Ebert’s Tweet, on an alone Saturday night. We’re not sure how, but Roger Ebert has discovered Tanya Davis‘ new lovely video for her song “How to be Alone,” directed by Andrea Dorfman, who also did the animations. The video only went up on July 28, and now has over 122,000 hits—a testament to the power […]
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Tanya Davis and Andrea Dorfman collaboration on Bravo this weekend
Tanya Davis is all Alone If you missed Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis’ videopoem How to Be Alone at Atlantic Film Fest last week, it’s going to be on Bravo!FACT Presents this weekend, Friday and Saturday at 10pm, and at 8:30pm on Sunday. It’s the filmmaker and singer/songwriter’s second collaboration, after Art, and Davis describes it as being “about… being alone. Or being one person in the world. Or being okay spending time with yourself. Or all of the above.”
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Film Fest following
Among movie folk, there’s a ritual: Sit down with the Atlantic Film Festival catalogue and/or website, and plot out every moviegoing second (from September 17 to 26), considering travel time, crowd sizes and the chance of films actually coming back. We hoard non-perishables and determine which lanyard ribbon brings out the colour in our Vitamin […]
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How to pick a rainy day movie: the sequel
Rainy day movies Jay Dahl, filmmaker In my book, one to two millimetres of rain is enough to justify a nine-hour Sopranothon. My favourite bad weather DVDs at the moment are just that: heavily serialized cable network series. Breaking Bad, Summer Heights High, Mad Men and Friday Night Lights: These shows are dangerously addictive—you’ll find […]