Review Tag Archive

Live Action

Le Quattro Volte

Inanimate objects and cinema have never been the very best of friends. Despite attempts to personify them, some better than others (Ramin Bahrani’s 18

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Live Action

Win Win

Win Win isn’t a bad way of describing director Tom McCarthy’s career behind the camera to date, although Win Nominate might be slightly more

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Asides, Documentary, Music Video

An Island DVD & PWYW Download

We may have mentioned once or twice how much we loved the Vincent Moon / Efterklang collaboration An Island and with it hitting over 1,200 Private-Public

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Live Action

Hobo with a Shotgun

A train pulls into the station – it’s the end of the line. A Hobo jumps from a freight car, hoping for a fresh start in a new city. Instead, he

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Live Action

Blue Valentine DVD

Even before I’d seen a single frame of Derek Cianfrance’s second feature Blue Valentine (his 1998 debut Brother Tied is still unavailably trapped

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Live Action

Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter)

When I was young I developed two irrational fears, the first, bears, developed from a reoccurring dream I had. The second, trolls, originated from my

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Documentary, Film Festival

Hot Docs 2011: Day 4

The day began with the summit talk where top commissioners and broadcasters discussed the ways in which they open up funding opportunities and slots in support

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Documentary, Film Festival

Hot Docs 2011: Day 3

After a late night hanging out with the SDI, I went up to the Rogers industry centre to listen to a talk from some of the filmmakers who have feature docs in

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Documentary, Film Festival

Hot Docs 2011: Day 2

My day started with a forum discussion with some documentary broadcasters from True Stories, Discovery, POV and High Fidelity HD. It was interesting to hear

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Documentary, Film Festival

Hot Docs 2011: Day 1

This year my film PS Your Mystery Sender has been selected for the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto. Fortunately, they also invited me here to support it. As

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Live Action

On Tour

Burlesque has become a strangely popular form of entertainment over the last few years. It’s no accident that the renaissance of this tasteful type of

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Live Action

Rubber

Rubber opens with a shot of a chair nestling in the wilderness of an unknown American desert, the following shots reveal more chairs spread randomly across a

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