Adam Nayman is a critic and teacher in Toronto. He writes for Cinema Scope, The Ringer, and other publications.
This year’s Canadian documentary selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival is highlighted by a pair of portraits of gifted British Columbia-based artists: Natalie Boll and LaTiesha Fazakas’s Meet Beau Dick: Maker of Monsters,
Keep ReadingThe title of a 2007 documentary says it all: Let’s All Hate Toronto. Ontario is a province that houses two formidable capitals, and while Ottawa officially represents the seat of Canadian political power,
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Keep ReadingBrian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky curate a selection of films at RIDM based around photographic images in the series A Photographer’s Eye.
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Keep ReadingYou’d be hard-pressed in 2014 to find anybody working in Canadian cinema who doesn’t owe something to Peter Harcourt.
Keep ReadingSturla Gunnarsson's Monsoon is a majestic new documentary shot on location in India and beneath torrents of relentless rain.
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