Category Archives: Carbon Arc Cinema

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Copa 71

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, where our mandate is to show independent Canadian, international, and documentary films. I'm part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen.  Directed by James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay | Written by Erskine, Ramsay, and Victoria Gregory | 90 min | Carbon Arc…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Here

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, whose mandate is to show the best in Canadian, international and documentary film. I'm part of a group of programmers who choose what we screen. Written and Directed by Bas Devos | 82 min | Belgium | Carbon Arc Cinema  One of our programming team called this…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Once You Know

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. This weekend we're screening a 4K restoration of Guy Maddin's 1990 film, Archangel, and a documentary from 2020, largely in French, called Once You Know. Directed by Emmanuel Cappellin | 104 min | Carbon Arc…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: Fallen Leaves

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. An earlier version of this review appeared during my coverage of the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival.  Written and Directed by Aki Kaurismäki | 81 min | Carbon Arc Cinema  Since the early 1980s…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: The Mission

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen.  Written and Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss | 103 min | Carbon Arc Cinema  Not to be confused with the Roland Roffé epic from 1986, this is a documentary centred on the…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: Joan Baez I Am A Noise

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen.  Directed by Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle, and Karen O'Connor | 113 min | Carbon Arc Cinema  That this documentary has three directors could be a reflection of both it's scale — a comprehensive look…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: The Eternal Memory

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen.  Written and Directed by Maite Alberdi | 84 minutes | Carbon Arc Cinema  Augusto Góngora is a journalist who covered Chilean politics and culture as an on-camera reporter and anchor, including the long stretch…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema Review: Amanda

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen.  Written and Directed by Carolina Cavalli | 93 min |  Carbon Arc Cinema  Our film from last weekend, Scrapper, was the debut from a British filmmaker, and this week we have another debut, this…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Scrapper

I'm the new Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen.  Written and Directed by Charlotte Regan | 84 min | Carbon Arc Cinema  Georgie (Lola Campbell) is a willful, self-determined 12-year-old. She lives in a council estate in suburban London, alone since her mother…Read More