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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Film: Sacro GRA (2013)
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…
Film: Songs of Rice, The / Pleng khong kao (2014)
One of Asia’s most vital staple foods is followed from planting to harvesting in director / cinematographer Uruphong Raksasad’s visual tone poem. A hefty chunk of the film’s tight running time is devoted to harvest festivals, with events spanning bull races, expansive dances, singing, religious offerings, and an insane set of fireworks…
The Ridge – the film, and maybe where Toronto is politically
Film review of Pablo Iraburu and Migueltxo Molina’s documentary The Ridge (2012), some thoughts on the upcoming Hot Docs 2014 Film Festival, Mondomark.com upgraded, and the municipal debate game show you likely missed tonight.
Film: Human Scale, The (2012)
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / H . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: n/a / DVD Extras: n/a Label: n/a/ Region: n/a / Released: n/a Genre: Documentary / Urban Planning / Architecture /Hot Docs 2013 Synopsis: Persuavive documentary on architectural ethnographer Jan Gehl and the movement to restore life to big city dead zones after decades […]
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