By Anne Brodie A ninety-year-old woman who lives alone in the woods on a 54 acre property knows what we’ve all been grappling with for years – how to live easily on the earth and work with it for our needs, our joys and our belonging. Mennonite Agatha Bock is the subject of the documentary …
Truman Capote’s Swans Fought Back When He Betrayed Them. Buckle up!
The sad story of Truman Capote's ouster as storyteller and entertainer to the wives of Manhattan's most powerful men continues to make waves today. Much ink has been spilled over Capote, in the 80s considered the greatest living American author, who was banned from the magic circle of dinners at La …
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Ambition’s Price, and Being Elsewhere.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania's innovative style brings to vivid, unforgettable life Four Daughters, a quasi-documentary about a family of Tunisian women mourning the disappearance of the eldest two daughters who were "devoured by wolves". Ben Hania as the real mother Olfa …
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Timely and Powerful Indigenous Films, Celebrating Geraldine Chaplin, Royal Wedding Redux and Tantoo Cardinal!
Geraldine Chaplin and Jackie Ludueña Koslovitch in Holy Beasts By Anne Brodie Canada, drop everything and see Beans in theatres. This heart-tugging drama about a little girl caught up in a vicious cycle of racism and struggle is all too true. Images from July to September 1990, in Oka, …