Articles
-
Review: ‘In the Name of All Canadians’
The Hot Docs original production In the Name of All Canadians does away with the navel-gazing, backslapping, and self-congratulation of Canada 150 to force the next part of the national conversation.
-
Review: ‘The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography’
In The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography, Errol Morris allows his viewers, and himself, to look precisely at the quite different beauty of Polaroid, portrait photography and Elsa Dorfman.
-
Real Queer
Hookers on Davie, The Devil’s Toy, No Sad Songs and Passiflora are four landmark LGBTQ docs in Canadian film history.
-
Policy Matters: Remaking Canadian Broadcast Culture in a Digital Age
Wherever Canadian policy lands on it, be prepared for a long, protracted fight from the vertically integrated broadcaster/ISP groups.
-
Review: ‘In Search of Israeli Cuisine’
In Search of Israeli Cuisine tours the kitchens of Israel in an effort to define a national flavour.
-
Review: ‘Manifesto’
Cate Blanchett plays a baker’s dozen of characters who perform artistic manifestos in this one-of-a-kind hybrid film.
-
Review: ‘The Babushkas of Chernobyl’
Holly Morris and Anne Bogart’s The Babushkas of Chernobyl captures the essence of a small, estranged and exceptionally strong community.
-
Review: DocNow Festival - Day 1
Review of the first screening of Ryerson’s DocNow festival, featuring films by Susan Enberg, Steph Vizi, Jeannette Breward, Ken Robinson, and Lauren Bridle
-
Review: ‘Things Arab Men Say’
Nisreen Baker’s NFB doc Things Arab Men Say offers a corrective to one-dimensional Arab characters.
-
Review: ‘Night School’
Andrew Cohn’s Night School follows three students as they return to class in search of second chances.
