The documentary parody series Documentary Now! returns for a fourth season to send up My Octopus Teacher, Agnès Varda, and the BBC.
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Artist JR follows-up his Oscar nominated Agnès Varda collaboration Faces Places with Paper & Glue, which is well worth viewing.
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Agnès Varda celebrated the beauty of the marginalized, turning her lens on the elderly, indigent, immigrants, and people of colour. Most of all, she focussed on women.
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Criterion Channel's collections of films about Black experiences have a number of docs and hybrids worth exploring, including Symbiopsychtaxiplasm and Urban Rashomon.
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When this issue was planned, COVID-19 was in the distance, nothing but a series of news reports from Asia. For a month, I was corresponding with writers and conducting interviews from France,
Keep ReadingA bleary-eyed Dorothy Woodend reports on her binge-watching from the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival.
Keep ReadingVarda By Agnès (France, 115 min.) Dir. Agnès Varda Programme: Special Events (Canadian Premiere) Agnès Varda’s final film is a bittersweet farewell. It’s difficult to avoid watching Varda By Agnès, which premiered earlier
Keep ReadingThessaloniki Documentary Film Festival's 2018 edition featured an impressive Carte Blanche by Sara Driver, mainly of experimental films from the US of the 1960s, and a tribute to Agnès Varda.
Keep ReadingFaces Places (Visages villages) (France, 90 min.) Dir. Agnès Varda, JR Programme: Masters (Canadian Premiere) Agnès Varda, effervescent photographer and iconic filmmaker (The Beaches of Agnes, The Gleaners and I ;
Keep ReadingMaison du Bonheur (Canada, 64 min.) Dir. Sofia Bohdanowicz Programme: World Showcase (North American Premiere) Taking a trip to Paris, director Sofia Bohdanowicz visits with Juliane Sellam, the grandmother of a
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