Tag: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
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.
Toronto’s Lost Rivers
Happy April Fool’s and all that nonsense. Uploaded is a review of Caroline Bacle’s Lost Rivers (2012), a timely film about the status of buried rivers and tributatries in major industrialized cities like Toronto. Tied to the review are excerpts from a post-screening audience Q&A with producer Katarina Soukup and Lost Rivers Toronto founder Helen Mills.
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