After finding an old high school yearbook at a Value Village, four friends become intrigued with the members of that school’s senior class. Judging the hairstyles and attire of the late 80’s, Michael, Clay, Sam and Andrew spend the next few years choosing their favourite girls and guys from the grad photos, making some…
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Women With Cows – Peter Gerdehag, Sweden
This Swedish documentary introduces us to elderly sisters, Britt and Inger. The pair own roughly a dozen cows on the run-down dairy farm where they grew up. Older sister Britt lives and works there even still, loving the time she spends with her animals, despite the toll years of milking have taken on her…
Outing – Sebastian Meise and Thomas Reider, Austria
We open on a scene from a family home movie – a cute little boy and his young brother mugging for the camera as their mother films and their father looks on. It’s as normal and immediately endearing as any home movie can be. Flash forward in time and that same little boy now…
Oma & Bella – Alexa Karolinski, Germany/USA
Oma & Bella points a camera into the lives of two Holocaust survivors who remained in Germany after WWII. Living together now in Berlin, their friendship has survived several decades, and has an enviable strength due to their shared memories and love of cooking. For both women, food – and the preparation of food…
The Job – Didier Cros, France
In a world where unemployment rates climb as the global economy falls, a person’s sense of self-worth can begin to come more about whether they have a job, or not, rather than what that job may actually entail. Being gainfully employed is less about being happy in life, and more about the ability to…
My Week With Marilyn: A Non-Review
I really have no desire to review this film – there’s nothing I could say that hasn’t been said already a thousand times over. I feel the need, instead, to convey my personal experience while watching the movie, and what it meant to me. My love affair with Marilyn Monroe began years and years ago,…
Sue’s Top Flick Picks of 2011
Now that 2011 is done and gone, and 2012 is finally upon us, I thought I’d take a bit of time to go through the plethora of flicks I saw in theatres throughout the course of the year. I dug out as many ticket stubs as I could find – yes, I keep them…I am…
The Mind Reels 