Hot Docs 2015: The Wolfpack Review
The Wolfpack has all the elements of a fun, feel good documentary, that is if you ignore all the missing pieces that really make it sad and misjudged.
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Hot Docs 2015: Listen To Me Marlon Review
Listen To Me Marlon is a surreal, intimate look at the iconic Brando, with stories told through the use of interview clips, vintage footage and, most tellingly, a series of tapes that the actor made for himself as a kind of hypnotic therapy.
Hot Docs 2015: Best of Enemies Reviews
Best of Enemies delves into one of the most profound and influential moments of American political life: the debates between stalwart conservative William F. Buckley and iconoclastic progressive Gore Vidal.
Hot Docs 2015: Jesus Town, USA Review
Jesus Town is a whimsically comical look at a small, Oklahoma town, with an 88 year old passion play that has just cast an unlikely Jesus Christ.
Hot Docs 2015: Above and Below Review
A stylistic, visually compelling treatise on loneliness and isolation, Above and Below explores the lives of people living on the margins of society, separated from civilization by barriers, concrete and abstract alike.
Hot Docs 2015: The Nightmare Review
Rodney Ascher's documentary brings peoples worst dreams to life in The Nightmare, a chilling exploration of sleep paralysis.
Hot Docs 2015: Tig Review
Tig documents a year in the life of comedian Tig Notaro after being diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer and working this uncomfortable truth into one of the most revelatory stand-up sets of all time.
Hot Docs 2015: Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck Review
It’s hard not to see Brett Morgen’s documentation of Kurt Cobain’s life as anything short of definitive, using both character animation and wonderfully rendered motion graphics to present Cobain’s writings, musings and music in a visually stunning way.
Hot Docs: Raiders! Interview
Our in-depth interview with Tim Skousen, one of the co-directors of the wildly entertaining doc Raiders!, screening at this year's Hot Docs film fest.
Hot Docs 2015: Welcome To Leith Review
Pitched somewhere between a real world nightmare and sick black comedy, Welcome To Leith serves up a story so unlikely that it could only be real.
Hot Docs 2015: Rolling Papers Review
On January 1, 2014 the state of Colorado went ahead and legalized the sale of marijuana. We probably all assumed someone would make a documentary about it the following year. Sure enough, Mitch Dickman did exactly that and bit off a little more that he could chew.
Hot Docs 2015: Raiders! Review
Raiders! tells the story of three kids who decided to take up a video camera in 1982 and do a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark, a feat even more preposterous prior to the age of home video releases.
Hot Docs 2015: Live From New York! Review
Live From New York! is the latest talking heads documentary to chronicle the remarkable history of the Saturday Night Live and it plays out pretty much as you’d expect.
Hot Docs 2015: Pervert Park Review
Surely one of the most challenging entries in this year’s Hot Docs, Pervert Park dares to give a voice to and even strives to find empathy for a group of people who most viewers would rather pretend didn’t exist.
Hot Docs 2015: What Happened, Miss Simone? Review
More than a usual rise/fall biography, What Happened, Miss Simone? dives deep into the artist’s life, examining with sometimes uncomfortable detail the swath that she created both in her personal and professional life.
