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Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel Review – What Makes a Hotel Grand?

by Pat Mullen
July 7, 2022
Reviews

People come and people go in grand hotels, but Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel shows how the ones who stay ultimately define them.

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Srđan Keča on Museum of the Revolution and Documenting Paradise Lost

by Pat Mullen
May 16, 2022
Hot Docs/Interviews

An interview with Museum of the Revolution director Srdan Keca about his documentary that explores an abandoned monument of hope and the lives of those within.

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] In a reflection of an unmarked storefront is a grayish silhouette of a man using an electric wheelchair. Behind the man is a spectacular red and yellow circus tent.

I Didn’t See You There Creates a City Symphony Film Anew

by Pat Mullen
January 25, 2022January 23, 2023
Interviews/Sundance

Director Reid Davenport discusses creating an aesthetic of radical disability and empathy.

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Strand, Levitt, and Parks

by Vincenzo Pietropaolo
December 28, 2021
Photography

A look back at three pioneering photographer-filmmakers: Paul Strand, Helen Levitt, and Gordon Parks and their contribution to documentary.

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Martha: A Picture Story Review: Subway Art, Revisited

by Pat Mullen
March 4, 2021August 8, 2021
Reviews

Upbeat doc Martha: A Picture Story gives street photographer Martha Cooper her due.

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Pretend It’s a City Review: A Lebowitz Love Letter to Urban Life

by Pat Mullen
January 7, 2021August 17, 2021
Reviews

On one hand, Pretend It’s a City is an engaging portrait of Fran Lebowitz, but on the other, it’s an essential time capsule of pre-COVID city life. I haven’t laughed so heartily

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There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace Review: Neighbourhood Character

by Pat Mullen
October 8, 2020August 28, 2021
Reviews

There’s No Place Like This Place, Anyplace (Canada, 75 min.) Dir. Lulu Wei When I first tried moving to Toronto, I enjoyed an extended temporary stay on my twin brother’s couch. He

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Paying It Forward

by Susan G. Cole
July 15, 2020August 30, 2021
Features/Hot Docs/Industry

Two movies, Toronto-based, set fewer than a hundred meters apart, made by millennial women. But that’s not all that connects #BLESSED and There's No Place Like This Place, Anyplace.

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Nostalgia for City Life: Jean-François Lesage on ‘Prayer for a Lost Mitten’

by Pat Mullen
May 29, 2020August 21, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

Prayer for a Lost Mitten director Jean-François Lesage discusses his winner for Hot Docs’ Best Canadian Feature Award and the forgotten pleasures of urban life, told through the stories of items lost

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The Tipping Point: Fredrik Gertten Talks ‘Push’ and the Global Housing Crisis

by Pat Mullen
July 18, 2019August 19, 2021
Interviews

"When the financial backers put down their feet it a city, it’s with a lot of energy and they shake the city," says Push director Fredrik Gertten on his documentary that explores

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Houston, we have lift-off on #Sundance coverage! T Houston, we have lift-off on #Sundance coverage! THE LONGEST GOODBYE director Ido Mizrahy jobs us to talk space and social isolation. 🚀

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"The thread that links all my films is to create a "The thread that links all my films is to create a space of visibility for people at the edge of visibility."

Alice Diop joins us to discuss the documentary roots of #SaintOmer! You can catch her docs now on @mubicanada and SAINT OMER opens at @tiff_net Friday from @films_we_like. 📽

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How did THE TERRITORY engage members of the Uru-eu How did THE TERRITORY engage members of the Uru-eu-wau-wau tribe to tell their story? Here's director Alex Pritz on Tangãi's journey to becoming one of the film's cinematographers.

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Now screening for free from @Goetheinstitut_Toront Now screening for free from @Goetheinstitut_Toronto until Feb. 15, catch THEN & NOW, the first in a series of double-bills of German cinema streaming online through 2023. 

Among the films screening in this month's selection is the documentary TACHELES - THE HEART OF THE MATTER, which observes how younger generations carry the weight of the Holocaust if it is so far removed from their experiences. 🇩🇪

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If social media is the toilet of the internet, wha If social media is the toilet of the internet, what is the solution? BACKLASH: MISOGYNY IN THE DIGITAL AGE sees four women share stories of online harassment. 

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What does it mean when your subject is a key colla What does it mean when your subject is a key collaborator? Here's #Wildcat director Trevor Frost on working with subject Harry Turner to film the re-wilding of ocelots Khan and Keanu. 🐈

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Here's Bonnie the Marmot gracing your feed with ne Here's Bonnie the Marmot gracing your feed with news that @netflixca's #IslandOfTheSeaWolves squeaked out the year's biggest controversy to be our top read of 2022! Find out what else drew readers' interest this year, and get some tips on docs to watch (or watch for!) at home and in theatres. #documentary #Bestof2022 #marmot #film 

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Can a cat save your life? @wildcatdocfilm director Can a cat save your life? @wildcatdocfilm director Trevor Frost joins us to discuss documenting ocelots, collaborative filmmaking, and taking care of a subject's mental health. 🐾 #Wildcat #cats #ocelot #documentary #film #movies 

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