The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has a little piece on Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker (USA, 2022). “I wish The People’s Joker could just be a film about Joker the Harlequin’s experience and we could watch it as one movie among others. I wish I could anticipate a […]
Bitches On Comics talks to filmmaker Vera Drew about her film, The People’s Joker! “Vera Drew joins us to discuss her indie feature film The People’s Joker! We get into using comic book characters to tell autobiographical stories, the film’s unconventional path to distribution, and turning a personal […]
At the Projection Booth Podcast, Mike White interviews Vera Drew, writer/director/star of The People’s Joker! “On this special episode, Mike speaks with Vera Drew the director, star, and co-writer of the origin story of Vera Drew AKA Joker the Harlequin” Listen here.
Jen Yamato writes about the fight to save Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker (2022)! “The fight over The People’s Joker, and its very public eruption at one of the world’s preeminent film festivals, set up a David-and-Goliath story of superheroic proportions. On one side: an indie pastiche budgeted […]
The unlikeliest story of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival – more than Taylor Swift or Harry Styles or the presence of any celebrity – is undoubtedly the path Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker has taken to instant notoriety. The recontextualizing of the events in Todd Phillips’ Joker […]
Here’s the line-up for this year’s Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival! If you can’t make it to the screenings, make sure to keep an eye out for these films when the come to streaming or a theater near you: Eric Appel’s Weird: The Al […]
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