Tag: documentary
Faceless – Edinburgh International Film Festival Review
Faceless is a powerful documentary on protest, freedom and democracy. It is a deafening cry against oppression and tyranny told through the perspective of ordinary…
1988 in Film: Jane B by Agnes V
Actress Jane Birkin exists in multitudes. From Rivettian chess piece in Love on the Ground and La Belle Noiseuse to unsteady androgynous lover in La…
Hot Docs 21 Review: I’m Wanita (Matthew Walker)
The documentary chronicles Wanita Bahtiyar’s journey in to record her musically diverse album in Nashville, New Orleans, and Memphis. Wanita is a binge-drinker, cigarette smoker,…
Hot Docs 21 Review: Bank Job (Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell)
One of the most important documentaries you could see this year explores the relationship between everyday people and the banking industry. The system is meant…
Film Review – Martha: A Picture Story
Some artists are ignored, while others are simply unlucky: Martha Cooper was both. Her photographs captured artists at work, documenting process as well as final…
Sundance 2021 Review: In the Same Breath
With films like One Child Nation, I Am Another You, and Hooligan Sparrow, Nanfu Wang was already on her way to becoming legendary. In the Same Breath opens with a…
Sundance 2021 Review: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
It is the 50-year anniversary of Lucino Visconti’s film Death in Venice. A film that circled festivals and garnered plenty of praise from critics and…
Sundance 2021 Review: Writing with Fire
As a female journalist, is it easy just to read the statistics and see the small implications of being female in this industry from the…
LFF Review: David Byrne’s American Utopia (Spike Lee)
I had a few thoughts after the first song of American Utopia finished. The first was a sort of awe at Spike Lee’s direction, which…
LFF Review: The Painter and the Thief – A Strange But Touching Tribute to a Singular Friendship
Many great film titles dilute their characters into basic descriptors: Stalker, The Graduate, Bicycle Thieves, The Passenger. All these examples attempt to define human lives…
VIFF 2020 Review: The Reason I Jump (2020)
Why do humans tell stories? This is a question that has been asked and explored throughout the history of humanity with no one answer perfectly…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Kelsie Moore, director of The Get, Shelter in Place and The Gray Area
When the short films were whittled down to the final 20 for the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, it was hard to…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Shelter in Place (Kelsie Moore)
Salt Lake City, Utah looks to be a beautiful place, at least from what can be seen from the windows of a church. That is…
Film Review: Jack & Yaya (2019)
For too many LGBTQ+ people growing up, there is a grim reality of them being met with rejection and even hatred from their straight, cisgendered…
