Fest Notebook: Form-Busting Films Get Warm Welcome at Hot Docs
If you want to take the temperature of the documentary, go to Toronto in the spring, when Hot Docs delivers its cinema-crazed citizenry the cream of global nonfiction.
John Anderson
Film Review: 'Chimeras'
This intellectually bracing, visually arresting documentary goes far beyond character study into a search for Chinese identity.
Film Review: 'Expedition to the End of the World'
With a mood and setting worthy of a murder story by Jack London, this audience-friendly, atmospheric work explores the ice-blocked fjords of northeastern Greenland.
Film Review: 'Alcan Highway'
Less a road movie than a trying-to-get-on-the-road movie, "Alcan Highway" is a rustic, picaresque adventure about a rootless 44-year-old Finn in Alaska, trying to drive to Vancouver in his dream…
Film Review: 'The Manor'
There's more than a faint echo of 'Grey Gardens' in this Canadian-gothic portrait of an unusual family business.
Film Review: 'Leonie'
Failing to carve anything graceful or fluid out of a slab of biography, helmer Hisako Matsui does bring to light a curious and intriguing story of a great-woman-behind-a-great-man in "Leonie"…
Film Review: 'Upside Down'
"Upside Down" is a dystopic sci-fi romance about inverted planets that will have auds wondering which way is up, but not really caring much or for very long. The film, Argentine helmer Juan Solanas'…
Review: “Circles”
An unorthodox morality tale about Serb-on-Serb crime in which concentric narratives make for considerable resonance.
Review: “Manhunt”
Guaranteed to ratchet up the critical chatter surrounding the CIA and "enhanced interrogation," "Manhunt" also puts a very human face on the people behind the nearly 20-year hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Review: “The Square”
With the immediacy of a flash grenade, "The Square" captures a historical moment by inhabiting a political organism -- the ongoing Egyptian Revolution, filmed for two years in and around Tahrir…
