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Hot Docs 2012 – Another Preview
Amidst the usual bevy of clips, images and detailed descriptions, the Press Conference for this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival (starting today and running until May 6th) had two other big...
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Hot Docs 2012: ¡Vivan las Antipodas! Review
Narration is a difficult device to use in filmmaking. The adage has always been to “show” not “tell”. That rule is usually given a bit more leeway when it comes to documentary filmmaking, though, due...
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Hot Docs 2012: Tchoupitoulas Review
New Orleans is a city vibrant with colour, steeped in music and chock full of fantasy. The streets of the French Quarter are, on just about any given night, filled with feathered costumes, seductive...
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Hot Docs 2012: Sexy Baby Review
I wasn’t very far into Sexy Baby when I thought it might be an excellent choice for my son to watch with me. He’s only a year younger than 12 year-old Winnifred (the first of the three main subjects...
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Hot Docs 2012: The Revisionaries Review
I left the Hot Docs screening of The Revisionaries angry. Not stomping mad yelling obscenities, but stewing over what I had just seen, frustrated over an inability to do anything about it IMMEDIATELY...
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Hot Docs 2012: Aida: A Natural-Born Artist Review
It’s hard to say if Aida Makoto will ever truly let himself be happy. As an artist, he’ll always be restless (as most really creative people are) and never completely satisfied with all his work, but...
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Hot Docs 2012: The Documentary Blog Podcast
Jay Cheel of the Documentary Blog and some of his Film Junk cohorts (Sean and Frank) join our own Kurt Halfyard for a mondo wrap-up podcast of the recent Hot Docs film festival. As Jay states, the...
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Toronto After Dark 2012: My Amityville Horror Review
. I was initially very skeptical when I heard that the documentary My Amityville Horror was to look back at the real life events that inspired the blockbuster 1979 film The Amityville Horror. How do...
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Blindspotting #6 – Pather Panchali and Nanook Of The North
. It’s been a good solid two decades that I’ve been wanting to see Satyajit Ray’s famed “Apu trilogy”. As my interest in film started to poke its nose into various realms, I continued to see the...
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Cinecast Episode 295 – I Wouldn’t Wear That. Even in the Future!
This week sees a return to form with all sorts of negativity and disagreement. But [in best DeForest Kelley voice] for God sake man, it’s Anne Hathaway. She’s worth fighting for! Outside of that...
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Hot Docs 2013 – A Preview
. Hot Docs – the biggest documentary film festival in North America taking place in Toronto between April 25th and May 5th – hits its 20th year this April (schedule available and tickets on sale now)...
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Hot Docs 2013: Quality Balls – The David Steinberg Story
It’s 1976 or 1977 and sitting at the table are John Candy, Martin Short, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas – Canadian comedy royalty if there ever was. And yet standing over them, presiding over the entire...
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Hot Docs 2013: The Expedition To The End Of The World
One of the old adages of filmmaking is that you need to start with the story, focus on that narrative and build from there. Documentary film isn’t overly different, except that in some cases it can...
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Hot Docs 2013: We Cause Scenes
Having seen numerous examples of their good-natured public pranks online, We Cause Scenes was pretty much exactly what I wanted in a documentary covering the history of Improv Everywhere. Aside from a...
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Hot Docs 2013: Shooting Bigfoot
Director Morgan Matthews states right up front that he used to be keenly interested in Bigfoot in his younger days. Years later, that interest has now flipped and turned into a deep curiosity of the...
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Hot Docs 2013: Rent A Family Inc.
Ryuichi Ichinokawa’s wife doesn’t know what he does for a living. And she doesn’t really seem to care…”Without meaningful conversation, any relationship withers. I guess I just gave up on him. As long...
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Hot Docs 2013: Anita
I‘m a bit conflicted over my impressions of Freida Mock’s newest documentary Anita, so let’s see if I can work them out… First of all, let me be clear about the subject of the film – Anita Hill is...
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Hot Docs 2013: Valentine Road
Director Marta Cunningham is glad I’m angry. The second showing of her fantastic documentary Valentine Road has just let out at Hot Docs and a few of us are milling about the lobby. She’s more than...
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Hot Docs 2013: Muscle Shoals
Tucked into the North-West corner of the state and hugging the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is a slow-paced town of about 13000 people (if you sift it out of its Quad Cities region). But...
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Mamo #325: Breaking Docs
In this two-pronged episode, Kaitlyn Regehr, producer of Tempest Storm: Burlesque Queen, returns to the show to discuss her experiences pitching the project at WestDoc 2013. After that, we get into...
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Hot Docs 2014 Preview
So how do you go about choosing what you want to see at a film festival like Hot Docs (running from April 24th to May 4th in Toronto)? With a roster of 197 films from 43 different countries and a...
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Cinecast Episode 467- 2016 Year in Review (Part Two)
We did it. With the help of Jim Laczkowski from The Director’s Club Podcast and Voices & Visions, Andrew and Kurt are joined by Matt Gamble for a full exploration of the year that was – maybe...
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Cinecast Episode 467- 2016 Year in Review (The Whole Bloody Affair)
We did it. With the help of Jim Laczkowski from The Director’s Club Podcast and Voices & Visions, Andrew and Kurt are joined by Matt Gamble for a full exploration of the year that was – maybe...
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Cinecast Episode 467- 2016 Year in Review (Part Three)
We did it. With the help of Jim Laczkowski from The Director’s Club Podcast and Voices & Visions, Andrew and Kurt are joined by Matt Gamble for a full exploration of the year that was – maybe...
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Cinecast Episode 467- 2016 Year in Review (Part One)
We did it. With the help of Jim Laczkowski from The Director’s Club Podcast and Voices & Visions, Andrew and Kurt are joined by Matt Gamble for a full exploration of the year that was – maybe...
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