Tribeca 2013: ‘The Broken Circle Breakdown’ Harmoniously Makes You Laugh and Cry
The Broken Circle Breakdown Netherlands, 2012 Directed by: Felix van Groeningen Bjorn Eriksson’s original score of electrifying bluegrass melodies performed throughout Felix van Groeningen’s The…
Fantasia Announces the Selected Projects of the 2nd Edition of the Frontières International Co-Production Market
For the unfamiliar, Montreal is a city which hosts at least one film festival each and every month of the year. Of the dozens of…
Hot Docs 2013: Award Winners and More Esoteric Recommendations
Well, the festival is over and the docs are flying south (and west, and east – and maybe even north) for the summer – hopefully…
Best of Tribeca Film Festival 2013
1. Northwest Directed By: Michael Noer Denmark, 2013 Power and money are the vital forces in this high octane crime thriller. When organized crime grabs…
Hot Docs 2013: ‘Teenage’ strikes a blow for demography
Teenage Directed by Matt Wolf Written by Matt Wolf & John Savage USA, 2013 Adolescence was the greatest demographic discovery and invention of the mid-20th century.…
Hot Docs 2013: ‘The Last Black Sea Pirates’ drops anchor in the uncharted waters between hope and despair
The Last Black Sea Pirates Directed by Svetoslav Stoyanov Written by Vanya Rainova Bulgaria, 2013 The sea has always provided the last refuge (or final resting…
Hot Docs 2013: ‘Blackfish’ plunges into the abyss of marine mammal exploitation
Blackfish Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite USA, 2013 Forty-nine years ago, agents of the Vancouver Aquarium harpooned a 15-foot long orca (later dubbed “Moby Doll”) and…
Sundance London Film Festival 2013: ‘Upstream Color’ is a phenomenal film concerned with phenomena
In William Gibson’s 2003 novel Pattern Recognition a mysteriously binary filmmaker slowly and anonymously drip feeds footage of his homebrew masterpiece to an eagerly seduced…
Hot Docs 2013: ‘The Punk Singer’ presents an intimate and insightful take on Kathleen Hanna
The Punk Singer Directed by Sini Anderson USA, 2013 One of the most energetic and iconoclastic aesthetic/political movements in the history of popular expression, 1970s…
Tribeca 2013: ‘The Rocket’ and ‘Bridegroom’ Win Heineken Audience Award
Tribeca’s 12th annual festival, running from April 17-28, wrapped up the festival by announcing The Rocket and Bridegroom winners of the Heineken Audience Award. Read below…
Ebertfest 2013 Roundtable
Ebertfest was a blast this year, with a memorable and moving program of 12 films, 2 short films, several panels, and many surprises spread out…
Tribeca 2013: ‘A Birder’s Guide to Everything’ offers poignant insights on the value of community
A Birder’s Guide to Everything USA, 2013 Directed by Rob Meyer Written by Rob Meyer and Luke Matheny A Birder’s Guide to Everything is a…
