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 …
One Gentle Film and a Bunch of Heartcrushers!
By Anne Brodie Jane Austen Wrecked My Life follows Agathe (Camille Rutherford) a bookseller in Paris’ tony Shakespeare & Co. who wants to write a book, inspired by her lifelong love of the works of Jane Austen. And not just any book. She determines to write one that will connect her with …
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A Stunning Canadian Entry, Arquette Antics, Arnold, and Discovering a Sister Far Far Away.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Marie Clements' devastating Bones of Crows follows a Cree woman from childhood through her life and one hundred years of violent, hateful abuse of indigenous people in Canada. Set against historic government decisions that resulted in discrimination as policy in …