films

Marie Curie, Patty Hearst, Agnès Varda at Toronto International Film Festival

October 10, 2019 By Bill Meyer

She’s the only woman who won the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields—physics and chemistry. And now she's the subject of the first biopic by Iranian-born director, Marjane Satrapi.

‘Shusenjo’: The WWII ‘comfort women’ issue receives a startling documentary film treatment

October 8, 2019 By Cathy Deppe

To silence women and deny abuses and atrocities against them is unacceptable and unsupportable.

‘Joker’ exposes the broken class system that creates its own monsters

October 4, 2019 By Chauncey K. Robinson

“Kill the rich– a new movement?” - Joker

Biopics on Helen Reddy and Jean Seberg at TIFF: Part 1

October 4, 2019 By Bill Meyer

The story of this courageous woman has finally reached the big screen where her commitment to peace and justice will now be appreciated by a world audience.

‘Martin Eden’ and ‘1982’ at Toronto International Film Festival

October 2, 2019 By Bill Meyer

Another award winner at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden, based on the 1909 novel by famed American socialist writer Jack London.