Marcus Lindeen’s latest documentary revisits a 1970s radical social experiment by way of a creative and revelatory re-enactment involving the surviving research participants. For 101 days in the summer of 1973, ten volunteer subjects
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You see him everywhere, a large sneering bully of a man. He’s the Donald, the #potus—really, is that so much quicker to say than President?—the orange skinned asshole with the trophy wife
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Filmmaker Rudi Dolezal recalls his work with Freddie Mercury and weighs in on Rami Malek's portrayal of the rock icon in Bohemian Rhapsody
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Hate. It’s raw, visceral and, in the rising global craziness of 2018, we see it every day. We also see it on screens. Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016), inspired by
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“Given my job,” writes MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in a review of Michiko Kakutani’s new book about the Trump era, The Death of Truth, “I am forced to ask myself every day: Is it possible to
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1968 was a year of cultural and political seismic shifts, marked more by assassinations, strikes and demonstrations than the peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll clichés remembered fondly by Boomers and derided
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The Anthropocene is a concept ripe for exploration by documentarians, who have a unique ability to depict the scale of human impact on the world. How films like Anthropocene: The Human Epoch,
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Watching powerful films and talking about sexual violence as a longstanding institutional problem, we can hope to reach a more forthright way to understand, and bring about change.
Keep ReadingIt is beyond any reasonable doubt that we’re in the midst of a trans moment in our political, cultural and social spheres. Big-and small-screen trans representations are increasing in frequency, while some
Keep ReadingAfter the endless hand-twisting debates around race in Canada’s artist movie portals – in production co-ops, in distribution joints, in cinematheques and fests – why are they still so very white? This
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