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The French Is a Cinéma Vérité Grand Slam

by Pat Mullen
August 5, 2022
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William Klein's 1982 documentary The French screens in a reissued restoration and offers a masterful work of vérité filmmaking.

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Terence Macartney-Filgate Dies at Age 97

by Pat Mullen
July 12, 2022
Features

Canadian filmmaker Terence Macartney-Filgate dies at age 97 following a distinguished and influential career in documentary.

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Jeannette Finds Strength in a Survivor’s Story

by Pat Mullen
May 27, 2022
Festivals/Interviews

An interview with Jeannette director Maris Curran and subject Jeannette Feliciano about finding strength in family and healing in the aftermath of trauma.

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TIFF 2020: 76 Days Review

by Marc Glassman
September 16, 2020August 10, 2021
Reviews/TIFF

76 Days is a classic cinema verité doc, which effectively depicts what happened at hospitals in Wuhan, China from February to April in the midst of the pandemic. Plunging us directly into

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TIFF Talk: Hao Wu Takes Audiences to the Frontlines of Wuhan in COVID Doc 76 Days

by Pat Mullen
September 10, 2020August 10, 2021
Interviews/TIFF

76 Days director Hao Wu discusses his film that takes audiences to the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic with an urgent cinema verité portrait of the outbreak in Wuhan.

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‘Pahokee’ Feels Like an American Landmark

by Pat Mullen
April 24, 2020August 28, 2021
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Pahokee (USA, 112 min.) Dir. Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas Every now and then comes a documentary that feels like an American landmark. Pahokee is one of those films. This outstanding documentary from Patrick Bresnan

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TIFF Review: ‘Love Child’

by Marc Glassman
September 12, 2019August 27, 2021
Reviews

Love Child (Denmark, 112 min) Dir. Eva Mulvad Two of the biggest issues in the world, border crossings and the fate of refugees, are at the heart of Love Child, Danish director Eva

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Review: ‘American Factory’

by Pat Mullen
April 28, 2019August 18, 2021
Festivals/Hot Docs/Reviews

Is there any hope left for the American dream? The prospects for the land of the free look pretty dire in the outstanding American Factory. The doc offers an immersive and penetrating

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TIFF Talk: Christo and Andrey Paounov on ‘Walking on Water’

by Pat Mullen
September 19, 2018August 22, 2021
Interviews/TIFF

Christo’s effort with The Floating Piers is captured brilliantly in the new documentary Walking on Water, directed by Andrey Paounov. Christo’s stories have been documented countless times before, but the cameras have

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