Issue 57 - Spring 2005
Toronto’s Primitive Entertainment celebrates fifteen years making bold and provocative docs that inspire us.
The Paris Paradigm, by Adam Nayman To pilfer a phrase from a colleague, Rick Solomon’s One Night in Paris – or, as it’s more commonly and less punningly known, the Paris Hilton sex tape – is likely a vital work of “skinema
Read MoreWith the bloody 1976 Students’ Revolt, the American media snapped to attention, and discovered apartheid which from then on became the hypocritical rationale for covering the violence in South Africa, the real bait for the networks. The Soweto Uprising had
Read MoreJorgen Leth: Translucent Being The Five Obstructions, a movie made with (and despite) Lars Von Trier, has pushed Jorgen Leth further into visibility on the global stage but there are long lines of light that led to that renowned collaboration.
Read MoreAh, memories of Oscar, from Audrey Hepburn hiking up her dress to show NFB director Eunice Macaulay her outrageously high heels, to Oscar winning NFB animators, up on the big stage, frozen like deer in the headlights. Would they talk?
Read MoreHigh Def and Standard Def The existing North American system for broadcasting is called NTSC. This is now known as “Standard Definition”. “High Definition” is a totally new standard requiring different cameras, capture mediums, playback machines, transmission facilities and TVs.
Read MoreBRITISH COLUMBIA — Katherine Dodds Paris Stories Paris Stories, The Fiction of Mavis Gallant tells the story of Canada’s famously “unknown” writer. One of The New Yorker’s most frequently published short story writers, Gallant often appears in anthologies of great American writers. A
Read MoreWhat has happened to the fabulous festival bag? And I don’t mean the aged blonde puffing away on the terrace, martini in one hand, cellphone in the other. Long gone are the weighty corporate satchels with multi-pockets, flaps and key
Read MoreSince their splashy beginning fifteen years ago with the “non-fiction movie” The Falls, Primitive has beena major force in documentary production. They’ve built their enviable reputation for integrity and innovation with such important point-of-view docs as In the Reign of Twilight, Intelligence, Cod: the
Read MoreMany filmmakers make documentaries but there are few countries where they have the freedom and opportunity to so consistently shine a light on all the foibles, injustices and controversies of their society as they do in Israel. Films like David
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