Alex Heeney reviews Chase Joynt and Julietta Singh’s The Nest, a Gothic documentary about a haunted house that reveals lesser-known parts of Winnipeg’s intersectional history.
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InsideOut Reviews: Sandbag Dam, The Nature of Invisible Things
Alex Heeney reviews Rafaela Camelo’s The Nature of Invisible Things and Čejen Černić Čanak’s Sandbag Dam at Toronto’s InsideOut LGBTQ+ Film Festival: two sensitive films about young people that young people should see.
Ep. 173 Beginnings and Endings: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (dir. Laura Piani)
On the podcast, Alex delves into the beginning and ending of one of the year’s best films, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life. A close look at how tone, structure, blocking, and design create a powerful emotional payoff.
Ep. 172 Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (dir. Laura Piani)
On the podcast, Alex recommends Laura Piani’s Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, a witty and warm film with a touch of melancholy about a woman getting unstuck.
Interview: Lucio Castro on Drunken Noodles
In this interview, Lucio Castro discusses the total freedom of low-budget filmmaking for his queer Cannes ACID film Drunken Noodles.
Film Review: Pauline Loquès’s Nino at Cannes
Alex Heeney reviews Pauline Loquès’s feature debut, Nino, starring Théodore Pellerin, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a twentysomething man’s nervewrecking weekend after he’s diagnosed with c
ancer and before he starts treatment.