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How The Librarians Observes First Responders in the Culture Wars

by Pat Mullen
October 7, 2025October 8, 2025
Features/Interviews

An interview with The Librarians director Kim A. Snyder on her documentary about book banning across the U.S.A. and the fight to protect young minds.

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A woman in a green t-shirt looks at a display case with the word 'librarian' in white atop a blue background. She is standing in a library.

The Librarians Review: Throwing the Book at Bigots

by Jason Gorber
January 31, 2025October 1, 2025
Reviews/Sundance

The fight against book bans and the effort to preserve the sharing of knowledge for America's children fuel Kim A. Snyder's The Librarians.

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Errol Morris Talks The Pigeon Tunnel, Adaptation, and “Documentaries”

by Pat Mullen
October 20, 2023
Features/Interviews

An interview with The Pigeon Tunnel director Errol Morris about his film on David Cornwell, aka acclaimed spy novelist John le Carré.

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Umberto Eco: A Library of the World Review – Bookworms, Rejoice

by Pat Mullen
July 13, 2023
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Umberto Eco: A Library of the World profiles late Italian writer, philosopher, book lover, and keeper of collective memory.

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DocLit: Screening Nature and Nation Charts a History of NFB Eco Docs

by Pat Mullen
July 15, 2022
Reviews

Screening Nature and Nation: The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974 by Michael D. Clemens offers a thorough study of key NFB films and their relationship to environmentalism in Canada.

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Book Review: ‘John Porter’s CineScenes’

by Mike Hoolboom
January 15, 2016May 24, 2022
Photography/Reviews

There have been rumours about a John Porter photo book for nearly as long as he has been making pictures. Kudos to editor/producer Clint Enns for making this project happen.

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In Review: The Tower of Babble

by Nik Sheehan
September 27, 2012June 5, 2022
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In his wittily titled The Tower of Babble, the CBC's Richard Stursberg has written a breezy, insightful and unabashedly self-serving business-bookcum-memoir of his tempestuous tenure.

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In Review: Shoot It!

by Nicholas Gergesha
April 2, 2012June 5, 2022
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Shoot It!: Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film by film journalist David Spaner, ambitiously explores international indie movements from the 1940s onward.

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In Review: Queer Film Classic Series

by Nik Sheehan
February 1, 2012April 9, 2022
Reviews

The 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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The Sicko Debate: Citizen Truth

by Peter Wintonick
October 1, 2008May 9, 2022
Features

The debate that documentaries engender by helping us to understand media manipulation is legitimate. The question remains, who owns the truth?

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