Posts tagged Documentaries
Hot Docs ’24: What to See at the Planet’s Biggest Documentary Film Festival, Pt. 2
By Original-Cin Staff
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PreviewJim SlotekDocumentaries, Film Festival, An Unfinished Journey, Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story, Born Hungry, Curl Power, Death of a Saint, Fragments of a Life Loved, Nice Ladies, Okurimono, Power, So This Is Christmas, Streets Loud with Echoes, The Conquest of Space, The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine, Stories We Tell, Red Fever
Beyond Utopia: Doc About North Korea Escapees Scary for Viewers and Protagonists
By Chris Knight
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Living With Chucky: The Killer Doll's Human 'Sister' Directs an Overheated Love Letter
ReviewJim SlotekLiving with Chucky, Kyra Elsie Gardner, Brad Dourif, Fiona Dourif, Tony Gardner, Alex Vincent, Don Mancini, Jennifer Tilley, David Kirschner, Lin Shaye, Marlon Wayans, Abigail Breslin, Documentaries
The Human Rights Watch Canada Film Festival: A Festival of Free Films About Freedom
PreviewJim SlotekThe Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Hot Docs, Klabona Keepers, The Last Shelter, March For Dignity, Mujer de Soldado, Tacheles - The Heart of the Matter, Jennifer Baichwal, Nick De Pencier, Human Rights, Activism, Documentaries
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Free Documentary Series a Midwinter Gift
The Great Green Wall: A drive-by tour of bio-resistance to the Sahara, with African music stars a'plenty
ReviewJim SlotekThe Great Green Wall, African desertification, Sahara, Environmental issues, Documentaries, Boko Haram, Music for humanitarian causes, Inna Modja, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Biz Stone, Songhoy Blues, Betty G, Ethiopia
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art - a grade A dissection of one of America's biggest art scams
ReviewJim SlotekHot Docs International Film Festival, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, Barry Avrich, Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, Art fraud, Documentaries, Events postponed due to caronavirus, Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World, M. Knoedler & Co, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Louvre, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Maria Konnikova, The Confidence Game, Domenico di Sole, Sotheby's
The 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival: Carrying on, in theory
PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival., Events postponed due to caronavirus, Documentaries, CBC, MADE YOU LOOK: A True Story About Fake Art, Barry Avrich, Elizabeth St. Philip, 9/11 KIDS, Liz Marshall, Meat the Future, They Call Me Dr. Miami, Jean-Simon Chartier, Lord Tim Bell, Influence, The Walrus and the Whistleblower, Hong Kong Moments, Bing Zhou, Larry Flynt for President
Assholes: A Theory - Light sociological doc runs into problems defining its orifice
ReviewJim SlotekAssholes: A Theory, John Walker, Aaron James, Asshole Theory of Donald Trump, Sherry Lee Benson-Podolchuk, Cornell law professor, Robert Hockett, Silvio Berlusconi, Aimee Morrison, John Cleese, Geoffrey Nunberg, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, No-Asshole work policies, Documentaries
There Are No Fakes: Engrossing doc on Indigenous art fraud reveals bigger picture
By Karen Gordon
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Skate Kitchen: An actual crew of young women boarders becomes less real as fiction
ReviewJim SlotekSkate Kitchen, Skateboarding, Female skateboarders, Youth Culture, Crystal Moselle, Jaden Smith, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran, Docudrama, Documentaries, The Wolfpack
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood: Bisexual secrets of everyone from Tracy & Hepburn to the Duke & Duchess
ReviewJim SlotekScotty Bowers, Secret Hollywood sex lives, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Matt Tyrnauer, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Stephen Fry, Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Documentaries
Always At The Carlyle squanders its Old World saga on modern celeb sizzle
By Karen Gordon
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Original-Cin Q&A: Won't You Be My Neighbor's Morgan Neville on Mister Rogers, his counsel to Yo-Yo Ma and his beautiful legacy
By Bonnie Laufer
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The Gospel According To Andre: Just an ordinary flamboyant man in a caftan
By Karen Gordon
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Pope Francis: A Man Of His Word asks ‘Where in the world is il Papa?’
Original-Cin interview/review: Doc shines light on women chefs who turned up The Heat
Love, Cecil: A doc about the style-setter who tarted up My Fair Lady
Poop Talk: 78 minutes of comics talking sh-- is funny and revealing for the non-squeamish
Original-Cin Q&A Birdland: Peter Lynch on quitting docs and going noir
