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Tag: women in film

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SAINT OMER plays TIFF 2022

Sometimes a film will look you in the eye and ask you to search your soul.

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

TORA’S HUSBAND plays TIFF 2022

It’s already time to retrace our steps, and understand how we survived.

Posted on September 16, 2022September 16, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

WOMEN TALKING plays TIFF 2022

Sarah Polley returns with a story that started before we were born, in the hopes that the next generations story will be different.

Posted on September 14, 2022September 16, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

NANNY plays TIFF 2022

Who understands the true nature of horror better than black women?

Posted on September 13, 2022September 13, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

LOVE AND MATHEMATICS plays TIFF 2022

Claudia Sainte-Luce channels David Byrne and listens as her characters as “My God, how did I get here?”

Posted on September 12, 2022September 12, 2022
matineecast, podcasts

Episode 281 – TURNING RED

Talkin’ Domee Shi’s new film with Ruby Dhillon

Posted on March 28, 2022March 28, 2022
matineecast, podcasts

Episode 272 – ETERNALS

Talkin’ Chloé Zhao’s new film with Britany A. Murphy

Posted on November 8, 2021November 7, 2021
matineecast, podcasts

Episode 269 – TITANE

Talkin’ Julia Ducournau’s new film with Corey Atad

Posted on October 4, 2021October 3, 2021
festivals, screenings, TIFF

TITANE plays TIFF 2021

What do you get when you cross a Whitesnake video, Claire Denis, Anthony Burgess, and Barbara Streisand?

Posted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

I’M YOUR MAN plays TIFF 2021

At the end of the day, who really wants “the perfect man”?

Posted on September 16, 2021September 15, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

VIOLET plays TIFF 2021

Justine Bateman answers the question many of us ask about certain anxious people in our lives: “What were they thinking?”

Posted on September 13, 2021September 12, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

SCARBOROUGH plays TIFF 2021

Every major city in the world has a “Scarborough”

Posted on September 12, 2021September 12, 2021

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