Issue 85 - Spring 2012
The illustrious Wim Wenders discusses a wide-ranging career in drama and documentary with works like Buena Vista Social Club, Lightning Over Water, and his latest doc, Pina.
It’s a well-worn critical cliché to say that a particular film is “as boring as watching paint dry." Does the Reel Artists Film Festival prove otherwise?
Read MoreLook to any bazaar or marketplace and you’ll find peddlers carefully jostling in hierarchical ways, where the louder, noisier and bigger characters get the lion’s share of attention.
Read MoreWim Wenders discusses his documentary Pina, working in 3D, and his long career spanning documentary, drama, and hybrids of the two forms.
Read More"It was an anomaly for a documentary about art to do so well. But it proved that there is an audience for such a film," says Jennifer Biachwal on the success of Manufactured Landscapes.
Read MoreJennifer Baichwal’s latest documentary, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth is inspired by Margaret Atwood’s 2008 fascinating Massey Lecture and book of the same name.
Read MorePink Ribbons, Inc. challenges us to ask harder questions, to be skeptical, rather than just say what’s the harm in raising money for breast cancer research?
Read MoreAlongside almost 300 films screened at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) last November, the 12-day event offered an interactive alternative to the documentary form. According to artists and curators, digital storytelling is an unexpected and burgeoning breed that should
Read MoreHighlights of TIFF 2011 include docs by Jonathan Demme, Wim Wenders, Davis Guggenheim, Werner Herzog, Ron Fricke, Frederick Wiseman and Cameron Crowe.
Read MoreA look at dedicated young Arab filmmakers and their works in the months before Arab Spring.
Read MoreThe Queer Film Classic series is the brainchild of Montreal-based editors Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh covering films like Zero Patience and Fire.
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