Montreal Film Festival

image+nation, the online portion, ended yesterday, but here is one more review to help tide you over until next fall’s edition. The documentary, directed by Sian A. Williams and Harri Shanahan, brings out into the light the punk-loving lesbian subculture in 1980s London. All here is rather eye opening as Continue Reading

The 2021 edition of the Forum RIDM marked the return of in-person activities after a long absence. At the Cinémathèque québécoise and the Centre Pierre-Péladeau, many of you converged to celebrate documentary and its community with us!  Through its workshops, discussions and networking opportunities, the RIDM Forum has, once again, established Continue Reading

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the most effective. Here they came up with the idea to put rubber ducks in a glacier in Greenland as an experiment on climate change. Oh year, the “they” is NASA. For the past decade NASA has been searching for 90 small yellow rubber ducks. Continue Reading

Film is a beautiful thing when it gives voice to the typically voiceless and educates while entertaining. Check all three of those important boxes with Michael Sligman (first film, producer on RuPaul’s Drag Race) and Jennifer Tiexiera’s (first film but experienced film editor) documentary, P.S. Burn This Letter Please. The Continue Reading

Jump, Darling features Cloris Leachman’s final starring performance. Let that sink in a while. As you get older eras (of every kind) begin to disappear right before your eyes. This is one of them. All we have left of comedic actresses of a certain age is Betty White. It is Continue Reading