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Mr. Dressup, Fred Wiseman Lead TIFF Docs Line-Up

by Pat Mullen
July 26, 2023
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2023 TIFF Docs line-up announcement includes Mr. Dressup, Frederick Wiseman, Summer Qamp, Errol Morris, Raoul Peck, Lucy Walker, and more!

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Women on the Road and Behind the Camera

by Vivian Belik
June 19, 2023
Essays/Features

Road movies directed by women display a sense of curiosity in what is traditionally one of cinema's more male-dominated genres.

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Representing Andrea Dworkin’s Controversial Voice on Screen

by Alexandra Juhasz
June 2, 2023
Interviews

An interview with My Name Is Andrea director Pratibha Parmar about capturing the life and work of Andrea Dworkin in her unique hybrid film.

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Documentary Now! Review: For the Love of Documentary

by Pat Mullen
September 15, 2022
Reviews/TIFF

The documentary parody series Documentary Now! returns for a fourth season to send up My Octopus Teacher, Agnès Varda, and the BBC.

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Paper & Glue Review: Vive le photograffeur!

by Marc Glassman
January 27, 2022
Festivals/Reviews

Artist JR follows-up his Oscar nominated Agnès Varda collaboration Faces Places with Paper & Glue, which is well worth viewing.

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Agnès Varda: Emotion Pictures

by Maya Gallus
June 16, 2020
Features

Agnès Varda celebrated the beauty of the marginalized, turning her lens on the elderly, indigent, immigrants, and people of colour. Most of all, she focussed on women.

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Black Lives Matter On Screen

by Marc Glassman
June 11, 2020
Features/Lists

Criterion Channel's collections of films about Black experiences have a number of docs and hybrids worth exploring, including Symbiopsychtaxiplasm and Urban Rashomon.

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POV #112 Editorial

by Marc Glassman
May 13, 2020
Features

When this issue was planned, COVID-19 was in the distance, nothing but a series of news reports from Asia. For a month, I was corresponding with writers and conducting interviews from France,

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Slow Down, Cinema!

by Dorothy Woodend
September 28, 2019
Festivals

A bleary-eyed Dorothy Woodend reports on her binge-watching from the 2019 Vancouver International Film Festival.

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TIFF Review: ‘Varda Par Agnès’

by Pat Mullen
September 5, 2019
Reviews/TIFF

Varda By Agnès (France, 115 min.) Dir. Agnès Varda Programme: Special Events (Canadian Premiere) Agnès Varda’s final film is a bittersweet farewell. It’s difficult to avoid watching Varda By Agnès, which premiered earlier

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