Johanna Schneller

Carol Doda Topless at the Condor Directed by Marlo McKenzie, Jonathan Parker Opens in select theatres April 5

Housekeeping for Beginners Written and directed by Goran Stolevski Starring Anamaria Marinca, Samson Selim and Mia Mustafi

Scott’s supple empathy helps us see beyond the ‘monster’ or ‘villain’ of the show’s title character

I once watched the director David Fincher, on the set of Fight Club (1999), spend 40 minutes shooting a tight close-up of a bar of pink soap being slammed down onto a silver soap dish.

The King Tide is simultaneously spare and lush, realistic and fable-like. It’s also achingly urgent

What makes the Montreal-born Fichman the producer that directors are so desperate to work with? The answer lies in the name of her company, Intuitive Pictures

The overriding mood of the film is joy, however; the subjects grin with impish giddiness. “We loved our male chauvinist pigs,” one says. We just wanted to change them a little.”

The question the film does not answer is how a woman so gifted and alive could implode and disappear in full public view, and why no one could stop her

While researching Back to Black , her biopic of Amy Winehouse – the explosively talented but self-destructive English singer who died of alcohol