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By Anne Brodie Darlene Naponse’ brilliant, wordless documentary AKI “earth, land, or ground in relation to the Anishnaabe homeland” was filmed in her home Atikameksheng Anishnawbek, formerly White Fish Lake First Nation, Ontario. It follows her stunning feature Falls Around Her, also shot there. …
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by Anne Brodie I Swear, the true story John Davidson is wrenchingly hard to watch, but it’s so easy to empathise with him and his struggles. The Edinburgh native suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, a condition that causes him to shout, swear and say things automatically – he has no control over …
By Anne Brodie Riefenstahl by Andres Veiel raises the spectre of the Third Reich and its ignominy, focussing on its première filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler’s rumoured lover and a technically and artistically skilled filmmaker. She made two extraordinary Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the …
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By Anne Brodie ... dreams indeed ... Dust to …
By Anne Brodie Netflix' Mae Martin miniseries Wayward casts an intriguingly odd and threatening spell in a remote forest where locals navigate disappearances, murder, kidnapping and child abuse. Tall Pines is a community on edge; the series opens with a loudspeaker blaring psychological abuse on …
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