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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, 2022April 25, 2022
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
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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
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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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Review: ‘Boom for Real: The Teenager Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat’

by Marc Glassman
May 18, 2018August 29, 2021
Reviews

Driver’s film is about a controversial period in New York, when the middle class had fled the city and it was easy for artists to live in cheap flats in areas like

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