Tag: Hot Docs

Old Urbanism vs. New Urbanism in The Human Scale

May 30, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
Old Urbanism vs. New Urbanism in The Human Scale

The last review from Hot Docs 2013, Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Human Scale, is contrasted by a review of Patrick Demers and Joseph Hillel’s Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe (TVA Films), plus a modest Editor’s Blog on opposing urban philosophies.

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Hot Docs 2013, Days Two to Five: Fascist Regimes, Hellish Conditions, and Shanghai Jazz + Saul Bass at 93

May 8, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
Hot Docs 2013, Days Two to Five: Fascist Regimes, Hellish Conditions, and Shanghai Jazz + Saul Bass at 93

Uploaded are a quartet of documentary film reviews from Hot Docs, including the world’s oldest jazz band in As Time Goes By in Shanghai, the hellish world of asbestos mining in remote China in Cloudy Mountains, film school students in The Great North Korean Picture Show, and Russia’s tsarist President in the feature doc Winter, Go Away! shot during the 2012 elections + the short film Vladimir Putin in Deep Concentration. Also embedded within the Editor’s Blog: extyra blather on Saul Bass’ 93rd birthday, Kubrick at the Bloor, and upcoming goodies at KQEK.com and Big Head Amusements.

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Hot Docs 2013, Day One: Terms and Conditions May Apply

April 27, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
Hot Docs 2013, Day One: Terms and Conditions May Apply

The 20th Hot Docs Film Festival is underway, and uploaded is a capsule review of Cullen Hoback’s Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013), a chronology of how we’ve pretty much lost any sense of privacy by clicking on that “Accept” button found on every software, purchase and user aggreement to use free online services like Facebook and Google.

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Festivals-a-Go-Go: Dec.1 – Dec. 9, 2011

December 3, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Festivals-a-Go-Go: Dec.1 – Dec. 9, 2011

Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, advance Hot Docs and Bloor Cinema passes now available for purchase, Bill ‘Deliverance’ McKinney dies at 80 without a squeal, Chinatown & Adam Nayman at the TBL, hockey films, and Nino Rota turns 100!

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Festivals-a-Go-Go: Nov. 24 – Dec.1, 2011

November 25, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Festivals-a-Go-Go: Nov. 24 – Dec.1, 2011

Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, Doc Soup returns to the Bloor Dec. 7, Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre, and where you can still get pretty Guillermo del Toro “Fright Night” posters.

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Hot Docs: Part I

May 6, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Hot Docs: Part I

Reviews of three films from Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival: Lotte Stoops’ debut, Grande Hotel (2010), Robert-Jan Lacombe’s short documentary Goodbye Mandima (2010), and Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright’s doc Das Block / The Block…

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