Remembering Gene Wilder: Portrait of an Actor as a Saint
By Chris Knight
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ReviewJim SlotekRemembering Gene Wilder, Gene Wilder, Ron Frank, Documentary, Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks, Carol Kane, Alan Alda, Ben Mankiewicz, Hot Docs
Umberto Eco, A Library of the World: Behold the Eco Chamber
By Chris Knight
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In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis, Lots of Countries, Always Waving
And Still I Sing: A Victory for an Afghan Woman Singer, A Tragedy for a Country
Blind Ambition: Underdog African Sommelier Story Adds Geniality to the Wine-Film Genre
ReviewJim SlotekDocumentary, Wine, Wine connoisseurs, Blind Ambition, Robert Coe, Warwick Ross, Hot Docs, Drama, South Africa, Zimbabwe
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
Mau: A Documentary Designed for Flattery
Hot Docs '22: Batata Director on Life at a Lebanese Potato Farm/Refugee Camp through Syria and ISIS
Hot Docs '22: Our Picks for the World’s Biggest & Best Documentary Film Festival
By Original-Cin Staff
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekHot Docs, Hot Docs 2022, Batata, Category: Woman, The Kids in the Hall: Comedy Punks, Attica, SAM NOW, Relative, We Feed People, Million Dolla Pigeons, Make People Better, Framing Agnes, The Killing of a Journalist, Into the Weeds, Still Working 9 to 5, How Saba Kept Singing
Truman and Tennessee: Documentary Captures Prickly Literary Giants In Soft Glow of Nostalgia
ReviewJim SlotekTruman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, documentary, Hot Docs, David Frost, Dick Cavett
Strike A Pose: Doc Follows Dancers from Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour After the Lights Dimmed
Review, PreviewJim SlotekStrike a Pose, Docuementary, Hot Docs, Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan, Madonna, Music documentaries, 1990s, Jean Paul Gauthier, Truth or Dare
Hot Docs #3: What To See (and Skip) at the World’s Best Documentary Festival
By Original-Cin Staff
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Hot Docs 2021: Big, Bold Documentary Festival Is Just What our Weary World Needs Now
By Original-Cin Staff
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Preview, ViewsJim SlotekHot Docs, Hot Docs 2021, Sieged: The Press vs. Denialism, Wuhan Wuhan, Viral, Help, I’ve Gone Viral!, Set!, The Taste of Desire, Man in the Field: The Life and Art of Jim Denevan, Come Back Anytime, Dead Man’s Switch a crypto mystery, The Caviar Connection, Gaucho Americano, A Black Jesus, The Last Shelter, Tanya Talaga’s Spirit to Soar, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy, Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm, Fanny: The Right to Rock, The Sparks Brothers, Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché, Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson, Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), 7 Years of Lukas Graham, Preview, Roundup, Tanya Talaga
Original-Cin Hot Docs Interview: Tanya Talaga talks Spirit to Soar and Thunder Bay Indigenous youth murders amid the beauty of the North
InterviewJim SlotekThunder Bay Indigenous youth deaths, Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City, Fort William First Nation, Spirit to Soar, Hot Docs, Julian Falconer, Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Aboriginal Legal Services, Sioux North High School, Sioux Lookout, Richard Wagamese, David Adams Richards, Miramichi, Michelle Desrosier, Hot Docs 2021., Canadian Spectrum
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: Free Documentary Series a Midwinter Gift
Finding Sally: Riveting Doc Traces Family’s Search for a Lost Aunt… And the Truth
By Linda Barnard
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Your weekend-less guide: What to watch that's NOT in the theatres
ReviewJim SlotekCOVID-19 effect on movies, Hot Docs, Barry Avrich, Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, CBC Gem, Kim Kardashian-West: The Justice Project, Saigon Metalhood: Vietnam’s Heaviest Story, Ken Jennings, Jeopardy!, The Game Show Network, Mrs. America, Cate Blachett, Rose Byrne, Tracey Ullman, Phyllis Schlaffly, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Streamed movie roundups
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael Artfully Frames Famous New Yorker Film Critic
63 Up: Ace Doc Series Following Kids through Adulthood (and Beyond) Is Genuine Reality TV
Mike Wallace Is Here: Doc on Legendarily Tough TV Newsman Especially Timely
