5 Great ways to use your monthly Kanopy credits!
Social distancing does not have to mean social isolation. Please check here every day as we showcase different interesting, educational, or simply entertaining resource or service. Today’s offering: five kanopy films recommended by Corey Purcell, WFPL Circulation Assistant.
Her Smell: Five vignettes track the career of fictional 90’s rock superstar Becky Something. Elizabeth Moss gives an astounding and enthralling performances as she portrays Becky at both her top-of-the-world stardom and her somber contemplative moments after her fall.
Columbus: A calming and beautiful film follows the son of a prominent architect (John Cho) as he is stranded in Columbus, Indiana and begins a friendship with a library assistant and amateur architecture enthusiast (Haley Lu Richardson).
Force Majeure: This Swedish film follows a family on vacation in the French Alps. When an false-alarm avalanche shows the husband’s true colors, he and his wife’s marital tensions intensify. Recently remade into an American comedy starring Will Farrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but I promise the original is better.
Watermelon Woman: In this classic of 90’s underground “New Queer Cinema” romantic comedy, director and lead actress Cheryl Dunye plays a video store clerk and aspiring filmmaker as she struggles through love, friendship, and documentary research. The first ever feature film to be directed by a black lesbian.
What We Do in the Shadows: Uproarious New Zealand mockumentary on the lives of vampires directed by and starring Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok) and Jermaine Clement (Flight of the Concords, Moana).