasochism and deviancy in American Cinema
April
Review for PopOptiq: ‘Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck’ avoids a literary reading of Cobain’s life
Review for Vague Visages: Chasing Chabrol: ‘La cérémonie’
May
Review for PopOptiq: ‘Highway of Tears’ is essential viewing for all Canadians
Article for Fandor: What Can Cannes 30 Years Ago Tell Us Now?
June
News for PopOptiq: Fantasia Film Festival announces second wave of titles
July
Review for PopOptiq: Fantasia 2015: ‘Sunrise’ tackles the issue of India’s missing children
Review for PopOptiq: Fantasia 2015: Sion Sono’s ‘Tag’ is a lean chase film about the nature of reality
Review for PopOptiq: Fantasia 2015: ‘The Blue Hour’ is sexy, intimate and full of dread
Review for PopOptiq: Fantasia 2015: ‘Ludo’ is beyond saving
Review for PopOptiq: Fantasia 2015: ‘Catch me Daddy’ features star-making performance from Sameena Jabeen Ahmed
Review for PopOptiq: Fantasia 2015: ‘The Hallow’ is hollow horror
Review for PopOptiq: Fantasia 2015: ‘Nina Forever’ is a gruesome, sexy, dark comedy
Article for for PopOptiq: Justine’s Five Must See Films at Fantasia Film Festival 2015
Video interview with CUTV: Doug Taylor and Pascal Trottier for A Christmas Horror Story (VIDEO)
Video Interview with CUTV: Steve Hoban & Mark Smith for A Christmas Horror Story (VIDEO)
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Black Orpheus’ (Marcel Camus, 1959)
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Mamma Roma’ (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962)
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Tabu’ (Miguel Gomes, 2012)
August
Article for Indiewire: In ‘Entertainment’ and ‘James White,’ Losers Undo the American Dream
Article for Indiewire: With ‘No Home Movie,’ Chantal Akerman Chronicles the End of a Life, and a Search for Where She Belongs
Interview for Indiewire: Here’s What It’s Like to Be a Female Filmmaker in Morocco
Review for Vague Visages: ‘I Remember Nothing’ (Zia Anger, 2015)
Review for Vague Visages: Peckinpah and Sex Part 1 – ‘The Ballad of Cable Hogue’
Review for Vague Visages: Peckinpah and Sex Part 2 – ‘The Getaway’
Review for Vague Visages: Peckinpah and Sex Part 3 – ‘Straw Dogs’
Review for Vague Visages: ‘La vallée’ (Barbet Schroeder, 1972)
Review for Vague Visages: ‘88:88’ (Isiah Medina, 2015)
Review for Vague Visages: ‘Right Now, Wrong Then’ (Hong Sang-Soo, 2015)
Review for Vague Visages: ‘Chevalier’ (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2015)
Review for Vague Visages: ‘Cosmos’ (Andrzej Zulawski, 2015)
September
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Smooth Talk’ (Joyce Chopra, 1985)
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Bullhead’ (Michaël R. Roskam, 2011)
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Cat People’ (Jacques Tourneur, 1942)
Article for Movie Mezzanine: Wes Craven in Memoriam at Movie Mezzanine
October
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘The Devils’ (Ken Russell, 1971)
Interview for Vague VisagesNSFW Video: Justine A. Smith Interviews Gaspar Noé About ‘Love’
Review for Vague Visages: FNC 2015: ‘Transfixed’ (Alon Kol, 2015)
Review for Vague Visages: FNC 2015: ‘Blonde aux yeux bleus’ (Pascal Plante, 2015)
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: A Lesbian Vampire in ‘Daughters of Darkness’ (Harry Kümel, 1971)
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ (Jim Sharman, 1975)
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Blood for Dracula’ (Paul Morrissey, 1974)
Article for Beyond The Red Room: 10 Must See Films at FNC 2015
Article for Fandor: Horror in Venice
Article for The Globe and Mail: The Rebels and the Vanguards of Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Interview for Indiewire: How this director turned an award-winning short into a feature and wowed at Cannes
Article for Movie Mezzanine: The 20 Best French Horror Films Ever
Article for Vice Canada: How Softcore Porn Kicked Off a Revolution in Quebec
Interview: Interview with Guy Maddin, interview by Justine Smith, Video produced by Chico Peres and Write-up by Greg Cwik
Video Essay: The Marriage and Style of Sex: Fashion in Bye Bye Birdie (Writing and Narration)
Video Essay: Ingmar Bergman: A Video Essay (Writing and Narration)
November
Review for Vague Visages: #Noirvember: Joseph H. Lewis’ ‘Gun Crazy’ and the Erotic Allure of Firearms
Review for Vague Visages: #Noirvember: Howard Hawks’ ‘The Big Sleep’ (1946) Neuters Marlowe’s Hatred
Review for Vague Visages: RIDM 2015: ‘Red Hollywood’ (1996) – Another Masterwork From Thom Andersen
Review for Vague Visages: RIDM 2015: ‘My Love, Don’t Cross That River’ (Jin Mo-young, 2015)
Review for Vague Visages: RIDM 2015: Frederick Wiseman’s ‘In Jackson Heights’ and the Virtues of Eisenstein
Review for Vague Visages: #Noirvember: ‘The Dark Mirror’ and the Paranoid Double (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
Review for Vague Visages: #Noirvember: Of Love and Other Demons, ‘Gilda’ (Charles Vidor, 1946)
Review for Beyond the Red Room: #Noirvember ‘The Big Combo’ (Joseph H. Lewis, 1955)
10 Must See Films at RIDM 2015
Article for Cleo A Feminist Film Journal: The Impossible Love of David Lean’s Brief Encounter
Article for The Globe and Mail: Montreal’s Cinemania Film Festival continues the dialogue about women in film
December
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Dead Ringers’ (David Cronenberg, 1988)
Interview for Vague VisagesInterview with Philippe Falardeau, Director of ‘Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre’
Review for Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: The Toxic Masculinity of Michael Cimino’s ‘Year of the Dragon’
Review for Beyond The Red Room: ‘A Very Murray Christmas’ is bittersweet and incomplete
For Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: The Rose Tattoo (Daniel Mann, 1955)
For Vague Visages: ’21 Grams Mistakes Suffering for Meaning’
For Vague Visages: Of Love and Other Demons: Early Winter (Michael Rowe, 2015)
For Fandor: Video, Women in Film Trading Places
Beyond the Red Room 