Perched there in my little Barney the Purple Dinosaur chair right in front of the TV, I sit and sob, crying my eyes out as Mary Poppins grips the handle…
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Literacy Narrative: On Red
by Guest Contributor January 16, 2020Image Credit: “Red Dresses” by Elena Filatov Red is my favourite colour. I have heard it said that red is a masculine colour, a patriarchal colour; the colour of…
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SPOILER ALERT Alfonso Cuarón has made a feminist film. A friend of mine, a Chicana artist and activist, said I had to see Roma. Well, everyone’s saying you have to see…
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Brooms, moving, and growing up: an essay/love letter to Hayao Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service
by Alex Leininger August 8, 2017I’d told myself that it would be different, moving to New York. For so long, its idealized specter was my saving grace – in theory, of course – as I…
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Unlike the wildly popular post-apocalyptic film genre, whose tales take place after the end of the world, Michael Mann’s 2004 film Collateral paints us a surreal portrait of Los…
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Misogyny, personal experiences, and numbers: Izzy Lee talks sexism in the film industry
by Izzy Lee July 6, 2017As a filmmaker, journalist, and film programmer, I attend festivals all the time. Sometimes one of my films is playing; sometimes I’m there to review films. The most recent festival…
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“Vengeance is her only reason for living…” An asura, in Buddhist mythology, is described as a vengeful demigod that can never know true happiness – their desires and longings…
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How does the land we stand on define us? Does a place’s history and inheritance have bearing on its presence? Are some patterns that play out through time beyond our…
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Filmmaker Jordan Rennert On Making A Documentary About Neil Gaiman
by Guest Contributor October 14, 2016Back in 2011, Jordan Rennert and Patrick Meaney pitched the idea of making a documentary on the writer Neil Gaiman. Their production company Respect Films had done documentaries on cult…
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The power of love, sidekicks, and joining the larger conversation: a review of Life Animated
by Jim Ross September 22, 2016Imagine you have a child who is running, playing, talking, and sleeping normally until he’s cut down in his tracks. His motor skills suddenly deteriorate. He no longer sleeps nights.…
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That may not be “smart” in the normal sense of the word, but I don’t really care. Kiddiepunk is almost like a big art project to me, and I’ve never used my art as a money-making source. It keeps things pure that way because I just do what I want and I only publish things that I love. There’s no pressure on any particular release to “succeed” on a financial level. It’s a punk mentality that is just kind of ingrained in my head. But it’s great these days because you can do these things relatively affordably and sell them directly to the people who are interested. You don’t need distribution, ISBNs, any of that stuff. You just need to put your energy into making something great. In the not-so-distant past, before the internet, before high quality digital printing, you really couldn’t do what I do now, so it’s cool.
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Orson Welles’s 1941 film Citizen Kane is filled with fragments. Even in the very first sequence, the audience witnesses the titular character dying completely alone, separated from society; after his final word,…
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Raw, Honest, Brilliant: Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court
by Guest Contributor March 7, 2016There are only a few Indian films that are not laced with lavish dance sequences, clichéd romance and action elements, cheesy dialogues and yet are so enthralling with the simple,…
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A Street Car Named Whatever
by Guest Contributor February 22, 2016A Streetcar Named Whatever Tatiana Ryckman The thing is, all I know about A Streetcar Named Desire is that there is a character named Stella, and I know this…