By Anne Brodie A traumatic event occurred in high school when we members of the senior class were shown a black and white documentary called Night and Fog, by Alain Resnais. We were flooded by gruesome films and stills that taught us more thoroughly than any lecture could have - the irrefutable …
Women Do It All, and So Does This 18th Century Polymath, a Man.
By Anne Brodie Twice Colonized opens this year's 30th annual Hot Docs Film Festival on April 27. Filmmaker Lin Alluna focused her lens for seven years on Inuit lawyer and sealskin clothes designer, Aaju Peter. She was indeed 'twice colonized". The first time Peter was taken alone as a child of …
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Serious Matters, Scandals Galore, Hilarity, Heartbreak, Earth Day, the Universe, Food – and More Canadian Films – The Screens Have It All!
By Anne Brodie - Charlotte a powerful animated Canadian film, with an impressive international cast presents the saga of German Jewish painter Charlotte Saloman. Charlotte's family was well off in Berlin in the years leading up to the German Nazification. Her gift for painting was clear early, her …
A Good Week for Screening, Stars, Stories and That Influential and Deeply Polarising Family of Business Women from LA.
Michael McGowan's sensitive adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel All My Puny Sorrows starring Allison Pill, Sarah Gadon, and Mare Winningham follows a tight-knit family struggling with the suicide of their father/husband (Donal Logue), years after the fact. It changed the landscape of who this …
Gangs, Saints, Revolting Babies, Teen Angst and Hysterical Motherland!
Sundance Now's Motherland By Anne Brodie Steven Soderberg's noir period gang comedy No Sudden Move on Crave owes a huge debt to Noah Hawley's Fargo Season 4. Set amidst Black and Italian gangsters in the fifties, it's shot similarly with similar funky period music given a cool update, …
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