Category: rita cannon

Everyone knows the story: In the 19th century, a young girl is both blind and deaf. She grows up a prisoner of her own disability, unable to communicate, lashing out violently whenever she’s upset or afraid (which is often). Luckily,...

Victor Levin’s wispy romance 5 to 7 positions itself as a film about The One That Got Away, about a great love that can sadly never come to fruition. It’s plastered wall to wall with traditional signifiers of romance –...

Mary Dore’s documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, which chronicles the birth of the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s, comes at a particularly contentious time for the word “feminist.” When Beyoncé performed at the VMAs with “FEMINIST” behind...

Has any other film had as complicated as rollout as Ned Benson’s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby? Originally conceived as two separate films that could either stand alone or be seen as a double feature, Benson’s drama about about a...