Review: ‘Brothers of the Night’
Brothers of the Night immerses you in an off-centre world offering a frank look at young men trying to stay afloat in a sea of contradictions.
Review: ‘Dark Night’
Like Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, Tim Sutton’s Dark Night is a trance film inspired by mass murder.
Review: ‘All These Sleepless Nights’
Polish filmmaker Michal Marczak’s All These Sleepless Nights, which picked up the World Cinema Documentary Award at Sundance 2016, has been getting mostly favourable attention for evaporating distinctions between documentary and fiction, its cinematic technique, and the experience the film offers.
Review: ‘Swagger’
Swagger isn’t about music, but it features musical moments and highlights a mélange of genres from hip-hop to samba.
Review: ‘Bugs’
In Bugs, a funny and thought provoking Danish documentary, we follow chef Ben Reade, food researcher Josh Evans and producer Roberto Flore.
Review: ‘Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds celebrates two dearly departed film icons.
Review: ‘The Great Wall’
Tadhg O’Sullivan’s The Great Wall provokes curiosity as a doc about the migrant crisis and the fortification European borders, based on a 1917 story by Franz Kafka
Review: ‘Mrs. B, a North Korean Woman’
Korean filmmaker and artist Jero Yun’s Mrs. B, a North Korean Woman traces the complicated, dangerous life of its eponymous protagonist.
David Lynch: Artist & Reluctant Yogi
David Lynch: The Art Life and Shadows of Paradise offer different aspects of the man’s life beyond his filmmaking, but neither doc truly captures the inspiration for his art.
Review: ‘Havarie’
Havarie belongs within a broadly defined notion of the essay film genre, and also exhibits a true experimentalism, all while never compromising documentary integrity.