HOT DOCS 2014: Reviews Set 2
Advance Hot Docs 2014 Reviews, Set 2, include: Doc of the Dead, Happiness, Khrushchev Does America, and Self(less) Portraits.
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Film: Doc of the Dead (2014)
With there being a good five documentaries on George A. Romero’s own zombie films, one would think any filmic treatise dealing with zombies in movies has been beaten to death (answer: a heavy leaning towards yes), so rather than regurgitate the familiar…
Film: Happiness (2013)
Thomas Balmès’ film begins with 1999 footage of Bhutan’s King Jigme Wangchuck declaring to a cheering populace his reluctant blessing to start rolling out the infrastructure for TV and internet in his rural mountainous nation…
Film: Khrushchev Does America (2013)
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’ …
Film: Self(less) Portraits (2014)
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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