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Moonbeam Over Marin: “California Uber Alles” and Jerry Brown
by Chris Randle During my transition from a teenager who played competitive Magic: The Gathering to a teenager with dubious facial piercings, I rode the subway downtown to a cavernous vintage store on Queen Street West. The scruffy nave of … Continue reading
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Redemption (2010), Directed by Katie Wolfe, Written by Tim Balme, Renae Maihi & Katie Wolfe, Based on a short story by Phil Kawana
By Margaux Williamson
(I went to a program of shorts called “Moonshine” at the ImagineNative Film Festival with my friend Kerry Barber who was in town from the Yukon. We sat in the middle of the seats at the Jewish Community Centre. The program was a mix of funny and serious. This movie was on the serious side. Something the filmmaker said in the Q&A afterwards stuck with me for awhile.)
Two older Maoris teenagers sit on a couch [..]
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Mansfield Park (1999) – Written and Directed by Patricia Rozema, Based on Jane Austen’s novel
By Margaux Williamson
(I was having a great leisurely day and I went to the video store wanting something familiar and expensive. I picked out Mansfield Park, a movie by Patricia Rozema based on the Jane Austen book of the same name. The characters in Jane Austen’s work spend most of their time having complicated thoughts about intellect, about how to judge others and about their own emotions (how to have them, how to control them) [..]
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Backyard (1984) – directed by Ross McElwee, starring Ross McElwee and Dr. Ross McElwee
by Margaux Williamson
(I had the south on my brain – I felt like sitting in the south, outside, for a bit. I thought of Ross McElwee, who made the pretty great “Sherman’s March”. I poked around the library and found another movie of his whose title also refers to a specific location in the south,“Backyard”. )
Ross McElwee, returning from a northern college, is back at the family home in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has brought his moving picture camera with him [...]
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