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.
Film reviews: Three scary movies for Halloween, others taken from real life
They include citizen scientists, trauma healed and a rare genetic condition.
Film reviews: A little-known classic returns, climate activists make a mark, a Chinese legend gets an update, plus a late add — Borat
Also, memories of Oliver Sacks, a wanderer’s life and a tale of oozing autocracy.
Film reviews: Rebecca remade, Greta Thunberg in action and how Trump bungled COVID-19
Also: A tangled romance in Hong Kong and two other tales that inspire.
Robert De Niro as grandpa, Christopher Walken as a Canadian farmer and a novel teen comedy
New work from Adam Sandler and Robert De Niro, a high school comedy, a couple of tales for Halloween and, thankfully, a very good film about a Black woman trying both playwriting and rapping.
Three last VIFF picks as 2020 festival nears its end
A high school comedy, a timely healthy eating experiment and a mid-life bender.
Movies about real people: the Chicago 7, Gloria Steinem and two documentaries at VIFF
Also dramas about schizophrenia, turning off technology and time travelling to save the world.
VIFF films about a classy first job, bad vibes between father and son and recalling Oka crisis
Also drug addiction among Indigenous youth and Angela Merkel fretting over the politics of refugees.
Sherlock Holmes has a rival, while VIFF has Toronto drug crime and Jimmy Carter’s musical friends
Also a sketchy bio of Nikola Tesla, a poignant workplace drama, and some brutal revenge filmed in Canada.
A stylish fantasy, a second blast at corporate culture, and recalling Canada’s Indigenous history
Also another humanistic film from Iran, and genre fun from Vancouver.
The biggest-ever protest, a modern Southern Gothic, and an early VIFF review
Plus some Aussie family fun, two not so fun family tales, and celebrating a female scientist.