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Watch me: movie reviews with Cathi Bond

Watch Me: Lena Dunham's fantastic breakout film Tiny Furniture

April 14, 2012
| Cathi Bond reviews Lena Dunham's film Tiny Furniture in anticipation of the new HBO series, "Girls." Tiny Furniture is an art house comedy you can't afford to miss.

3:53 minutes (5.37 MB)
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Carole Pope: The return of the diva

Landfall album cover

Carole Pope has long been the grande dame of the Canadian art rock scene. With Rough Trade, she and writing partner Kevan Staples ushered in a riotous mix of glam, glitter, unspeakably racy (for the time) onstage lesbian sexuality and a certain delicious sense of intellectual irony. Who else would have called their record albums Avoid Freud and For Those Who Jung/Young?

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Watch me: movie reviews with Cathi Bond

Watch Me: French Immersion and Starbuck

March 5, 2012
| Cathi Bond reviews Starbuck and French Immersion, two very funny Canadian flicks that show there's no place like home.

4:06 minutes (5.68 MB)

Film review: Neverbloomers: The Search for Grownuphood

Montreal filmmaker Sharon Hyman asks questions about growing up in her new film.
Montreal filmmaker Sharon Hyman explores what it means to grow up in her new film, Neverbloomers.

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Have I grown up yet? 'Neverbloomers' explores adulthood

Montreal filmmaker Sharon Hyman asks questions about growing up in her new  film.

Montreal filmmaker Sharon Hyman's autobiographical documentary Neverbloomers: The Search for Grownuphood is an oddly compelling piece of work about a youngish woman who finds herself consumed by a series of troubling questions: "I'm 40, why haven't I grown up yet?" "What is grown-up?" "What's a real job?" "What constitutes success?" "Do you have to be married to be happy?" "Where do grown-ups live?" "How many children should you have in order to be grown-up?"

Then Hyman picks up her camera and begins a video odyssey to find the answers. These are the director's philosophical dilemmas, the matters that nag her, as she finds herself walking up and over the top of the mountain, down the other side, into the land of middle age.

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Migrating Landscapes exhibit opens in Toronto's Brookfield Place

Chess set of Toronto by Amber Baechler and Mark Baechler. Photo: Theo Skudra/Tom Glass Pictures

Migrating Landscapes was inspired by the individual experiences of architects Johanna Hurme (born in Finland), her business partner Sasa Radulovic (born in the former Yugoslavia) and colleague Jae-Sung Chon (born in South Korea), collectively known as the Migrating Landscapes Organizer or MLO. All three are first-generation immigrants, who, like most new Canadians, had unsettling encounters with the very different Canadian landscape and building forms as they settled into their new country.

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