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The Bibi Files Review: What’s New on Netanyahu?

by Marc Glassman
September 10, 2024September 17, 2024
Reviews/TIFF

Screening at TIFF as a work in progress , Alexis Bloom's The Bibi Files offers leaked interrogation footage of Benjamin Netanyahu.

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TIFF Adds Doc The Bibi Files Featuring Interrogation Footage of Netanyahu

by Pat Mullen
September 3, 2024
TIFF

TIFF adds The Bibi Files to TIFF Docs slate. Film by Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney features never-before-seen interrogation footage of Netanyahu.

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In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon Review – Of Ghosts and Empty Sockets

by Jason Gorber
September 16, 2023March 14, 2024
Reviews/TIFF

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, Alex Gibney's sprawling portrait of Paul Simon, is a triumphant celebration and a missed opportunity.

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Swan Song, Nickelback, Paul Simon Lead First TIFF Doc Titles

by Pat Mullen
July 24, 2023
TIFF

TIFF announces first Galas and Special Presentations titles for 2023 festival including films by Chelsea McMullan, Leigh Brooks, and Alex Gibney.

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The Crime of the Century Review: A towering examination of the Opioid Crisis

by Marc Glassman
May 7, 2021August 9, 2021
Hot Docs/Reviews

We all know that way too many people have died from overdosing on supposedly legal drugs, but have you looked at the numbers lately? In Alex Gibney’s brilliant new investigative series The

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Totally Under Control Review: Trump’s Pandemic of Stupidity

by Pat Mullen
October 16, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Totally Under Control (USA, 124 min.) Dir. Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan Totally Under Control ends with a title card informing viewers that American President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 one

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TIFF 2020: Enemies of the State Review

by Pat Mullen
September 12, 2020August 14, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

One unexpected twist anticipates another in Sonia Kennebeck’s Enemies of the State. The film is a jaw-dropper of a wild-but-true tale that leaves a viewer guessing.

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Netflix Reclaims Its True Crime Credence with ‘The Innocence Files’

by Pat Mullen
April 15, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

Netflix reclaims its true crime credence with The Innocence Files. After the hugely entertaining, but highly flawed and ethically dubious, quarantine sensation of Tiger King comes this nine-part feat of investigative rigour. The Innocence Files admittedly lacks the

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TIFF Review: ‘Citizen K’

by Daniel Glassman
September 23, 2019August 27, 2021
Reviews

Citizen K (USA, 125 min) Dir. Alex Gibney Programme: TIFF Docs (World Premiere) Alex Gibney is a master of the well-made doc. It’s hard to find fault in his films. Everything is in its

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From Aliens to AOC, Sundance Docs Brought Down the House

by Jason Gorber
February 8, 2019August 24, 2021
Festivals/Sundance

Sundance remains the preeminent birthplace for the year’s great works of non-fiction, and more than a few reviewed below will almost certainly be declared the finest works of documentary for 2019.

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Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weeken Catch the Oscar short docs in theatres this weekend! 🏆

This year's nominees are:
🫏 perfectly a strangeness
🩺 The Devil Is Busy
📷 All the Empty Rooms
🪧 Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
📹 Armed With Only a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

🔗: link to review in bio

📽: TIFF; But also streaming! All the Empty Rooms is on Netflix and Seemed with Only a Camera, The Devil Is Busy, and perfectly a strangeness are in Crave. 

#shorts  #film #movies #Oscars #donkeys
How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard How do you make Elvis sound unlike fans have heard him before?

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert film editor and executive producer Jonathan Redmon tells us about re-mastering the King himself. 🤴 

🔗: in bio
📽: in theatres Feb. 20

#Elvis #elvispresley #movies #film #Documentary
Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary open Move over, Melania, there's a new documentary opening wide, and it's #EPiC!

Don't miss EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Baz Luhrmann's maximalist music doc that had TIFFgoers dancing in the theatre. 

📽: IMAX theatres Feb. 20; regular cinemas next week. 
🔗: in bio

#Elvis #elvispresley #Documentary #bazluhrmann
RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true master RIP Fred Wiseman, one of documentary's true masters. 🕯

In films like Titicut Follies,  National Gallery, In Jackson Heights, and Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, his observational eye and appreciation for institutional intricacies (and how to critique them) inspired us to savour every second of a film.  May #Wisemanesque films stand the test of time! 

#FrederickWiseman #Documentary #film #rip
First they came for the books. 📚 Festival favouri First they came for the books. 📚

Festival favourite #AnAmericanPastoral observes a snapshot of the culture wars and radicalized politics. Now streaming!

🔗: in bio
📽: Apple

#film #documentary #movies #moviereview
Party like it's 2008! Blurring the zany line betwe Party like it's 2008! Blurring the zany line between mockumentary, Jackass, and WTF, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is a truly Canadian original. 

🔗: in bio
📽: now in theatres

#nirvanna #movies #moviereview #film #mockumentary
And the award for teacher of the year goes to... 🥁 And the award for teacher of the year goes to... 🥁🥁🥁

Catch a courageous story to protect young minds from Russia's regime in Oscar nominee @mr.nobodyagainstputin.

🔗: in bio
📽: now in theatres

#mrnobodyagainstputin #Documentary #film #movies #moviereview
Well, it looks like Melania won't be our next cove Well, it looks like Melania won't be our next cover girl. 🤷

🔗: in bio
📽: coming to Prime Video

#Melania #documentary #film #movies #moviereview
Whether you sing #HakunaMatata or #HakuchaMunyata, Whether you sing #HakunaMatata or #HakuchaMunyata, @runasimi.doc reminds us that accessible cinema ain't no passing craze. 

📽: Catch it tonight at @hotdocs_ #DocSoup series!

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