Leeta Liepins

THE VIEW #1 – MARTY SUPREME Timothee Chalamet, who delivered a great performance as Bob Dylan in last year’s A Complete Unknown, is back with another great performance, this one loosely based on, and inspired by, 1950’s table tennis prodigy, Marty Reisner.In the film, the character is known as Marty Mauser. Mauser’s sole focus – when he’s not scheming or scamming to raise money for expenses - is to become the world champion in table tennis.

THE VIEW #1 – NOUVELLE VAGUE One of the 20th Century’s most creative film movements occurred in France in the late 1950’s, when a group of film critics, who were also aspiring filmmakers, finally starting making their own films. Led by Francois Truffaut’s critically acclaimed film, The 400 Blows, (1959), French New Wave took world cinema by storm with their rejection of traditional filmmaking, and new approaches to the telling a story, as well as editing and visual style.

THE VIEW #1 – Who Killed The Montreal Expos? It was a great loss to the city of Montreal when their beloved baseball team, the Expos, left for greener pastures in 2004 after a 35-year existence. Those greener pastures were in Washington DC, the largest market in the US at the time without a baseball team (and, ironically, a city that had lost their own baseball teams in 1960 and again in 1971).