HOT DOCS 2014: Reviews Set 1
Advance Hot Docs 2014 Reviews, Set 1, include: The Darkside, The Overnighters, Sacro GRA, Slums: Cities of Tomorrow, and The Songs of Rice.
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Hot Docs 2014, All the King’s Men, and Learning a Little from History
Head’s up on Hot Docs 2014, All the King’s Men arrives on Blu via Twilight Time, and some thoughts on Louisiana’s Huey Long and our own Mayor Bozo – Rob Ford – as the race to become Bigwig of Toronto begins in earnest.
Hot Docs 2013: Two by Rachel Boynton
Uploaded is the next-to-last review from Hot Docs 2013 – Rachel Boynton’s Big Men, about a small U.S. company’s efforts to maintain their interest in Ghana’s Jubilee Fields offshore oil reserve, plus a full review of the director’s first film, Our Brand is Crisis (KOCH / EOne), about American spin doctors managing a political candidate in Bolivia’s 2002 presidential elections.
Hot Docs 2013, Days Two to Five: Fascist Regimes, Hellish Conditions, and Shanghai Jazz + Saul Bass at 93
Uploaded are a quartet of documentary film reviews from Hot Docs, including the world’s oldest jazz band in As Time Goes By in Shanghai, the hellish world of asbestos mining in remote China in Cloudy Mountains, film school students in The Great North Korean Picture Show, and Russia’s tsarist President in the feature doc Winter, Go Away! shot during the 2012 elections + the short film Vladimir Putin in Deep Concentration. Also embedded within the Editor’s Blog: extyra blather on Saul Bass’ 93rd birthday, Kubrick at the Bloor, and upcoming goodies at KQEK.com and Big Head Amusements.
Hot Docs 2013, Day One: Terms and Conditions May Apply
The 20th Hot Docs Film Festival is underway, and uploaded is a capsule review of Cullen Hoback’s Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013), a chronology of how we’ve pretty much lost any sense of privacy by clicking on that “Accept” button found on every software, purchase and user aggreement to use free online services like Facebook and Google.
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