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Review: ‘All These Sleepless Nights’

January 17, 2017June 5, 2022

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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’

by Maurie Alioff

January 17, 2017December 27, 2021

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Swagger isn’t about music, but it features musical moments and highlights a mélange of genres from hip-hop to samba.

Review: ‘Bugs’

by Marc Glassman

January 14, 2017December 27, 2021

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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’

by Pat Mullen

January 6, 2017December 11, 2021

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Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds celebrates two dearly departed film icons.

Review: ‘The Great Wall’

by Tyler Prozeniuk

January 4, 2017December 12, 2021

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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’

by Maurie Alioff

January 4, 2017June 5, 2022

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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

by Ron Deutsch

January 3, 2017June 5, 2022

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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’

by Tyler Prozeniuk

January 3, 2017January 7, 2022

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Havarie belongs within a broadly defined notion of the essay film genre, and also exhibits a true experimentalism, all while never compromising documentary integrity.

Review: ‘Raving Iran’

by Maurie Alioff

January 3, 2017June 5, 2022

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Raving Iran gets very touching when we see Anoosh and Arash ecstatically releasing themselves and partygoers during the desert rave and, after a big story turn, in Switzerland. They are “floating,” as one of them puts it.