Articles by Kathleen Olmstead

Gun Shy Dito Tsintsadze

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

When I moved to Toronto, my older sister went out of her way to show me the cultured sights of the big city. On her list was a visit to the...

Talking Picture Manoel De Oliveira

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

A Talking Picture starts off well enough, with a mother and daughter sailing from Lisbon on a cruise to Bombay. The mother, a history profe...

Nancy Savoca

Nancy Savoca

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There's nothing particularly ground-breaking about this film but I doubt if that's the point. Over the past year there have been countless...

Unni Straume

Unni Straume

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There's a lot to admire about this film — the acting is strong, it has a beautiful design — but it's weighed down by a clunky script and me...

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Although Spirited Away doesn't have the same earnest quality of Princess Mononoke, Miyazaki has created another elaborate and haunting film...

Mariages Film

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

There are two worlds that exist simultaneously in "Mariages." The world of women who remain close to home and the earth, men who are absent...

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Jill Sprecher

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

First of all, we should clear matters up – these conversations are about more than one thing. As in any discussion, there are the words we...

Ken Loach

Ken Loach

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Ken Loach is a master of presenting the struggles of the world in the lives of a few. Politics, class struggle intertwined with love and ha...