By Anne Brodie You may remember being riveted by the events that unfolded in 1974 as 19-year-old heiress Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by terrorist left wing radicals the Symbionese Liberation Army. Kept in a cupboard in the group’s safe …
Anne Brodie Interviews Bryce Dallas Howard, Director of Dads
Bryce Dallas Howard is best known as Ron Howard's actress daughter; she's starred in prestige films over twenty years including the Jurassic Wolrd films, Rocketman, The Help, Spider-Man 3 and The Village. Now directing shorts and television she's releasing her first documentary feature Dads in time …
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Women Look After Themselves – Horror, Crime, Satanism and the Search for Justice.
By Anne Brodie First Cow is a deceptively simply told fable that gets under the skin and lingers. Two men in the Klondike have vague dreams of cashing in on the 1896 gold rush. Kelly Reichardt whose films I deeply admire takes us back in time to the brutal unforgiving north full of dreamers …
Steve Gravestock’s Fascinating Labour of Love “A History of Icelandic Film”
By Anne Brodie There’s a history of strong showings of Icelandic films at the Toronto International Film Festival dating back to the early eighties. Programmer and film scholar Steve Gravestock has programmed Nordic film year-round and for the festival since 1999, introducing us to a wealth of …
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Jessica Matten Makes Television History in Tribal, APTN’s Stereotype-Busting Series
by Anne Brodie Jessica Matten is a Cree and Metis actor from Alberta best known for her work on Blackstone, Frontier, Burden of Truth and the influential short A Red Girl's Reasoning now being adapted as a feature film. Matten makes television history in the new series Tribal on APTN. She plays …