Amazing Grace (USA, 87 min.) Directed by Sydney Pollack and “realized” by Alan Elliot I’ve caught myself a few times over the past week calling Amazing Grace an archival film. “It’s great, but as
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Andrea Bussmann’s hybrid film Fausto transports the Faust myth to beaches of Oaxaca, Mexico for a loose, free-flowing, and hypnotic meditation.
Keep ReadingLife Without Basketball (USA, 98 min.) Dir. Jon Mercer, Tim O’Donnell Life Without Basketball puts a new spin on the phrase “right to play.” The inspiring doc, which screens at TIFF’s Human Rights
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Keep ReadingThe Invisibles: We Want to Live (Germany, 110 min.) Dir. Claus Räfle Past, present, fact, and fiction weave an effective collage in The Invisibles. This powerful doc-drama hybrid tells the story of the
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Barbara Kopple discusses her documentary New Homeland, which observes a group of young Syrian and Iraqi refugees attend a summer camp in Algonquin Park. The director talks about sharing the kids' story,
Keep ReadingModified (Canada, 44 min.) Dir. Aube Giroux Ten years and many emails to bureaucrats later, Aube Giroux’s Modified is available for all of Canada to see. The doc’s journey, Giroux tells us in voiceover,
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Charles Officer's Invisible Essence dives into the world of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince and amasses a chorus of talking heads from around the world who are united in their enthusiasm
Keep ReadingThe Panama Papers (USA, 97 min.) Dir. Alex Winter Alex Winter is quickly becoming a master of something one could call the techno-thriller documentary. After the Napster doc Downloaded (2013) and the true crime
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Apollo 11 successfully completes a Herculean task in telling the story of the moon landing from all-angles using pre-existing coverage. It’s a marvel of technical accomplishment, but more than that, it’s a dynamic
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