Made in Dagenham — 1More Podcast Episode 7b
The film is as much about the relationships between these women and how they are ennobled and encouraged by one another as it is about their political struggles.
The film is as much about the relationships between these women and how they are ennobled and encouraged by one another as it is about their political struggles.
In Part II of our Toronto International Film Festival wrap up, Cindy and I discuss two political films--John Sayles's Amigo and Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men--becoming a victim of your own success, and whether or not its fair to compare a director's films to his previous work instead of the rest of the playing field.
In Part I of our Toronto International Film Festival Wrap for 2010, Cynthia L. Morefield discusses space, grief, transformation, her favorite film of the festival and two films that have stuck in her memory. Today's primary focus is on the Sophie Fiennes documentary of Anselm Kiefer's work, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow.
Smart, funny, and unexpectedly sweet, Will Gluck's Easy A is the most pleasant surprise of my film year, a high school comedy with wit rather than snark, charm rather vulgarity, and heart rather than hormones.
Botto plays Leo, a Spanish lawyer with a wife, child, and healthy masculine disgust at all things homosexual. When his wife dies of a seizure and he can't bring himself to answer his daughter's pleas for a surrogate mom, he gradually begins dressing as the deceased mom to help the child cope.
Stephen Frears's Tamara Drewe is essentially a Restoration sex comedy set in the English countryside.
So The Illusionist himself could be seen as a symbol of the traditional animator seeing his (or her) craft become a lost art.
I was glad that I saw Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods and Men on the same day of the Toronto International Film Festival in which I saw Miral. The films, perhaps,… Continue reading "Of Gods and Men (Beauvois, 2010)"
I will cop to saying that Ishiguro is on my short list of greatest living writers in English and that Remains of the Day (also based on an Ishiguro novel) is one of my two or three all time favorite novel to film adaptations, so I'm not without baggage of my own in this debate.