The 9th Annual Calgary Underground Film Festival aka CUFF kicks off Monday April 16, 2012 at 7pm with the Screening of the American film God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait, 2011, USA). CUFF is a not-for-profit film festival that specializes in bringing contemporary films to Calgary that are not regularly screened outside the festival circuit and [...]
Tags: #ArtFilm, #cinema, #ExperimentalFilm, #Festival, #independentfilm, Calgary, CUFF, film, Lars Von Trier, Norway, Scandinavian Cinema
(Photo above of Kim Flanagan, Annia B., Model and Blogger; Yvonne Jeffery, HERS Magazine Editor; Cara Fullerton, Global News Anchor; Dana Kerford, Girl Power; Cat Oshenak, Photographer & Founder of I’ve Been Bullied Campaign.) This morning was the second screening of the film MissRepresentation I have attended in Calgary. Todays screening was put on my Church My [...]
Tags: America, Calgary, Canada, Chruch My Style, Feminism, film, Iran, Kim Flanagan, MissRepresentation
This Must Be The Place (2011, Paolo Sorrentino) stars Sean Penn as the character Cheyenne, a retired rock star (mix between Edward Scissorhands and Robert Smith), who lives in the UK with his wife (Frances McDermond) and Step-daughter (Eve Hewson). Cheyenne struggles with his guilt, and deciders to go visit his father who passed away, [...]
Tags: #Festival, Auschwitz, Cheyenne, Coen Bros., Edward Scissorhands, film, Frances McDermond, Garden State, Ghost Worl, Nazi, Paolo Sorrentino, Robert Smith, Sean Penn, Sundance
Miss Representation (2011, USA) is a documentary film about how the American Media misrepresents women. The screening tonight was hosted by the Calgary Sexual Health Centre, and had a spectacular audience turn out. The screening SOLD OUT and had a wait list, in the Globe Cinema downtown Calgary, on a -30*C Wednesday night. (Shocking) The [...]
Tags: #Festival, Calgary, Dawn Johnston, Feminism, film, GlobeCinema, MissRepresentation, Oprah, OWN, Review, Sarah Ivany, Shelley Youngblut, Sundance, yyc
