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Adam Nayman

Adam Nayman is a critic and teacher in Toronto. He writes for Cinema Scope, The Ringer, and other publications.

Surviving Progress

by Adam Nayman
September 1, 2011February 27, 2022
Features/TIFF

Surviving Progress opens with an arresting series of images: a pair of chimpanzees puzzling over the correct placement of two wooden blocks in a white-walled laboratory.

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Tilting at Windmills

by Adam Nayman
April 1, 2011April 17, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Trish Dolan's Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson and David York's Wiebo's War offer radical portraits of environmental renegades.

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Is David Suzuki a Force of Nature?

by Adam Nayman
September 1, 2010March 12, 2022
Features

Sturla Gunnarsson's Force of Nature profiles Canadian icon and environmentalist David Suzukui, known for his hit series The Nature of Things.

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experiMental

by Adam Nayman
April 1, 2010April 21, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Can documentaries break with tradition and become truly avant garde? Mike Hoolboom's Mark and Yuval Sagiv's How I Filmed the War prove it's possible.

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TIFF and Film Education

by Adam Nayman
February 1, 2010March 12, 2022
Features/TIFF

How the Toronto International Film Festival serves education and cinephilia through programs like the TIFF Cinematheque and Film Reference Library.

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Auto Biography

by Adam Nayman
September 1, 2009April 22, 2022
Features/TIFF

With Carcasses, Denis Côté has gone even further afield, although his hand has never been surer.

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Pointed View: Mark Peranson’s “Waiting for Sancho”

by Adam Nayman
April 1, 2009April 20, 2022
Features

Mark Peranson’s Waiting for Sancho absolutely belongs in the pages of a Canadian magazine attuned to documentary and independent cinema and its absence from this year’s Hot Docs lineup is worth noting.

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The Universe is Electric

by Adam Nayman
April 1, 2009April 23, 2022
Features/Hot Docs

Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier discuss their documentary Act of God, which opens the 2009 Hot Docs Film Festival.

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Reel Artists Festival Comes of Age

by Adam Nayman
February 1, 2009May 16, 2022
Festivals

Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival has cornered the Toronto's film festival market on contemporary documentaries about visual artists.

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Sneaking Through The Middle

by Adam Nayman
November 1, 2008May 9, 2022
Features

The coming together of Cirque du Soleil and the Beatles in the stage show Love is recounted in Adrian Wills' All Together Now.

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