Documentary News
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This week’s releases include a witty horror picture; a renowned miniseries from the ‘80s; a movie based on a New York Time’s bestseller; and a missed opportunity.
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'Video Games: the Movie' is a very informative documentary, but is severely lacking in the substance, education, and fun department.
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‘Manakamana’ is an ethnographic documentary composed of 11 long takes chronicling the cable car pilgrimage to worship at Nepal’s Manakamana temple.
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Autism activist and Chicago Mom Lisa Goes of the Thinking Moms' Revolution or TMR as well as other 'Thinking' Moms in the group have been featured in the introduction of a new documentary film called 'Moms Determined.'
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Could you forgive your brother if he killed your mother? What if he did so because he was schizophrenic? John Kastner's 'Out of Mind, Out of Sight' is a moving and empathetic look into a Brockville, Ont. mental institution.
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On a basic level, 'The Creator of the Jungle' is a story about a man who builds huge wooden structures and stars in homemade Tarzan movies. On a thematic level, it's about the unrelenting pursuit of art that lasts.
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If you're out of work but could make a six-figure salary elsewhere, would you move? But more importantly, will "elsewhere" be willing to take you in? Jesse Moss takes viewers into Williston, North Dakota in his moving doc, 'The Overnighters.'
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Joe Arpaio is probably the most infamous sheriff in all of the United States. Unsurprisingly, 'The Joe Show' feeds well off the controversy to build a portrait of a loved and hated public figure,
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At some point in our lives we all wish we were out in the world having adventures. Matthew VanDyke took this to its logical extreme, and 'Point and Shoot' chronicles his transition from adventurer to revolutionary.
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Hot Docs Film Festival showcases some of the best documentaries from around the world. We look at ‘Beijing Ants’; ‘The Condemned’; ‘The Engineer’; and ‘No Lullaby.’
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Nothing makes for more interesting viewing than the clash of two cultures; in 'Wonder World of Ice,' it's a group of Chinese sculptors living in a slow-moving Finnish town. In 'Bugarach,' a French town gets unwanted attention from New Age fanatics.
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'Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case' is a new documentary tracing the Chinese artist’s life post-incarceration. Its filmmaker says you don’t have to love Ai’s art to appreciate the story of a human being facing incredible odds.
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High-profile subjects are generally included in Hot Docs Film Festival’s “Special Presentations” programme. We look at ‘Concerning Violence’; ‘Silenced’; and ‘Watchers of the Sky.’
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Given the advancement of technology and the state of the modern economy, it seems like the volume of hotline calling should be falling. In fact, call rates are on the rise, and 'Hotline' shows why they're still relevant.
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It's impossible to talk about Ai Weiwei's art on its own. "I'm not a political artist, I'm just political," Ai says at one point in Andreas Johnsen's film, and it perfectly sums up the outspoken artist.
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One of the criteria for inclusion in the Hot Docs Film Festival “Special Presentations” programme is high-profile subjects. We look at ‘Nelson Mandela: The Myth and Me’; ‘The Notorious Mr. Bout’; and ‘Whitey: United States of America v. Jame
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Giuseppe Andrews made a small name for himself playing parts in films like 'Independence Day' and 'Detroit Rock City' but now creates strange independent films. 'Giuseppe Makes a Movie' follows him as he creates one in two days.
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Matthew "Mateo" Stoneman makes a living in Los Angeles as a mariachi singer. As if that wasn't bizarre enough, 'Mateo' tells a globetrotting tale layered with complexity.
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"Even an old goat likes a lick of the salt." An old woman says this near the middle of the documentary, and it perfectly sums up the theme of Ágnes Sós' 'Stream of Love.'
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‘Doc of the Dead’ explores zombie culture through interviews with some of the movement’s most notable contributors and fans.
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Toronto -
Internet dating is big business, particularly overseas, where Ukrainian and Russian women sign up in droves to meet American men.
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Hot Docs Film Festival showcases its homegrown talent in the “Canadian Spectrum” programme. We look at three selections: ‘Everything Will Be,’ ‘Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story’ and ‘The Theory of Happiness’.
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‘Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story’ chronicles one couple’s vow to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food – a pledge that leads to jaw-dropping findings.
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Hot Docs Film Festival adds “Love, Factually” to this year’s programme, featuring documentaries about people in love, looking for love and everything in between. We look at three selections: ‘Love & Engineering,’ ‘Love Hotel’ and ‘Love Me'
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In ‘Love Me’, single men and women abandon their comfort zones to look for love in a foreign land via international dating websites.
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In this short documentary, we learn about the ongoing resistance by the Spanish people to the economic and social crisis, the effects of budget cuts and austerity measures and how people are self-organizing to survive.
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‘The Galápagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden’ is the true-crime tale of idealistic dreams gone awry in the strange and alluring landscape of the Galápagos Islands in the 1930s.
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A new Bruce Springsteen documentary for the album "High Hopes" premieres on HBO on Friday, April 4. Good news for fans of "The Boss" but the film may disappoint the diehards.
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This week’s releases include a comedy of epic proportions; a definitive ‘80s action movie; a behind the curtain look at an ultimate force; and a prologue worthy of its inspiration.
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Much of what we know about Robert De Niro has played out on the screen, and his latest film venture will show us a whole lot more about the intensely-private actor who seldom grants interviews or ventures out to public events.
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Crow Street Films
'Who The F**k Is Arthur Fogel?' screens at the TIFF Lightbox Friday, March 22nd at 7pm; Fogel himself will interviewed by Larry LeBlanc earlier in the day at the Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel.
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Hot Docs
Mugshot of James "Whitey" Bulger in 'Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger'
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Vimeo
A documentary has been produced of the Gezi Park protest which transformed into a countrywide protest in Turkey.
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PBS
Johnny Carson, the host of The Tonight Show"
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Universal Home Entertainment
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BURN
BURN opens in Toronto May 3
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Hot Docs
Viktor Bout in 'The Notorious Mr. Bout'
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Courtesy HotDocs
Kim Longinotto's film Gaea Girls, following female wrestlers in Japan
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Jonathan Kalafer
Teacher and chorus master Gregg Breinberg walks down a hall at PS22 in Staten Island. Director Jonathan Kalafer says his documentary has a deeper thread: "The PS22 Chorus story shows us that when a teacher is given the freedom to choose the direction of their curriculum and has the support of the administration, the sky is really the limit."
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Jonathon Narducci
Jonathon Narducci's "Love Me" screens as part of 2014 Hot Docs festival.
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams website
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CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou will be starring in a documentary about whistleblowers called "Silenced".
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Denis Bourez from France/Wikimedia Commons
A wax representation of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is shown from Madame Tussauds in London.
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