(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
If you blended Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925), Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933), some Busby Berkeley choreography, The Hollywood Review of 1929 (Charles Reisner), the class and sophistication of Casablanca, Citizen Kane (Orson Wells, 1941), and Celebrity (Woody Allen, 1998) you would most definitely end up with The Artist (Michael Hazanavicus, 2011). I feel [...]
Tags: #Festival, Bernice Bejo, Black and White, Cannes, film, Jean Dujardin, Silent film, Talkies, The Artist
