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Tag: docs

festivals, hot docs, reactions

TCHOUPITOULAS plays Hot Docs

There’s nothing like New Orleans as day turns into night…and even less like New Orleans as night turns into day again.

Posted on May 2, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

CHARLES BRADLEY: SOUL OF AMERICA plays Hot Docs

Try a little harder
Stop wasting over yonder
Wake up –
You’ll get your break…

Posted on May 2, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE WAITING ROOM plays Hot Docs

Take your number and take a seat. This might take a while.

Posted on May 1, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE FINAL MEMBER plays Hot Docs

You know you’re writing a different sort of post when you start running out of synonyms for “penis”. As it happens, the subject of the post is one fantastic film.

Posted on May 1, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

BIG EASY EXPRESS plays Hot Docs

Some great young musicians ride the rails and churn out some wonderful tunes as they do.

Posted on April 30, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE BOXING GIRLS OF KABUL plays Hot Docs

In Afghanistan, a new class of young women are stepping on to a place of former bloodshed and fighting for their freedom. Literally.

Posted on April 30, 2012December 24, 2012
festivals, hot docs, reactions

ABOUT FACE: THE SUPERMODELS, THEN AND NOW plays Hot Docs

Fashion has always been about the women, the men were besides the fact. Get ready to listen to some of the most iconic women of them all.

Posted on April 29, 2012December 24, 2012
dvd doubleback

PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY

Once in a very long while, a film can come along and change a lot of people’s minds and hearts. One film series has had three such films, and this third time out, the case is more convincing than its ever been.

Posted on February 9, 2012February 14, 2012
reviews

THE INTERRUPTERS

The Director of STEVIE and HOOP DREAMS is Back With One of The Year’s Most Important Films.

Posted on October 9, 2011June 29, 2014
reviews

ARMADILLO

Trying to encapsulate war documentaries continues to challenge me…after all, there’s just so many ways one can write “war is hell”. What I will say … Read More ›

Posted on July 10, 2011February 20, 2012
festivals, nxne, Toronto

Rock N’ Roll Ghost: COLOR ME OBSESSED Plays NXNE

Rock docs are a dime a dozen. Every week there is a new one; some getting a full-scale theatrical release, some created on the sham … Read More ›

Posted on June 18, 2011August 3, 2011
festivals, nxne, Toronto

Rock & Roll is A Vicious Game: RAINMAN GOES TO ROCKWIZ plays NXNE

I’m beginning to believe that everybody in the world “has something”: some talent, some knowledge base, some special thing to offer the world. It might … Read More ›

Posted on June 17, 2011August 3, 2011

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