Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
A Cop Movie (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
There has never been a less auspicious time to make a “cop movie.” As scrutiny abounds from both within (content warnings on streaming services) and externally (social media) towards the past output of media producers, also suspect are the bevy of films and series that glamorize law enforcement, or see the police as uncomplicated arbiters of justice. Of course, last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests initiated all kinds of brave new thinking about a potential world devoid of cops. Like the Western genre, perhaps all police thrillers in future will be revisionist ones. Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ new Netflix-produced quasi-documentary, A Cop Movie, has thus arrived right on cue. – David K. (full review)
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A Cop Movie (Alonso Ruizpalacios)
There has never been a less auspicious time to make a “cop movie.” As scrutiny abounds from both within (content warnings on streaming services) and externally (social media) towards the past output of media producers, also suspect are the bevy of films and series that glamorize law enforcement, or see the police as uncomplicated arbiters of justice. Of course, last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests initiated all kinds of brave new thinking about a potential world devoid of cops. Like the Western genre, perhaps all police thrillers in future will be revisionist ones. Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ new Netflix-produced quasi-documentary, A Cop Movie, has thus arrived right on cue. – David K. (full review)
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- 11/5/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Anyone who has attended any public events in Canada in recent years will likely be familiar with the practice of land acknowledgement: a solemn formal statement, recited before sports matches, film festival screenings or simple school assemblies, that historically contextualizes the very land on which the crowd is gathered, and admits a debt to the Indigenous people who first owned it.
Depending on the delivery, it can sound like a formality, said and heard so routinely that it no longer prompts a pause for thought. That is, until you consider that it’s only been 30 years since the Oka Crisis, a violent 78-day land dispute between the Mohawk community and the predominantly white government of Oka, Quebec — effectively pitting, with painful symbolic precision, a traditional burial ground against an expanding golf course. The wound is still recent and raw. Drawing on her own childhood experience of the 1990 events, Mohawk writer-director Tracey Deer’s powerful,...
Depending on the delivery, it can sound like a formality, said and heard so routinely that it no longer prompts a pause for thought. That is, until you consider that it’s only been 30 years since the Oka Crisis, a violent 78-day land dispute between the Mohawk community and the predominantly white government of Oka, Quebec — effectively pitting, with painful symbolic precision, a traditional burial ground against an expanding golf course. The wound is still recent and raw. Drawing on her own childhood experience of the 1990 events, Mohawk writer-director Tracey Deer’s powerful,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has released this year’s list of 10 Screenwriters to Watch, and a conversation with the honorees is to be hosted virtually by the Mill Valley Film Festival on Oct. 13.
The annual 10 to Watch program celebrates breakthrough screenwriters, actors, directors, comics, animators, producers and cinematographers, and registration for the virtual conversation with 2020’s selected screenwriters is available now. Many of this year’s honorees are already gaining accolades for their films. Variety executive editor Steven Gaydos called the 2020 selections “emblematic of what is needed from filmmakers in this unsettled and challenging time. These screenwriters are taking on the big issues confronting the world, but they’re also making sure their stories are grounded in empathy for their widely diverse, wildly original characters.”
The class of of 2020’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch comprise eight solo honorees and two pairs serving as the screenwriters for their respective films. Interviews with those being honored...
The annual 10 to Watch program celebrates breakthrough screenwriters, actors, directors, comics, animators, producers and cinematographers, and registration for the virtual conversation with 2020’s selected screenwriters is available now. Many of this year’s honorees are already gaining accolades for their films. Variety executive editor Steven Gaydos called the 2020 selections “emblematic of what is needed from filmmakers in this unsettled and challenging time. These screenwriters are taking on the big issues confronting the world, but they’re also making sure their stories are grounded in empathy for their widely diverse, wildly original characters.”
The class of of 2020’s 10 Screenwriters to Watch comprise eight solo honorees and two pairs serving as the screenwriters for their respective films. Interviews with those being honored...
- 9/24/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
There’s a big difference beyond adaptation and assimilation. One is additive. The other is subtractive. One deals in compromise with two sides adjusting their perspectives to create a mutual path forward. The other declares a status quo and works towards enforcing it through whatever oppressive means are necessary. To not understand the crucial conflict that exists between those terms is therefore very rarely a matter of ignorance. It’s instead the by-product of entitlement. To expect another human being to adapt to your idea of “normalcy” via language, culture, religion, etc. is to automatically embrace the role of aggressor because you never sacrificed your own towards that same goal. You just determined your identity was “normal.” Possessing that kind of power means you can never also be the victim.
This is why the damage done by colonizers will never disappear as long as those same colonizers remain in control...
This is why the damage done by colonizers will never disappear as long as those same colonizers remain in control...
- 9/13/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Festival line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women.
Beans director Tracey Deer will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
Deer joins the previously announced roster of honourees ahead of the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on September 15.
The award, presented by L’Oréal Paris and supported by MGM, champions a woman who is “an emerging talent making groundbreaking strides in the industry” and is presented in the spirit of Toronto native, trailblazer and United Artists co-founder Mary Pickford.
This year’s TIFF Line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women, and 49% of films directed,...
Beans director Tracey Deer will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
Deer joins the previously announced roster of honourees ahead of the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on September 15.
The award, presented by L’Oréal Paris and supported by MGM, champions a woman who is “an emerging talent making groundbreaking strides in the industry” and is presented in the spirit of Toronto native, trailblazer and United Artists co-founder Mary Pickford.
This year’s TIFF Line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women, and 49% of films directed,...
- 8/24/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Festival line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women.
Beans director Tracey Deer will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
Deer joins the previously announced roster of honourees ahead of the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on September 15.
The award, presented by L’Oréal Paris and supported by MGM, champions a woman who is “an emerging talent making groundbreaking strides in the industry” and is presented in the spirit of Toronto native, trailblazer and United Artists co-founder Mary Pickford.
This year’s TIFF Line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women, and 49% of films directed,...
Beans director Tracey Deer will receive the TIFF Emerging Talent Award during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) next month.
Deer joins the previously announced roster of honourees ahead of the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on September 15.
The award, presented by L’Oréal Paris and supported by MGM, champions a woman who is “an emerging talent making groundbreaking strides in the industry” and is presented in the spirit of Toronto native, trailblazer and United Artists co-founder Mary Pickford.
This year’s TIFF Line-up features 43% films directed, co-directed, or created by women, and 49% of films directed,...
- 8/24/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Montreal sales agent also adds The Vinland Club to the roster.
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has picked up worldwide sales rights excluding Canada to Tracey Deer’s feature debut Beans, which will premiere in TIFF Next Wave Discovery section next month.
Beans is inspired by true events and centres on a young Mohawk girl who comes of age during the 1990 Oka Crisis armed stand-off over land rights.
Straddling childhood and adolescence, the youngster struggles to build her own identity amid the chaos of the uprising and a world that views her as different.
“Beans is a very timely film,” said WaZabi...
Montreal-based WaZabi Films has picked up worldwide sales rights excluding Canada to Tracey Deer’s feature debut Beans, which will premiere in TIFF Next Wave Discovery section next month.
Beans is inspired by true events and centres on a young Mohawk girl who comes of age during the 1990 Oka Crisis armed stand-off over land rights.
Straddling childhood and adolescence, the youngster struggles to build her own identity amid the chaos of the uprising and a world that views her as different.
“Beans is a very timely film,” said WaZabi...
- 8/20/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
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