On the first official day of Hot Docs 2012 following last night's gala, Canadian content dominates our reviews with looks at El Huaso, The Final Member, Legend of a Warrior, Crimes Without Honour, Who Cares?, and Fists of Pride . We also take a look at Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, My Thai Bride, Her Master's Voice, Planet of Snail, Colombianos, Ping Pong, and Laura
We break out the big guns for today's Hot Docs 2012 preview with a lot of titles that have gone rush, including Indie Game: The Movie, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, Detropia, Finding Truelove, Bones Brigade: An Autobiography, and The World Before Her . Also looks at Sexy Baby, Mom and Me, Beware of Mr. Baker, and The Job.
Hot Docs 2012 Preview Day 3 and the hits just keep on coming with looks at China Heavyweight , In the Year of Hip Hop , Brooklyn Castle , The Frog Princes , Finding North , Radioman , Low and Clear , and The Betrayal .
Our first batch of reviews for Hot Docs 2012 are in! Today we have a look at opening night film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , The Invisible War , Wildness , Smoke Traders , Playing the Fool , Jeff , The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche , Inocente , The Great Liberty , and James Franco's Francophrenia (Or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) .
That Shelf talks to Tchopitoulas co-director Turner Ross about the latest documentary he made with his brother Bill and what it's like to film with kids in the almost magical city of New Orleans.
Arriving just in time for Record Store Day, the documentary Sound It Out will appeal most to the people who still love their local vinyl and CD emporiums.
Just in time for Earth Day, Disney Nature returns with a look at the closest primate relatives to humans.
Lee Hirsch’s new documentary Bully is an undeniably powerful experience that at least wins points for having its heart in the right place even if it doesn’t quite offer as definitive of an examination as the subject deserves.
The documentary Fightville succeeds in putting a human face to the sometimes inhuman sport of MMA fighting.
We had an extensive conversation with Bully director Lee Hirsch about the gritty nature of making a documentary about schoolyard bullies, his film's battles with the MPAA in the States, and his hopes for the film to bring about real change.
While definitely more of a straight regurgitation of facts than anything substantial, film buffs will get a real kick out of Corman's World .
No matter what one's personal thoughts are on the industrial and art rock music scenes - and particularly the works of Genesis P-Orridge - you've never seen a love story quite like this one.
Aside from the rarity of being a twin (roughly only 33 out of every thousand births are multiples of any kind), being born at the same time as another human being imparts a special bond that people born through single births simply can’t understand. Growing side by side as their bodies develop turns into growing older at the same rate and often going through the same familial issues. It’s the shared experience of brothers and sisters – complete with different personalities and personal quirks – amplified even further through closer proximity. But what happens when someone’s biological other half passes away?
While watching Once is a prerequisite before going into this film and having a love for the band’s non-film related material will help, the audience for this film really begins and ends with Swell Season fans and the mildly curious.
Since 1999, the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival has been bringing some of the best environmentally conscious films from around the world to the city. Featuring nearly 100 films, the 2011 edition of Planet in Focus kicks off tomorrow and runs until Sunday, October 16th.
