In this episode, we preview the Sundance 2023 Film Festival and discuss the films we’re most excited for at the festival and why. We also give some context about the kinds of films we’ve discovered (and been disappointed by) at past film festivals, and discuss Sundance alum returning to this year’s festival.
E132: Sarah Polley’s Women Talking
n this episode of the podcast, we discuss Sarah Polley’s new Oscar hopeful film: her screen adaptation of the Miriam Toewes’s novel Women Talking. We talk about how the film works (or doesn’t) as an adaptation, its lack of specificity in depicting a mennonite community, and the many problems that plague the film.
E131: Remembering Jeff Barnaby
This podcast episode pays tribute to the great films and enormous impact of Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby who passed away on October 13, 2022. He directed two landmark Indigenous feature films out of Canada: Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013) and Blood Quantum (2019).
E130: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo – a film podcast
On this members only episode, we discuss Jerzy Skolimowski’s visually and aurally inventive Eo and creating empathy for animals on screen.
E129: Highlights of 2022 fall film festivals
On this episode, we discuss some of our favourite films from the 2022 fall festivals, first features, and the dominance of Netflix Movies
Bonus 31: My Small Land
On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Emma Kawawada’s first feature film, My Small Land,about a teenage Kurdish immigrant in Tokyo. It’s now in Canadian cinemas.