Frameline: Recent Episodes
Frameline
For more than two decades, Frameline continues with a weekly survey of the latest in film, art, culture & all of its politics. Live banter, interviews & more by veteran film critic/broadcasters Barbara Goslawski and Courtney Small. With roots at CKLN 88.1 FM and notable past hosts such as Toronto International Film Festival’s Artistic Director, Cameron Bailey, and internationally renowned filmmaker Bruce La Bruce, listeners can now tune in live, every Thursday, 6pm EST at RadioRegent.com.
Reviews: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story; Le Mans 55: The Unauthorized Investigation; A Mother Apart; Mexican Dream; The Day Iceland Stood Still; Rouge; Wilfred Buck; Black Box Diaries.
Reviews: In the Summers; Renias; A Real Pain; Between the Temples; In the Land of Brothers; Little Death; As We Speak; Soundtrack to a Coup D'etat; Luther: Never Too Much; Desire Lines; Black Box Diaries; Nocturnes; Kidnapping Inc.
Reviews: Exhibiting Forgiveness; Sujo; Tendaberry; Daughters; Kneecap; Thelma; Sebastian; Agent of Happiness; Union; Didi; Brief History of Family.
Reviews:
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Pigeon Tunnel
Anatomy of a Fall
Butcher's Crossing
Reviews: Anatomy of a Fall; Monster; The Zone of Interest; Evil Does Not Exist; Origin; Solitude; The Holdovers; A Difficult Year; Sisterhood; Toll; Death of a Whistleblower; Seagrass; Solo.
Reviews: The Teacher's Lounge, Perfect Days, Limbo, Shame on Dry Land, I Don't Know Who You Are, Homecoming, Songs of Earth, Summer Qamp, I Am Sirat, Sorry/Not Sorry, Bye Bye Tiberias, Copa 71
Reviews of films from Short Cuts Programmes: Motherland; Express; Redlight; Xie Xie Ollie; Bloom; Aphasia; Meteor; Modern Goose.
Reviews: Leilani's Fortune, This Place, Something You Said Last Night, House of Tulip, Scaring Women at Night, Kokomo City, Is There Anybody Out There?
Reviews: A Still Small Voice; Smoke Sauna Sisterhood; You Can Go Now; Theatre of Violence; Pure Unknown; Praying for Armageddon; Invisibility Beauty; July Talk: Love Lives Here.
Reviews; Soviet Barbara, the Story of Ragnar Kjartansson in Moscow; A Wolfpack Named Ernesto; Samuel and the Light; Much Ado About Dying; The Mountains; Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc; The Castle; Someone Lives Here; Fauna; After the Bridge; The Only Doctor .
Reviews: Showing Up, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Somebody Somewhere, Rain Dogs
Reviews: A Thousand and One; Cocaine Bear; Rye Lane; Shrinking; Ted Lasso: Season 3; 88.
Reviews: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Return to Seoul, Kingston Canadian Film Festival (KCFF23), Shotgun Wedding, Poker Face
Reviews of films at 2023 Toronto Black Film Festival: Aisha; 1960; Dr West's Fervor; Woman Meets Girl; The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art and Times of David Hammons.
A Thousand and One; All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt; Rye Lane; You Hurt My Feelings; Scrapper; Shayda; Theater Camp; The Eternal Memory; Invisible Beauty; Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project; Kokomo City; The Stroll.
Infinity Pool; Joyland; Magazine Dreams; Is There Anybody Out There; King Coal; Against the Tide; Murder in Big Horn; Bad Press; Smokes Sauna Sisterhood; Polite Society; Little Richard: I Am Everything.
Reviews: Relax, I’m From the Future; Control; The Inhuman; Follow Her; The Devil Comes at Night; Cult Hero; Spark; Vicinal; Diaspora.
Reviews of film from the 2022 Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival: Riceboy Sleeps; Mama Boy; All That Breathes; Bad Axe; Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence; The Grizzlie Truth
Reviews: Decision to Leave; The Banshees of Inisherin Reviews of Rendezvous with Madness Festival titles: My Two Voices; Gemmel and Tim; Midwaste; I Didn't See You There
Reviews: How to Blow Up a Pipeline; Return to Seoul; Hawa; Shimoni; Saint Omer; Walk Up; The Gravity; Bruiser; All the Beauty and the Bloodshed; Good Night Oppy; Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot; Quiet Minds Silent Streets; Casa Susanna.
Reviews; The Woman King; Decision to Leave; Glass Onion; Women Talking; The Fabelmans; Something You Said Last Night; Brother; The Eternal Daughter; Until Branches Bend; Chevalier; I Like Movies.
Reviews; Moonage Daydream; Triangle of Sadness; Scaring Women at Night; It's What Each Person Needs; N’xaxaitkw; Baba; Diaspora; The Flying Sailor.
Reviews of films showing in Future of Film Showcase 2022: Quickening; Abuela; Johnny Crow; Bump; Little Sky; Chanson our le nouveau monde (Song for the New World).
Reviews of films at Inside Out LGBTQ+ Festival 2022: Nana's Boys; Out in the Ring; Tramps!; Unidentified Objects; Compulsus.
Hot Docs 2022, Part 2, reviews: Million Dollar Pigeons; The Thief Collector; Il Posto; Silent Beauty; This House; Sam Now; Meeting Point; Batata; Our Memory Belongs to Us; Category: Woman; Hunting in Packs; A Marble Travelogue; All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars
Reviews: Gabor; My Old School; Midwives; African Moot; Navalny; Deconstructing Karen; Framing Agnes; I Didn’t See You There; Aftershock; Fire of Love; Scrap.
Reviews: The Last Mark (at Canadian Film Fest); The Batman; Kimi; Joe vs Carole; Lizzo's Watch Out For The Big Grrrls
Reviews: Canadian Film Fest films (Ashgrove, Tehranto); Learn to Swim Discussion/reviews of Oscar nominated films: CODA, Licorice Pizza
Framing Agnes, My Old School, Fresh, Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, Aftershock, The Janes, Midwives, Free Chol Soo Lee, The Territory, I Didn't See You There, Cha Cha Real Smooth
Reviews of films at Sundance 2022, part 1: We Nee To Talk About Cosby; TikTok, Boom; Emergency; Nanny; All That Breathes; We Met in Virtual Reality; Mija; When You Finish Saving The World; The Exiles; Lucy and Desi
Highlights: Reel Asian Film Festival: Beyond The Infinite 2 Minutes; Three Sisters; 7 Days; Try Harder!; Taipei Suicide; Together; With Love From Munera Blood in The Snow Festival: Vicious Fun; Peppergrass; Flee The Light; The Family
Reviews: Rendezvous with Madness films (Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy; Anny; North By Current; Luginsky; Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche); The Velvet Underground; Wife of A Spy.
Reviews: The Survivor; The Guilty; Mothering Sunday; Encounters; Murina; The Rescue; Compartment no 6; Montana Story; Dashcam; Beba
Reviews: The Power of The Dog; Petite Maman; Learn To Swim; Flee; Quickening; Dug Dug; The Middle Man
Attica (Mention only) Reviews of feature films at TIFF 21: Night Raiders; Wildhood; Scarborough; Oscar Peterson: Black and White Reviews of Short Cuts: Together; DEFUND; Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics; Nuisance Bear; Angakusajaujuq - The Shaman's Apprentice Mention: Celebrate Alanis programme
Reviews: Future of Film Showcase (Sophie and Jacob; Kajanaqtuq; Faraway; Parlour Palm,; My Head Aches When I Look Too Long); Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain; Black Widow
Reviews: Summer of Soul (Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised); In The Heights; The Boss Baby 2: Family Business; Lupin
Reviews: Bangla Surf Girls; The Spokeswoman; Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution and Islam; Threshold; One of Ours; Gaucho Americano; Grey Roads; Any Given Day; Zo Reken; School of Hope.
Reviews of films playing at Hot Docs 2021: Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy; Nothing But The Sun; Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche; The Man Who Paints Water Drops; La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla; Lady Buds; Someone Like Me; Dead Man's Switch: A Crypto Mystery; Faya Dayi
Reviews of Minari; Raya and the Last Dragon; The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run; Judas and the Black Messiah.
Reviews of some of the films showing at the TIFF Next Wave Festival 2021: Death of Nintendo; Tahara; Beans; Unapologetic; Summertime.
Films reviewed from Blood in the Snow Film Festival 2020: Bleed With Me; Shall We Play; Come True; The Return New Release reviewed: Jimmy Carter Rock and Roll President
Reviews of the following films screening at film festivals in Oct 2020: Coral Ghosts (Planet in Focus FF); Judy Versus Capitalism, The Marriage Project (Rendezvous With Madness Festival); Breaking Bread, Shared Legacies: The African American Jewish Civil Rights Alliance (Toronto Jewish FF); Shadow of Dumont (ImagineNATIVE Festival)
Interview: Charles Officer, Director of Akilla's Escape Reviews: Nomadland; Violation; Beans; One Night in Miami; Underplayed; The Way I See It; MLK/FBI; The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel; American Utopia; Pieces of A Woman; Concrete Cowboy; Limbo
In this episode we review TIFF Short Cuts selections: The Archivists; In Sudden Darkness; Black Bodies; The Price of Cheap Rent; David; Found Me; 4 North A; Still Processing; Sinking Ship; Benjamin, Benny, Ben; As Spring Comes, Shooting Star. We also review the film No Ordinary Man
Reviews: Dark City Beneath The Beat; Mayor; #Blessed; Coded Bias ; Bulletproof; They Call Me Dr. Miami; Lessons Of Love; Stateless Documentary; The Painter And The Thief
Reviews; Greed; Sorry We Missed You Goethe Institute Spy Thriller Series: review of Blame Game TIFF Cinematheque Robert Bresson Retrospective: focus on A Man Escaped and Pickpocket
We review Seberg, The Jesus Rolls, Disappearance at Clifton Hill, and discuss Ford v. Ferrari which is now available on Blu-ray/DVD.
Reviews: Portrait of a Lady on Fire; They Gotta Have Us; Horror Noire; Harriet; The Last Black Man in San Francisco
We talk TIFF Next Wave 2020 with an interview with programme manager Steph Guthrie and reviews of CRSHD, Angelfish, Do Turtles Swim in Maple Syrup? No Crying at the Dinner Table and Pick. We also chat with Steve Gravestock about his book A History of Icelandic Film.
Reviews of films in the Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Gay Chorus Deep South; Born in Evin; I Am Not Alone; On The President's Orders Review of Parasite, home video release
In this episode we continue our coverage of Reel Asian 2019 with reviews of Ms. Purple, What We Left Unfinished, and Yellow Rose.
Reviews: Human Nature; Chiko (Goethe Series); Dolce Fine Giornata; Sometimes Always Never; Ghostbusters (Cineplex Special event)
Interview with director Jahmil X.T. Qubeka and Cast, Knuckle City Reviews: Parasite; The Lighthouse; Knives Out; Jojo Rabbit; A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood; Pain and Glory.
Reviews of: Anne at 13,000 Ft.; Coppers; White Lie; Blood Quantam; Waves; The Cave; The Whistlers; Hustlers.
Interview: Heather Young, Murmur Reviews: This is Not a Movie; Black Conflux; The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open; The Rest of Us; The Last Porno Show; Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger.
Interview: Aaron Poole, Oracle Reviews: Life Support; She Runs; Hot Flash; Flesh; And Then The Bear; The Physics of Sorrow; This Ink Runs Deep; No Crying at the Dinner Table; God's Nightmares; Bare Tress In The Mist; A Fool God.
Reviews: -Ready Or Not(In theatres) -Orange Is the New Black, DerryGirls (Netflix) -Fleabag (Amazon Prime)
Reviews: Mahalia Melts in the Rain; Femme Queen Chronicles Episode 1; 1 Vers(us) 1; Jo; Not Your Panda; Love Starved- More Than Fat; Worst Student Ever; Spooning; Home Girl.
Reviews: Knock Down The House; Toxic Beauty; On The President's Orders; Conviction; Gaza; MAXIMA.
Reviews: Honeyland; Always In Season; Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool; Shella Record: A Reggae Mystery; Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind; Pipe Dreams; Drag Kids.
Hot Docs 2019 Highlights Capsule Reviews: Shooting The Mafia; Midnight Traveler; Killing Patient Zero; Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project; Framing John DeLorean
We review some of the films playing the 2019 Human Rights Watch Film Festival including No Box For Me. A Intersex Story; The Cleaners; Roll Red Roll; and Life Without Basketball. We also talk about the new documentary Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes.
Barbara Goslawski interviews Barbara Kopple about New Homeland, her latest film. Canadian Premiere at Doc Soup at Hot Docs Cinema.
Reviews: Giant Little Ones; Firecrackers; The Hummingbird Project; Ash is the Purest White; Us.
Interview with Anne-Elise Allegritti, ICFF re; Call The Shots IWD event Reviews: Invisible Essence: The Little Prince; 3 Faces.
Interview w Cameron Bailey about TIFF Picture Palace Exhibition Reviews: Goethe Film Series' One Fine Day: Africa Now and What The Film Festival movies
Interview with Brigid Tierney, TIFF Next Wave Festival Reviews: TIFF Next Wave Film Festival: Minding the Gap; Carmen and Lola; Jinn; Blue My Mind; Respeto Toronto Black Film Festival: While I Breathe, I Hope; Salvage
Interview with directors Tony Coleman and Margaret Meagher (Mighty Uke) about their latest film, MINIATURE
Reviews: The Price of Everything; At Eternity's Gate; Tiger Spotlight: 1st Shorts That Are Not Pants Festival
Interview: Alan Black, Hot Docs Podcast Festival 2018 Reviews: Maria By Callas; The Oath; Halloween (2018)
Interview with Kelly Straughan, Rendezvous With Madness Reviews of films in Black Star Series, TIFF
Reviews: A Star is Born; Shadow; ROMA; Cold War; Destroyer; Rojo; Can You Ever Forgive Me; Transit; If Beale St Could Talk; The Weekend
Special podcast only edition TIFF 18 reviews: Firecrackers; Freaks; The Subject; Biidaaban; F*@# You; My Boy; Woman at War; Lionheart; Widows; Carmine Street Guitars; Blind Spot; Rafiki
Interviews with: --- director Zack Russell and co-writer and star Kayla Lorette (7A); witer/director Roney (Glitter's Wild Women) in Short Cuts Programme --- and Igor Drlijaca (The Stone Speakers) in Wavelengths
Highlights: Short Cuts; Canadian features Short Cuts: Animal Behaviour; Emptying The Tank; Fauve; Exit; Dziadzio; Little Waves; Caroni; Circles; Accidence Documentary: What is Democracy? Feature: Kingsway
Interview +Reviews Hosts Courtney Small and Barbara Goslawski Interview: Havard Bustnes, Golden Dawn Girls Reviews: Women of the Venezualan Crisis; Exit Music; Transformer; Bathtubs Over Broadway; Won't You Be My Neighbour; Love, Gilda; The Bill Murray Story: Life Lessons Learned From a Mythical Man.
Hosts: Barbara Goslawski and Courtney Small interviews: Christy Garland (What Walaa Wants); Chrisann Hessing (Turning Tables) Reviews: Shorts Program Below The Surface (Bernie Langille Wants to Know Who Killed Bernie Langille; Carousel; The Head and The Hand; Turning Table); Behind The Curve; Of Fathers and Sons; My War; Commander Arian - A Story of Women, War and Freedom; ; Laila At The Bridge; 93QUEEN; Yours In Sisterhood; Love, Scott.
Interviews and Reviews Interviews with 2 artists: Shasha Nakhai, Take Light; Kelly O'Brien, Postings From Home, in DOC X. Reviews: The Artist and The Pervert; The Prince and The Dybbuk; Mr. Fish: Cartooning From The Deep End; Crime + Punishment; Three Indentical Strangers; Mr. Soul!; Blowing Up; Anote's Ark; The Cleaners; Obscuro Barroco
Barbara Goslawski and Courtney Small discuss highlights from The Canadian Film Fest 2018.
Courtney Small and Barbara Goslawski interview Ann Shin about her latest feature, My Enemy, My Brother. Plus a discussion about TIFF Kids 2018 Festival.
Barbara Goslawski and Courtney Small discuss the films of Ulrike Ottinger and Lucrecia Martel.
Courtney Small and Barbara Goslawski chat IN BETWEEN film plus mentions of SHINERS and TIFF NEXT WAVE festival.
Barbara Goslawski and Courtney Small discuss highlights from the 6th Annual Toronto Black Film Festival
Barbara Goslawski, Courtney Small and Matthew price discuss The Final Year opening at Hot Docs Cinema, and available on VOD.
Barbara Goslawski and Matthew Price interview Curator Jim Shedden about the Art Gallery of Ontario's latest exhibition, Guillermo del Toro: At Home With Monsters
Local Heroes episode: interview with Aram Collier (Stand Up Man), Reel Asian FF; interview with Mose Mossansen (My Piece of the City), Regent Park FF.
Interview with Alice Kim (DON'T CRY), Reel Asian FF. Highlights from Reel Asian FF 2017, and from Regent Park FF 2017
Highlights from the Black Star Series at TIFF Bell LightBox and 21st Edition of The Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, 2017
Barbara Goslawski, Courtney Small, and Matthew Price discuss and review: UNFRACTURED; POACHED; FOOD COOP; WASTED; CAN YOU DIG IT?; BRASILIA; HOMOSAPIENS. Also: video/iTunes release of LADY MACBETH.
Film reviews from ImagineNATIVE 2017 edition. by Barbara Goslawski, Courtney Small, and Matthew Price: WARU; THE ROAD FORWARD; I LIKE GIRLS; THIRZA CUTHAND IS AN INDIAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDIAN ACT; CREATURE DADA; NUUCA; INDICTMENT; SWEET COUNTRY; OUR PEOPLE WILL BE HEALED.
Hosts Courtney Small and Barbara Goslawski INTERVIEW: Seth A Smith (director) and Danika Vandersteen (actor), THE CRESCENT. WRAP UP/REVIEWS: The Florida Project; The Shape of Water; Ava; Black Cop; Bodied; I Tanya; Outside In.
With hosts Courtney Small and Barbara Goslawski. Interview/Panel with SHORT CUTS Artists Yassmina Karajah (RUPTURE); Linsey Stewart (BICKFORD PARK); Mouna Traore (THE DROP IN). Interview with Dan Browne (PALMERSTON BLVD), in WAVELENGTHS. REVIEWS of SHORT CUTS: Nuuca; We Love Moses; Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month; The Tesla World Light; Airport; Shadow Nettes. REVIEWS OF FEATURES: Cardinals; There is a House Here; Meditation Park; Call Me By Your Name; In The Fade; Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle; High Fantasy; The Square.
Show 1 of FRAMELINE's TIFF17 coverage with Courtney Small and Barbara Goslawski. Interviews with directors Luis De Filippis (FOR NONNA ANNA) and Connor Jessup (LIRA'S FOREST). Reviews of SHORT CUTS: Threads; An Imagined Coversation; Kanye West and Stephen Hawking; Wicked; Push It; Creature Dada; Bird; Drop By Drop; The President's Visit; Charles; Pre-Drink. Reviews of FEATURES: Never Steady, Never Still; Our People Will Be Healed; Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts; Happy End; Sheikh Jackson; Loveless; Ta peau si lisse.