Film critic | Peter Howell Night Vision

Anote's Ark premieres in Park City

Park City, Utah — While the rest of the world either ignores climate change or frets about what might happen some day in the distant fut...

A taste of Toronto in Park City, Utah

Park City, Utah -- Toronto's film critics might be tickled to know that their just-published book, Our Words on Film, is now available fo...

The Game Changers extols virtues of veganism

Park City, Utah — Academy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos, whose 2009 Sundance doc The Cove changed forever how the world thinks ab...

Sundance 2018 opens

Park City, Utah -- The 34th edition of the Sundance Film Festival got off to its usual low-key start this afternoon with its usual press ...

Photon phantasmagoric, but fails

Remember learning about the dual nature of light back in high school physics class? We had it drummed into us that light is, strangely, b...

Hot damn! Hot Docs is only a week away!

My favourite film festival of the year, Hot Docs, is nearly here: The much anticipated 2017 edition runs from April 27 to May 7 and takes...

World's largest film festival ever more than exceeds the hype

Congratulations to Reel Canada for its over-the-top success yesterday pulling off the world's biggest one-day film festival -- ever! From...

The Women's March at Sundance 2017

Park City, Utah — On Saturday, Jan. 21, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration as the new president of the United States, women (and l...

Look and See . . . and listen, too

Park City, Utah -- Laura Dunn’s documentary about Wendell Berry, the celebrated American author, environmental activist and defender of a...

An Inconvenient Sequel

Park City, Utah -- An Inconvenient Sequel, former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore's new film about climate change, had its world premiere her...

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Movies I can't live without

Toronto Star movie critic Peter Howell has written a book about his 25 favourite movies, with highly personal reviews from Apocalypse Now to The Wizard of Oz.

Here's a sample of his review of 2001: A Space Odyssey, his all-time favourite film:

"It was billed as The Ultimate Trip and the hyperbole was justified, then as now.

Stanley Kubrick's space opus still seems like the future, 52 years after its release and 19 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings..."