kiva reardon, Author at cléo

Editor’s Note: #CanCon

kiva reardon — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:14:50 +0000

On November 5, 2012, I sent an email to a group of women with the subject line: “A semi-formed idea.” Would people be interested in starting a film journal, one centred on feminism? This was the ask. Everyone said yes. Over the next six years, that semi-formed idea would become cléo journal. It would become […]

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Expanding the Canon: The Cinema of Michka Saäl

kiva reardon — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:02:22 +0000

“She really was an unfortunately overlooked director.” Charlotte Selb, a colleague, wrote this in an email to me nearly a year ago. The filmmaker she was referring to was Michka Saäl, who had passed away suddenly after a quick illness in 2017. “As a woman, an immigrant and just somebody who wasn’t much of a […]

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“Curiosity is a good thing”: An Interview with Agnès Varda

kiva reardon — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:02:46 +0000

For some 50 years, Agnès Varda has worked and lived in the 14th arrondissement in Paris, in a pink-painted atelier on rue Daguerre. (Her love of this milieu is well-known: she documented her fellow inhabitants of the small street in 1976’s Daguerréotypes, and in 2003 filmed a short surrealist rom-com, Le Lion Volatil, around the iconic […]

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Discourses of Desire in Claire Denis’ Vendredi soir

kiva reardon — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:24:27 +0000

Claire Denis’ latest film Let the Sunshine In, which follows the failed attempts at finding love by a middle-aged woman (tour de force Juliette Binoche), has been dubbed the “most empathic, heartfelt film of [Denis’] illustrious career.”[i] On account of its more tender subject matter, it’s also being hailed by some as a departure for […]

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Editor’s Note: Firsts

kiva reardon — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:50:48 +0000

First off: a note of thanks. Thanks to the incredible women who give so much to this journal: Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, Mallory Andrews, Lydia Ogwang, Kathleen Kampeas-Rittenhouse. Thanks to Jovana Jankovic who copy edits our issues, Cathleen Evans who curates our newsletter, and Calina Ellwand and Bianca Huang for their fundraising work. Thanks to our contributors […]

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Women to Watch: Sofia Bohdanowicz

kiva reardon — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:47:58 +0000

Firsts are often thought to belong to the young: first steps, first word, first day of school, first kiss, first heartbreak. In this way, firsts are synonymous with novelty, momentous events that become less and less frequent—or at least less publicly lauded—as time passes. It’s a logic that emphasizes youth and calcifies the assumption that […]

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Editor’s Note: LOL!

kiva reardon — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:14:41 +0000

In 2005, like a dutiful teen with a disposable income, I saw Mr. & Mrs. Smith in theatres. What I remember most—more than the chemistry between a pre-Brangelina Brad and Angie and any specific plot points—was a stranger who advised me after my reaction to one particularly goofy scene, “You need to learn how to laugh.” I’m […]

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Editor’s Note: Risk

kiva reardon — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:34:56 +0000

Three years ago, a group of women decided that starting a feminist film journal was a risk they wanted to take. They were willing to put their names behind something that would call out sexism, critique the industry they worked in, and do it all on the internet, a place that’s never been friendly to […]

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Editor’s Note: Grace

kiva reardon — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:42:54 +0000

“In this film I wanted to say the sum of who we become is thanks to the people we meet.” – Danielle Arbid on Parisienne (Peur de rien) In the aftermath of the bombings in Beirut and Paris, I found myself searching for something in the world that resembled beauty, kindness, and yes, grace. After […]

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Between a Boxer and a Nun: An Interview with Geraldine Chaplin

kiva reardon — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:41:18 +0000

“I’m very much in love with a Dominican woman.” “How old is she?” “I don’t know.” Like age, there’s a tendency to lie when it comes to love. We lie about expectations, motivations and transgressions. We lie to friends, family, and, more often than not, ourselves, which tends to lead to the most painful consequences. […]

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