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Kiva Reardon is the lead programmer for contemporary world cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival and the founding editor of cléo journal. She joined Alan and Ellen to talk about the career of Irish footballer Robbie Keane and what he means to her as an Irish-Canadian. Alan and Ellen are not sport people but now they love Robbie Keane FIERCELY. You can find Kiva on Twitter at @kiva_jane, and follow her work with TIFF and cléo journal. Alan is @alan_maguire, Ellen is @incogellen. Juvenalia is on all of the social medias, if you search for Juvenalia, you'll find us. Juvenalia original artwork by Dee McDonnell This episode was produced and edited by Brian + Alan
Anna Odell was born in Stockholm. She was educated in art at the University College of Arts and the Royal Institute of Art. Odell and podcast host Kiva Reardon discuss Odell's newest film X&Y and her art graduation project Unknown, Woman 2009-349701 which sparked a debate about the meaning of art and has been shown at various locations in Scandinavia and Paris.
Soudade Kaadan is a Syrian filmmaker, born in France in 1979. She was educated in theatre criticism at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria and in filmmaking at the Saint Joseph University in Lebanon. Kaadan and podcast host Kiva Reardon will discuss The Day I Lost My Shadow, Kaadans' first feature fiction film which was awarded Best Debut in Venice.
Dominga Sotomayor finished her filmmaking studies in 2007 and started production company Cinestación. Sotomayor and host Kiva Reardon discuss her latest film Tarde para morir joven and Sotomayor's use of time, place and sound in her film.
Cauleen Smith joined Kiva Reardon for the first episode of the IFFR Talks Podcast. They discuss the voice of authority and why the archive is important for her work. Smith is inspired by structuralism, Third World cinema and science fiction in her interdisciplinary filmmaking practice. She now works as a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
If you have a special place in your heart for documentary filmmaking, vulnerability, and talent, turn up the volume and cry: AGNES VARDA is here. (Well, sort of.) Join cléo founder and TIFF and Miami Film Festival programmer Kiva Reardon who sits down with Anne to explain why Agnes Varda means so much, why her work matters more than ever, and what it was like to sit in the filmmaker's living room and talk about feelings. (Spoiler: amazing. It was amazing.) You can follow Kiva on Twitter and Instagram.
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Following the April 18, 2018, screening of I've Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) at Toronto's Revue Cinema for National Canadian Film Day, writer-director Patricia Rozema discussed her feature film debut with cléo journal’s Kiva Reardon. Topics include the casting of Sheila McCarthy, developing the story, filming in Toronto, a short bit on Harvey Weinstein, Calvinist self-discipline, and Rozema’s latest work, Mouthpiece. Bookending the podcast are some thoughts on my shifting tastes since 1987, and at KQEK.com I've posted additional thoughts on the film, related links, and reviews of Rozema's first two features, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing and White Room (1990). If you enjoyed this bonus podcast, connect with us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
In our very first splintersode, your genial host Norm Wilner presents some deleted digressions from our episodes with Kiva Reardon and Faith Erin Hicks! Those conversations took pop-culture detours that couldn’t be accommodated within the parameters of a normal show, but they’re exactly right for this post-Comic-Con saturated landscape. (Basically, Batman and Chris Evans were … Continue reading Comic-Con Adjacent Splintersode with Kiva Reardon and Faith Erin Hicks →
Hallo! This week, Kiva Reardon — film critic and editor of the very worthy cléo journal — finds the humor in the racism, sexism and general awfulness of Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles’ transgressive 2006 spectacle Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Your genial host Norm Wilner says: “You like, is nice.”
Kiva Reardon isn't one to completely define what her work is, but for the past two years, her new journal cléo has broadened the conversation around cinema and feminism in a unique and exciting way. In this second Toronto-based episode, Kiva talks to Peter about growing up with classic movies, trying to deconstruct pop culture items (including but not limited to: Drake), and the gestural bodily cinema of Claire Denis. They then move onto forming cleo, and why its diversity in terms of both content and form has been one of the key aspects to its success. Finally, Kiva brings in the 1945 Technicolor noir Leave Her To Heaven with Gene Tierney, and the two discuss it as a template for a more recent murderous melodrama: David Fincher's Gone Girl. 0:00-2:00 Opening3:05-11:44 Establishing Shots - Also Like Life: The Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien / Donations12:28-48:35 Deep Focus - Kiva Reardon49:47-51:27 Mubi Sponsorship - Jean Rollin and Tilda Swinton53:00 -1:11:26 Double Exposure - Leave Her To Heaven (John M. Stahl)1:11:30-1:13:34 Close / Outtakes