…between — only one to two features are produced each year, and usually without state funding. The country has been under political upheaval for decades, with cycles of uprisings before…
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Berlinale Review: Ray Yeung’s All Shall Be Well
…estate, and eventually, out of their shared apartment, too. Pat’s family justifies their behaviour by insisting on referring to Angie as Pat’s “best friend” rather than acknowledging their deep long-term…
Creative Nonfiction #5: Penny Lane on Confessions of a Good Samaritan and playing with form
…and even curating archival footage and interviews to reflect the state of mind of the ‘character of Penny Lane’ as she develops through the film. Penny Lane has been experimenting…
Kelly Reichardt on her new film Showing Up
…her art studio. I also shot some 16 mm of Jessica Jackson Hutchins in a studio at Cal State. It was sort of wading in, in that kind of respect,…
Pray for Our Sinners: TIFF Film Review
…the widespread suffering of pregnant unmarried women at the hands of the church that happened over decades. There were several films at TIFF about state-sanctioned institutional oppression of women and…
Stonewalling Film Review: Surviving an unwanted pregnancy
Alex Heeney reviews Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s film Stonewalling. China’s two-child policy casts a long shadow on twenty-year-old Lynn who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy — and loses…