Tag: Montréal
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What I’ve Been Reading Lately
Loves, I haven’t written in a while. I know. There you are, sitting around waiting patiently, in quiet desperation, for me to tell you what to read. And here I am, barely able to make it through a page before I have to get up out of my chair and rush with great urgency to…
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What I’ve Been Reading Lately
Loves, it’s the end of 2017. That’s right. We did it! (as my toddler says). We walked through this year and we came out unscathed. But we’re still here, we’re still fighting the power, and if you (like me) are someone who has dedicated yourself to words and reading them, and sometimes even stringing them…
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The 18th Edition of Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Festival
The sun is shining, the snow has melted, and Blue Metropolis just announced their 2016 program. Spring has come to Montreal! For those not familiar, Blue Met is the annual literary festival of the Blue Metropolis Foundation, which has been bringing people together in Montreal since 1997 to promote reading, writing, and education, focusing on…
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“Colours of Jazz” and Immigration in the 1920’s
It is interesting the way stories about art are told. In fact, I will just wallow in my obtuseness for a moment and say that, while I like to look at pretty things (and sometimes not-so-pretty-but-sort-of-interesting things), the stories are what interest me the most. My tendency at exhibits is to ogle the writing on the…
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RIDM Screening 122: Atalaku
Directed by Dieudo Hammadi, Atalaku is set during the latest elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1422763033/ Here’s a quick timeline: 1960: Patrice Lumumba becomes the first Prime Minister of the newly independent Republic of Congo (the one that becomes the DRC, not the other one). He is deposed by the president, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, and…
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RIDM Screening 84: A jamais, pour toujours
Confession: I am basically posting this for good form, because it is a documentary that I saw, and thus feel obligated to include it in the series. (Plus, duh, I like bragging about all these awesome films I’m seeing. Aren’t you tempted to move to Montreal now so you can watch great documentaries and go…
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RIDM Screening 69: Ayiti Toma
Focusing on foreign aid (before and after the earthquake), the slave trade and colonialism, and vodou in Haiti, this documentary provides a far-reaching scope of a complex society. If there is one flaw the film suffered from it was the ambitious attempt to cover everything. How can you not try to cover everything when you’re…
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RIDM Screening 30: The Square
This was my first screening so far of the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal and I can safely say that it was fantastic way to start. First, a word on the festival: Since 1998, the RIDM has been bringing filmmakers from Quebec, and from around the world, to the city of Montreal for about a…
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