By Anne Brodie Let’s celebrate June Squibb! Hardworking, tiny, mighty, she has an uncanny acting gift - a mix of power and subtlety She’s enlivened more than 1oo films, including Nebraska for which she received an Oscar nomination, About Schmidt, The Humans and Thelma. First timer Scarlett …
Politics Then and Now – Yikes, A Crowded Romance and Mystery Chills.
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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Kerouac and the Road, Alicia Silverstone’s Canadian Co-Pro, Girlfriends, and Spies!
By Anne Brodie Jack Kerouac, his landmark book On the Road and the Beat era came before me, and was not a topic of conversation. But his legacy roars back to life in Ebs Burnough’s impressive doc Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation, a well-made collage of reminiscences those who knew him and …
Tilda! Christmas Comes in Many Forms, True Tales, Oh Canada, Mystery, Love and Real Estate!
A family survived an earthly holocaust living in a salt mine - an extremely well appointed, art treasure trove museum of the best art – salt mine. They’ve been there twenty years and made a policy never to give food or shelter to beggars who come by, as has happened, because every time they offered …
Immigrant and LGBTQ2 Stories, Rock Hudson’s Not So Secret Secret, How to Dress to Save the Planet … and Idris Elba!
By Anne Brodie Lina Rodriguez' meditative, determinedly slow-paced TIFF entry, the immigration story So Much Tenderness follows a Colombian environmental lawyer Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald) under death threats who flees to Canada. She witnessed the murder of her husband, also an activist, and …