Tag: HotDocs
Detroit on the Big Screen
Editorial blather plus Reviews of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia (2012), which screened at HotDocs this year and finally gets its theatrical run in Toronto at The Bloor alongside a related doc by Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit? (2010), made for the BBC.
Hiss (and Boo)!
Reviews of Hisss (2010), Jennifer Chambers Lynch’s disastrous Bollywood supernatural shocker, and an expanded review of Penny Vozniak’s making-of documentary Despite the Gods (2012), which screened in April at HotDocs. Also included: excerpts from the audience Q&A with director Vozniak.
HotDocs: Revision + Other Tidbits
Capsule review from the latest HotDocs screening: Revision (2012), the Cumberland Cinemas closes today, and Fox bids adieu to distributing 35mm film in 2014.
HotDocs: Family Nightmare + Francophrenia
Capsule reviews from the latest HotDocs screenings: Family Nightmare (2011) and Francophrenia (Or Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) (2012).
HotDocs: Despite the Gods + Chasing Ice
Capsule reviews from the latest HotDocs screenings: Despite the Gods (2012), and Chasing Ice (2012) making it’s Canadian American premiere.
HotDocs: Shadows of Liberty + Where Heaven Meets Hell
Capsule reviews from the latest HotDocs screenings: Shadows of Liberty (2012) making it’s World premiere, and Where Heaven Meets Hell (2011) making it’s North American premiere, plus editorial blather.
Bouchet-Tolo Double-Bill = Quadruple-Trouble!
Reviews of Code Red’s B-movie double-bill Stoney / Surabaya Conspiracy (1969) + The Killer Likes Candy / Un killer per sua maestà (1968).
Festivals-a-Go-Go
Classic films & Cageian extremes continue at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, ballet tiptoes to the NFB Mediatheque, authentic Japanese kabuki is broadcast in HD at Cineplex’s Front Row Centre Events, the Bloor Cinema is set to reopen in March, and Abel Gance’s Napoleon returns to the big screen in a 4-day engagement because Francis Coppola saw the widsom.
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