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Hot Docs 2010 Preview
A couple of weeks ago I attended the kickoff press conference for the 2010 edition of the Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival – North America’s largest documentary film festival and,...
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Hot Docs Review: Life With Murder
Anyone who is a parent will walk a fine line between empathy and judgment for the Jenkins family of Chatham, Ontario (Canada) while watching this documentary whodunit. When their 18-year-old...
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Hot Docs Review: Space Tourists
If there is one thing I can accuse of acclaimed director Christian Frei (War Photographer), it is that he somehow made a boring documentary about space exploration. This is not an insult to him or...
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Hot Docs Review: Grace, Milly, Lucy…Child Soldiers
It’s beyond comprehension. 80% of the Lord’s Resistance Army – a Ugandan rebel group – is made up of children. 30000 children (over the last 20 years) have been abducted from their homes and...
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Hot Docs Review: Shinjuku Boys
It’s 7AM and as the streets of Tokyo start to come alive, a group of Onnabes leave the New Marilyn Club to head back home. After a long night of entertaining customers at the club and singing...
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Hot Docs Review: Eat The Kimono
Hanayagi Genshu certainly is an interesting woman. She’s a dancer, singer, storyteller, political activist, feminist and even a former inmate. She travels throughout Japan to perform her...
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Hot Docs: And Everything Is Going Fine
****½ (4.5/5) With only a desk, a glass of water, a few props and some cursory notes, Spalding Gray would sit before a live audience and tell them his story. Whether about his knowledge of death...
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Hot Docs Capsule Reviews – The “I Love You Man” Edition
As Hot Docs 2010 kicks into full gear, here’s a sampling of a few of the films I managed to see in the lead up to the fest: Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage (2010 – Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen) –...
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Hot Docs: The Parking Lot Movie Review
What happens when you throw a bunch of over-educated graduate students, slacker musicians and other creative and testosterone-loaded souls into a job where absolutely nothing is required of them...
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Hot Docs Review – A Small Act
I‘m pretty sure I just saw the Audience Award winner of Hot Docs 2010. If I was a betting man, I’d plop a nice chunk of change down on A Small Act coming out on top after all the votes have been...
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Hot Docs Capsule Reviews – The Technology vs Nature Edition
As Hot Docs 2010 winds down, here’s another sampling of a few of the films I’ve caught over the last week: Soundtracker (2010 – Nicholas Sherman) – Tracking down sounds is indeed exactly what...
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Hot Docs 2010 Awards
As Hot Docs 2010 has wrapped for another year – their most successful year ever by the way – now is the time to review some of the award winners. The Audience Award winner was announced today...
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Hot Docs 2010 – The Kids Grow Up
Director Doug Block (51 Birch Street) is an obsessive documentarian. He seems to have endless footage of his daughter throughout her life – following her around, asking her questions – and...
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Hot Docs 2010 – Waste Land
It’s where everything not good goes – including people. The Jardim Gramacho landfill outside of Rio De Janeiro is the largest in the world in terms of the volume of refuse received to it on a...
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Hot Docs 2010 – Marwencol
After spending 40 days in a coma – the result of a brutal beating outside a bar – Mark Hogancamp woke up. He woke up a different person, though, with significant brain damage and a great deal of...
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Hot Docs Capsule Reviews – The Final Cut Edition
The 17th Annual Hot Docs festival wrapped up a week and a half ago, so I should probably wrap things up as well. After 28 features and 4 shorts, I’m starting to see double…Here’s the last batch of...
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