#documentary film
This week on The Criterinot Podcast: Strangers in Good Company AKA The Company of Strangers (1990) - Cynthia Scott
Strangers in Good Company is my favourite Canadian film (full disclosure, I haven’t seen the unauthorized Céline Dion biopic Aline yet…so, that could change).
I’m joined by actor, comedian, and fellow Stranger-head John Early (Search Party, I Think You Should Leave, and an IMDb STARmeter score of 13,959) to laugh and cry together about this fabulous gang of eight women who get stranded in the middle of nowhere in Québec.
Watch the movie in Canada for FREE here: THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Watch the movie on Amazon Prime in America here: STRANGERS IN GOOD COMPANY
Listen to the podcast here: LINK
Part 2 of documentary film Rageh Omaar looks at why Islam has come to be described by some people as a “very American faith”.
He traces its history in the US and talks to American Muslims about how their belief is compatible with the principles of American democracy.
To watch the episodes in order click the links below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxcCQ5X0ovw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDMGrVTsSEQ&feature=relmfu
I’ve been friends with the man pictured above for more than half a decade. It all started with a Craigslist search for my first motorcycle.
I ran across an ad titled, “Faster than a raped ape, faster than a cheetah on cocaine.” I called him up and it spiraled from there…
Todd Kiergen is a rare man. He’s got a beard down to the middle of his chest that’s raggedy at the bottom because he keeps catching it in his drill press. He measures time in cigarettes. He’s got a stereo that hits stadium rock volume levels and I’ve seen some of his bikes fire three-foot flames out of their tail pipes. He can talk about compression ratios, valve clearance and various bike models until I’m totally lost, and then follow it up with a joke about racing an ugly woman to the light switch. I’ve never met anyone like him before.
This originally appeared in Accent Magazine along with an essay that I wrote and some photographs.
Check out the trailer for this new documentary showcasing the self determination of the Puerto Rican people of Comerio. Find out more information about it here at We Still Here.
I continue to be so proud of this film, all involved, and the ripples we have already created with our documentary!
On that front, I’m excited to share that we have a BRAND NEW trailer for A Pebble in the Pond and that more news will be coming in the next months!
Please take a moment to watch our new trailer now and don’t forget to like & share!
SUBLIME CINEMA #599 - FOREST OF BLISS
Sublime anthropological documentary about Benares, India and its religious communities. It’s by Robert Gardner and made Werner Herzog’s short list for his favorite films of all time.
Gardner is an anthropologist and an unsung ethnographic filmmaker (Rivers of Sand and Dead Birds which he directed are also very good - and then there are a dozen films of his beyond those I’ve never seen or heard of). Forest of Bliss can be found on MUBI these days.
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