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Category: festivals

Coverage of TIFF, Hot Docs, NXNE, and Toronto After Dark

festivals, hot docs, reactions

FEAR ITSELF plays Hot Docs 2016

There is nothing to fear but fear itself…and the dark…and the silence…and isolation…and crowds…and…

Posted on May 2, 2016May 6, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

WEINER plays Hot Docs 2016

If you’ve already been publicly disgraced once, what’s the chances you’ll get disgraced again?

Posted on May 1, 2016May 6, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

CAMERAPERSON plays Hot Docs 2016

From many images comes a singular emotional piece.

Posted on May 1, 2016May 3, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

STRIKE A POSE plays Hot Docs 2016

Twenty five years after stuggling to express themselves, six men have lived to tell.

Posted on April 30, 2016May 3, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE SEER plays Hot Docs 2016

Hot Docs 2016 brings us before Wendell Berry, and his plea for us to consider our choices.

Posted on April 29, 2016May 3, 2016
festivals, hot docs, reactions

LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD plays Hot Docs 2016

Our Hot Docs 2016 coverage begins with Werner Herzog, and a question of whether androids dream of electric sheep.

Posted on April 29, 2016May 2, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

WITCH plays TIFF 2015

Lift up your hands and pray for salvation…but have a back-up plan, just in case that doesn’t work.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 27, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

HITCHCOCK /TRUFFAUT plays TIFF 2015

A love letter to a pair of cinematic giants who both lived for – and through – cinema.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 27, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

GIRLS LOST plays TIFF 2015

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they’re girls
Who do girls like they’re boys

Posted on September 20, 2015September 25, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

LOVE plays TIFF 2015

There’s sex and there’s love. What we find in-between is both ugly and beautiful.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 25, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

NORTHERN SOUL plays TIFF 2015

Just go to the dance hall and visit your very obscure, not to be identified by name friends.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 21, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE MARTIAN plays TIFF 2015

That rare moment where you don’t have to check your brain at the door to enjoy a blockbuster.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 20, 2015

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