Watching King Vidor’s delightful 1928 silent comedy THE PATSY. 🎥
Watching George Cukor’s 1935 film SYLVIA SCARLETT with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant on TCM. 🎥
Diving into the wonderful collection of films that is part of the Animation Festival of Halifax which is now streaming.
Watching Joyce Chopra’s 1985 film SMOOTH TALK on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
It’s National Canadian Film Day and there are great films streaming for free and to rent. Here are some I would recommend: STORIES WE TELL, WEREWOLF, MURMUR, NINTH FLOOR, A COLONY, WINDOW HORSES, THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN, ANTIGONE, and so much more. 🇨🇦🎥
Watching Claire Denis’ 1996 film NENETTE ET BONI again on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Watching Věra Chytilová’s 1987 teen horror film WOLF’S HOLE on The Criterion Channel. 🍿
Watching the 1968 documentary THE QUEEN directed by Frank Simon on Netflix. 🎥
Watching Agnès Varda’s colourful and brilliant LE BONHEUR from 1965 again on The Criterion Channel. 🎥🌻
Watching the 1985 Japanese film TAMPOPO directed by Juzo Itami for the first time and feeling a bit hungry. 🎥🍜
Watching Nelly Kaplan’s 1991 film THE PLEASURE OF LOVE on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Best new-to-me March 2021: 24 CITY, FOGO, THE 39 STEPS, BEGINNING, CORPUS CHRISTI, THE TREE HOUSE, PITY, ROSE PLAYS JULIE, ECHO, SHIVA BABY, AGAIN ONCE AGAIN.
My final film for March Around the World is AGAIN ONCE AGAIN directed by Romina Paula from Argentina on MUBI. 🎥 🇦🇷
Today continuing my March Around the World by stopping in Kenya with the 2018 film RAFIKI directed by Wanuri Kahiu. 🎥 🇰🇪
Continuing my March Around the World by watching the 2005 film THE BLOODETTES from Cameroon directed by Jean-Pierre Bekolo on The Criterion Channel. 🎥 🇨🇲
Watching SHIVA BABY directed by Emma Seligman as part of the programming for Women Making Waves this year. #WMW2021
Watching a film from Afghanistan from 2019 on my March Around the World – THE ORPHANAGE directed by Shahrbanoo Sadat on MUBI. 🎥 🇦🇫
Making a stop in Finland as I March Around the World with Aki Kaurismäki’s 1994 musical documentary LENINGRAD COWBOYS: TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW on the Criterion Channel. 🎥 🇫🇮
Going to Iceland on my March Around the World today with ECHO directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson. 🎥 🇮🇸
Watching the 2010 film DISSOLUTION directed by Nina Menkes on my March Around the World with a stop in Israel. 🎥 🇮🇱
Looking forward to watching ROSE PLAYS JULIE directed by Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy through Carbon Arc’s online screening. Lawlor and Molloy always make thought provoking films that stay with me. 🎥
Watching a film from Guatemala on my March Around the World with the 2015 film IXCANUL directed by Jayro Bustamante. 🎥🇬🇹
Today I’m watching the 2008 film TREELESS MOUNTAIN directed by So Yong Kim from South Korea on my March Around the World. 🎥🇰🇷
Watching a film from Romanian director Cristi Puiu from 2020 – MALMKROG on my March Around the World today. 🎥🇷🇴
Watching the Bolivian documentary film WOMEN OF THE MINE from 2014 directed by Malena Bystrowicz and Loreley Unamuno as part of March Around the World. 🎥 🇧🇴