Category: Women Filmmakers
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TIFF 2018: Astra Taylor’s “What is Democracy?”
Astra Taylor’s documentary What is Democracy?, which opens on January 16 at the IFC Center in New York City, promises
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Time’s Up for the Male Canon
I have a piece at Film Quarterly, in the online column, Quorum. Here is an excerpt: What will it take
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TIFF 2017: “Waru”
One of the best films at TIFF was made by eight directors, all Māori women. Waru, from New Zealand, consists
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TIFF 2017: Chloe Zhao’s “The Rider”
Years from now, when we look back at 2017’s TIFF, we might recognize it as historic: the moment when one
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TIFF 2016: “Toni Erdmann” and “Aquarius”
Cinephile culture tends to be suspicious of bigness. For example: big budgets; or an endlessly extending series franchise; or an
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Gina Telaroli and Kurt Walker
One of the “possible futures” of cinema (to use Gina Telaroli’s phrase) can be glimpsed on this Tumblr page, on
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TIFF 2014, part 1: Dardennes, Hausner
Some thoughts on a couple of films I caught in Toronto … Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,