INSIDE OUT 2012 (Toronto) Starring Ryan Vigilant, Karmine Alers, and Benjamin Weaver Directed by Richard LeMay Naked As We Came is beautifully shot, its cinematography reminiscent of Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights, both using deep colours to depict the flora surrounding tumultuous country life. Although in Naked, the country house is a slick, white, one-floor BauhausContinue reading “INSIDE OUT 2012 (Toronto) – Naked as We Came Review (Paolo Kagaoan)”
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Gun Hill Road Review (Paolo Kagaoan)
Gun Hill Road was in the selection for last year’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival. It was screened at the Revue Cinema in Toronto last Sunday night as a preview of the diverse, complex and cinematic perspectives to come in this year’s program. Gun Hill Road is overcast, beginning by showing the last days ofContinue reading “Gun Hill Road Review (Paolo Kagaoan)”
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – Festival Wrap-up
Subscribers to Entertainment Maven have had their inboxes and Facebook pages barraged over the last ten or so days with our coverage of Toronto’s massive documentary film festival, Hot Docs 2012. Despite our feverish reviewing, we still only managed to scratch the surface of this incredible festival. Below are three different wrap-ups of the festivalContinue reading “HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – Festival Wrap-up”
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – ChickFlicking – Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby is) Review (Nadia Sandhu)
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby is) Directed by James Franco and Ian Olds James Franco. General Hospital. James Franco. Three reasons that experimental doc Francophrenia (Or Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) requires closer examination on ChickFlicking (Full disclosure – I have inContinue reading “HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – ChickFlicking – Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby is) Review (Nadia Sandhu)”
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – The Record Breaker/Ping Pong (Double-bill) Reviews (Kirk Haviland)
HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) The Record Breaker Directed by Brian McGinn Ping Pong Directed by Hugh Hartford In my last official Hot Docs review of the 2012 festival I will look at this double-bill devoted to athletes in their mature years still executing at the highest competitive levels. One film follows a man with theContinue reading “HOT DOCS 2012 (Toronto) – The Record Breaker/Ping Pong (Double-bill) Reviews (Kirk Haviland)”
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