We now interrupt this regularly scheduled blog to talk documentaries… Today begins a special series of my regular Matineecast, talking about all thing festival related. The format will be a little different than usual, namely episodes will be a bit shorter, and sometimes more raw as I won’t be finessing all of them through editing…
In every nowhere town, There are “somewhere” dreams… If you’re like me, you’d give your right arm to be able to pen something that poetic. Well the man responsible for writing it (who never had to give up his right arm) is the subject of LOVE SHINES, a documentary getting its debut at Hot…
As I mentioned two weeks ago, Hot Docs is coming up soon. I’m actually quite excited now as I’ve finally had a chance to look through the complete schedule and press kit and am starting to see my festival experience take shape. Having given every film listing a once over, I thought between now and…
As mentioned about this time last week, this space will slowly but surely begin to lean itself towards the nonfictional brand of movies as we get closer to the Hot Docs Festival. With that in mind, what better place to start than with the opening night gala? Morgan Spurlock is a director who seems to…
The truth is out there. If you’re in or around Toronto, you’d be well-served to check out the offerings of The 2011 Hot Docs Festival, North America’s largest documentary film fest which is now eighteen years old. And if you think that the films being offered up are tiny passion projects that will never become…
I’m still very much on the fence about the use of 3-D in films, and of all the trillions of features playing in three dimensions soon, the only one I have any interest of ponying up the extra loot for is Scorsese’s HUGO CABRET. But then there’s Werner Herzog. The one thing I’ll always associate…
At least once or twice this winter, the conversation of whether animated features should qualify for best picture has come up around the blogosphere. To those who still count themselves amongst the naysayers, have I got a movie for you…a doc about Disney’s renaissance from 1984 to 1994 called WAKING SLEEPING BEAUTY. The doc is…
