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Marc Glassman

Marc Glassman is the editor of POV Magazine and contributes film reviews to Classical FM. He is an adjunct professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and is the treasurer of the Toronto Film Critics Association.

Into the Weeds Review: Courtroom Drama with a Green Twist

by Marc Glassman
May 20, 2022
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Jennifer Baichwal's Into the Weeds delivers a compelling courtroom tale that raises serious environmental concerns with its portrait of Lee Johnson's case against Monsanto.

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Mau Review: A Book as Good as Its Cover

by Marc Glassman
May 18, 2022
Reviews

Brothers Jono Bergmann and Benji Bergmann craft a worthy portrait of famed Canadian designer Bruce Mau that explores his life and work.

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Sam Now Review: Generational trauma sensitively rendered

by Marc Glassman
May 9, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

Reed Harkness has made a wonderful once-in-a-lifetime film with Sam Now, which is filled with intimate family footage.

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Skin Review: The Art of Protest

by Marc Glassman
May 6, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

One of the most beautiful films of this or any year, Skin (Pele) is a city symphony, an evocation of what life is like in Belo Horizonte.

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Reason Review: Detective Patwardhan

by Marc Glassman
May 6, 2022May 7, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

Reason is a mystery story with Anand Patwardhan as the detective. It’s the perfect role for a documentarist to play.

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Batata Review: An Extraordinary Work Ten Years in the Making

by Marc Glassman
May 4, 2022May 5, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

Batata is an extraordinary film because Noura Kevorkian stuck with it, even as the human drama changed, and the politics of the situation became more dire and complex.

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Shelter Review: On Finding Your Roots and Home

by Marc Glassman
May 4, 2022May 5, 2022
Hot Docs/Reviews

In the beautifully shot Shelter, Tess Girard returns to Horning’s Mills, the small town in Ontario where she spent so much of her time while growing up.

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Geographies of Solitude Review: Mills Constructs True Art

by Marc Glassman
May 4, 2022May 5, 2022
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Inspired by Sable Island and its one constant human inhabitant Zoe Lucas, filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills has constructed a work of art with Geographies of Solitude.

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Barri Cohen’s Unloved Confronts a Painful Past

by Marc Glassman
May 2, 2022
Hot Docs/Interviews

Barri Cohen's Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children is a personal study that confronts a legacy of abuse and injustice in an Ontario institution.

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Embracing An Elephant—Hot Docs Returns

by Marc Glassman
April 29, 2022
Hot Docs

Canada’s finest documentary festival is back : Marc Glassman offers Hot Docs highlights including Zero Position,

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Still time to catch films at @reframefilmfestival, Still time to catch films at @reframefilmfestival, like Hot Docs audience favourite UNLOVED: HURONIA'S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN, which dives into a history of systemic abuse in an Ontario hospital. Visit reframefilmfestival.ca/festival/ to attend the virtual fest! #documentary #film #movies #ReFrame23 #docs
We have tons of reviews and interviews from Sundan We have tons of reviews and interviews from Sundance! (With more to come!) Click the link in our bio for the full slate.

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3. Twice Colonized
4. The Eternal Memory
5. Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
6. Going to Mars
7. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
8. A Still Small Voice
9. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
10. Deep Rising 

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Your Oscar nominees for Best #Documentary Feature Your Oscar nominees for Best #Documentary Feature 🏆
- All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
- All that Breathes
- Fire of Love
- A House Made of Splinters 
- Navalny 

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Houston, we have lift-off on #Sundance coverage! T Houston, we have lift-off on #Sundance coverage! THE LONGEST GOODBYE director Ido Mizrahy jobs us to talk space and social isolation. 🚀

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"The thread that links all my films is to create a "The thread that links all my films is to create a space of visibility for people at the edge of visibility."

Alice Diop joins us to discuss the documentary roots of #SaintOmer! You can catch her docs now on @mubicanada and SAINT OMER opens at @tiff_net Friday from @films_we_like. 📽

🔗: https://povmagazine.com/alice-diop-on-the-documentary-roots-of-saint-omer/

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How did THE TERRITORY engage members of the Uru-eu How did THE TERRITORY engage members of the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe to tell their story? Here's director Alex Pritz on Tangãi's journey to becoming one of the film's cinematographers.

🔗 Read more in our full interview with Pritz: https://povmagazine.com/alex-pritz-on-the-territory-and-participatory-filmmaking/

📽️ THE TERRITORY is on Disney+ in the USA.

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Now screening for free from @Goetheinstitut_Toront Now screening for free from @Goetheinstitut_Toronto until Feb. 15, catch THEN & NOW, the first in a series of double-bills of German cinema streaming online through 2023. 

Among the films screening in this month's selection is the documentary TACHELES - THE HEART OF THE MATTER, which observes how younger generations carry the weight of the Holocaust if it is so far removed from their experiences. 🇩🇪

New films added monthly!

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If social media is the toilet of the internet, wha If social media is the toilet of the internet, what is the solution? BACKLASH: MISOGYNY IN THE DIGITAL AGE sees four women share stories of online harassment. 

🔗 Review: https://povmagazine.com/backlash-review-get-riled-up-with-stories-of-cyber-sexism/

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What does it mean when your subject is a key colla What does it mean when your subject is a key collaborator? Here's #Wildcat director Trevor Frost on working with subject Harry Turner to film the re-wilding of ocelots Khan and Keanu. 🐈

🔗 Read the full interview: https://povmagazine.com/how-wildcat-captures-our-harmony-with-animals/

🗣️: Watch the full convo: https://youtu.be/v8f5LSK2Efo

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Here's Bonnie the Marmot gracing your feed with ne Here's Bonnie the Marmot gracing your feed with news that @netflixca's #IslandOfTheSeaWolves squeaked out the year's biggest controversy to be our top read of 2022! Find out what else drew readers' interest this year, and get some tips on docs to watch (or watch for!) at home and in theatres. #documentary #Bestof2022 #marmot #film 

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