By Anne Brodie Azazel Jacob’s Netflix’s His Three Daughters concerns three estranged daughters (Natasha Lyonne, Elizabeth Olsen, and Carrie Coon) who gather to watch over their dying, beloved father Vinny (Jay O. Sanders). Coon’s Katie, the eldest daughter is always angry, and Olsen’s …
This Week, a Brief Look at TIFF Offerings Before the Deluge!!!
By Anne Brodie Canadian author and filmmaker Durga Chew-Bose’s feature film debut, a remake of the 1958 film Bonjour Tristesse based on Françoise Sagan’s novel is extraordinarily seductive. Widower Raymond (Claes Bang) is spending a relaxed summer on the French coast with his daughter …
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Universal Language is Canada’s Choice for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film 2025.
Today a jury selected Universal Language to represent Canada as a contender for the Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Oscars@. Julie Roy, Executive Director and CEO of Telefilm Canada announced the choice during an online news conference this afternoon, accompanied by the filmmakers …
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BY ANNE BRODIE Jackie Shane was a Black trans singer from the American South whose remarkable personal and musical legacy is revived in the NFB documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story. She found refuge in Toronto’s Yonge Street club scene that she loved and that loved back; her …
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Filmmaker Lee Daniels Loves a Risk. His latest, The Deliverance, Based on a True Case of Demonic Possession. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is the Exorcist.
In 2011, Latoya Ammons, her three children and her mother moved into a home in Gary, Indiana. What followed beggars the imagination, but is well-documented by health, government and city officials. The family was possessed by demonic forces. Lee Daniels, never one to shy away from bold material, …