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Issue 67

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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Pointed View: Lovely Framing and Lorne Greene’s Baritone

by Oliver Hockenhull
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

Is the acclaimed Manufactured Landscapes coolly representative of a pervasive yet unacknowledged nihilism in documentary?

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High Definition for Dummies

by Richard Stringer
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Industry

Now HD product has a rapidly growing presence in broadcast television. There is more HD programming, TVs are bigger, designed for HD.

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The Versioning of History

by Matthew Hays
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

When the American “pro-Israeli” version of The Six Day War was broadcast in Canada, POV asks, who controls history in this country?

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Obscene: Barney Rosset Vs Our Way of Life

by Andrew McIntosh
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

Did Barney Rosset the founder of Grove Press, which published Candy, Henry Miller, The Story of O, William Burroughs and Victorian erotica, make obscene books? Or masterpieces?

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A Promise to the Dead

by Adam Nayman
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

Distinguished writer Ariel Dorfman’s (Death and the Maiden) journeys from Chile to the US inspired Peter Raymont’s new doc feature. Nayman observes an inspiring tale.

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Les Raquetteurs and the birth of modern Quebec cinema

by Andre Loiselle
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

In an exclusive collaboration with TIFF, POV is pleased to publish an excerpt from Loiselle’s new book on Michel Brault.

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Guy Maddin’s “My Winnipeg”

by Guy Maddin
October 1, 2007May 9, 2022
Features

Internationally acclaimed auteur Guy Maddin shares his impressions of a city that has shaped his life and inspired his first doc, My Winnipeg.

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The Sicko Debate: A Healthy Skepticism

by Peter Wintonick Debbie Melnyk Rick Caine
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Features

Is Michael Moore a raving propagandist or a left-wing saviour? Filmmakers Peter Wintonick (Manufacturing Consent) and Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk (Manufacturing Dissent) offer their takes.

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Curiosity, driving trucks, and a dash of Roland Barthes: A POV interview with Paul Jay

by Marc Glassman Barri Cohen
October 1, 2007May 12, 2022
Interviews

"I’ve never thought of what I do as a career. Maybe from the outside it looks like a career, but it was mostly a series of accidents," says Paul Jay.

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