Director Susan Johnson discusses her female Holden Caulfield film, Carrie Pilby, one of the highlights of TIFF 2016, and working with her star Bel Powley.
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Interview: Hope Dickson Leach discusses her astonishing debut The Levelling
One of the highlights of last year’s TIFF, The Levelling announces a new talent on the film scene in writer-director Hope Dickson Leach. She talks to Elena Lazic about developing and designing the film, which opens in North America on March 24.
Interview: Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane on School Life
Directors Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane discuss their documentary film In Loco Parentis about a modern boarding school, Headfort School in Ireland. Neasa Ní Chianáin has continued to explore innovative pedagogy on film with her documentary Young Plato.
Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror
Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results of shoving young women into a pressure cooker of experiences and expectations.
Hello Destroyer explores the thin line between hockey menace and model
Kevan Funk’s Hello Destroyer is a hockey movie where the drama is not in the game, but in how its violence has consequences that ripple off the ice.
Review: A Fantastic Woman was one of the best of the Berlinale
Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman follows a grieving trangender woman who fights for her right to be respectfully treated as a person in mourning.