Tag: NFB

Dear Guelda, Part 2: Julian Roffman Rediscovered in Print + Film

Dear Guelda, Part 2: Julian Roffman Rediscovered in Print + Film

February 9, 2018 | By

Follow-up profile of pioneering filmmaker Julian Roffman includes a book review of Dear Guelda, reviews of selected short films, and the features Sarumba (1950), The Bloody Brood (1959), and Spy in Your Eye (1965).

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Film: And So They Live (1940) / Up from the Ranks (1943) / The Proudest Girl in the World (1944) / Nahanni (1962)

Film: And So They Live (1940) / Up from the Ranks (1943) / The Proudest Girl in the World (1944) / Nahanni (1962)

February 9, 2018 | By

Reviews of 4 Selected Shorts by Julian Roffman: And So They Live (1940), Up from the Ranks (1943), The Proudest Girl in the World (1944), and Nahanni (1962).

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Gysin and Burroughs’ Dreamachine

Gysin and Burroughs’ Dreamachine

July 28, 2015 | By

Reviews of two docs on a very trippy gizmo requiring no drugs or alcohol: William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine (2015) from Cult Epics + FLicKeR (2008) from Alive Mind.

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HOT DOCS 2014: Reviews Set 5

HOT DOCS 2014: Reviews Set 5

May 7, 2014 | By

Hot Docs 2014 Reviews, Set 5, include four NFB docs: Absences (2014), Guidelines / La marche à suivre (2014), Out of Mind, Out of Sight (2014) and Where I’m From / D’où je viens (2014).

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Film: Absences (2014)

Film: Absences (2014)

May 7, 2014 | By

As her own mother’s mental health disintegrates from the gradual effects of Alzheimer’s, director Carole Laganière seeks to understand how a major absence effects people (namely adults with traumatic events in their youthful pasts), but in the process of making this film, she also creates an absence…

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