Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review
Tim Toidze’s background in editing and producing a multitude of historical films serves him well in this roughly hour-long chronology of Nikita Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to America where the shoe-banging ‘We will bury you’ …
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The personal reflections, confessions, and deeply private thoughts of 50 people might be a bit heavy at 98 mins., but Danic Champoux’s semi-experimental film is a meticulously arranged collage of human vulnerabilities, captured by a locked camera that occasionally slow-zooms towards the raconteurs…
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Director / cinematographer Warwick Thornton applies a very low-key approach to documenting sightings of and interactions with aboriginal ghosts in Australia, often locking off his camera and letting seated or standing actors (including the venerable Bryan Brown) perform highly personal recollections…
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Jesse Moss’ fly-on-the-wall documentary may have initially begun as a human interest piece about a small Lutheran church in Williston, North Dakota, where migrant workers find shelter and support during their search for work in the booming natural gas industry, but the checkered pasts of a few overnighters…
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Looping around Rome is Grande Raccordo Anulare, a circular highway that crosses over waterways, snakes through historic and not-so historic neighbourhoods, and over which scrape airplanes from its international airport, but nestled in every pocket, street corner, strip bar…
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