Films: September 2012 Archives
Saturday September 22, 2012
The Girls in the Band: women in jazz
Lil Armstrong was an amazing jazz musician and composer, but she's most remembered for being the wife of Louis Armstrong.
She's just one of the many talented women featured in an award-winning documentary called "The Girls in the Band".
It shines a light on the women who were professional musicians, composers, arrangers and conductors in the golden age of jazz.
The film shows not only their unsung talent - but the sexism and racism they faced, and the attitude that women musicians were just a novelty act.
The documentary is playing tonight at the Montreal International Black Film Festival.
Director and producer Judy Chaikin spoke with Elizabeth Robertson.
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Saturday September 1, 2012
Montreal filmmakers keep it short and sweet

Montreal filmmakers Mark Slutsky and AJ Korkidakis are both featured in Montreal Short Stop. They joined Sonali in studio to talk about their short films "Sorry, Rabbi" and "The Perfect Apartment" -- and how they couldn't have happened anywhere else but Montreal.
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Saturday September 1, 2012
Mo Rocca and "Electoral Dysfunction"

What does the U.S.A. have in common with Chechnya, Libya and Iran? Turns out none of them include the right to vote in their constitutions. The quagmire that is the U.S. electoral system is the subject of a new documentary called Electoral Dysfunction. It's playing this weekend at the Montreal World Film Festival.
Mo Rocca is a humourist and correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and the NPR show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." He's the host of Electoral Dysfunction and-- just in time to make us feel really good about our own provincial election--he joined Sona to break down the muddy waters of voting in the United States.
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- Sat., 13 – South Asian film festival in Montreal
- August 2014
- Sun., 24 – Slums: Cities of Tomorrow
- Sun., 10 – The memoirs of filmmaker John Dunning
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- Sat., 29 – Rudy Barichello's Meetings with a Young Poet
- Sun., 9 – Lady In Number 6 wins an Oscar
- Sun., 2 – Oscar night with Kevin Tierney
- February 2014
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- Sat., 25 – Whitewash: murder, guilt, ice and snow
- Sat., 4 – Best movies of 2013
- December 2013
- Sat., 21 – The Shortest Day Short Film Celebration
- Sat., 7 – Québékoisie: journey on Route 138
- November 2013
- Sun., 17 – Gabriel Arcand: "Le Démantèlement"
- Sun., 10 – Toi, Moi et la Charte NFB interactive
- Sat., 9 – Tourism Quebec: Saturday
- October 2013
- Sat., 26 – Hunting the Northern Godard in Abitibi
- Sat., 5 – Stanbridge East on 8mm films
- August 2013
- Sat., 3 – 5-25-77: growing up with Star Wars
- July 2013
- Sun., 7 – Last Woman Standing
- Sat., 6 – Jay Baruchel talks apocalypse and comedy
- June 2013
- Sun., 30 – Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world
- Sun., 30 – Blockbuster movies from South Korea
- May 2013
- Sat., 11 – Blood Pressure, a new Canadian thriller
- April 2013
- Sun., 28 – Jeppe on a Friday comes to Vues d'Afrique
- Sat., 20 – Geneviève Bujold: Still Mine, 'still ours'
- February 2013
- Sun., 24 – NFB's Spring Break Channel (it's free!)
- Sun., 17 – Yan England heads to the Oscars with "Henry"
- Sun., 10 – Being Chinese in Quebec
- January 2013
- Sun., 13 – The World Before Her
- December 2012
- Sat., 29 – Holiday movie suggestions
- November 2012
- Sun., 18 – Something Grand: The Camino
- October 2012
- Sat., 27 – Deepa Mehta: Midnight's Children
- Sat., 20 – Life of Pi: Yann Martel on the red carpet
- September 2012
- Sat., 22 – The Girls in the Band: women in jazz
- Sat., 1 – Mo Rocca and "Electoral Dysfunction"
- August 2012
- Sun., 19 – Rafaël Ouellet's Camion in cinemas, TIFF
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