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Fanny: The Right to Rock Review: Honoring Forgotten Female Rockers of the Early 1970s Fanny: The Right to Rock Review: Honoring Forgotten Female Rockers of the Early 1970s Female trailblazers in the heyday of "cock rock" are given their belated due in Bobbi Jo Harts engaging documentary. Dennis Harvey, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Bobbi Jo Hart With: Jean Millington, June Millington, Brie Darling, Alice de Buhr, Patti Quatro, Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, Kathy Valentine, Todd Rundg...

NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: Dirty Tricks Slick documentary about a cheating scandal in the world of competitive bridge collapses like a house of cards By Norman Wilner NN Is the high-stakes world of competitive bridge just a cesspool of malfeasance, with teams cheating left and right to come out on top? That’s the impression you might get from producer/director Sivan’s slickly packaged true-crime doc about the cheating scandal that derailed Lotan Fisher, an Israeli prodigy whose ...

, by Isabel Coixet, for example. Personally, what interests me the most is the idea of starting with this artificial universe — a universe that has gone off the rails or begun to decline — and looking at each individual element to see what’s underneath. So, while the films you mention smoothed the way in some respects, for me Magaluf is a distinctive character in its own right, not just another setting. Things happen there that couldn’t happen anywhere else. I love books and...

film profile], showing a small nursing home in Denmark where employees can actually take their time getting to know each resident, goes back and forth between a dream scenario and your biggest nightmare. For all its pastel colours and perfectly arranged snacks, it still shows people with dementia being forced to leave their own homes and taken to another place by their exhausted families, who are no longer able to care for them. “It must have been prepared,” says one of them resignedly, po...

Magaluf Ghost Town hands us a guilty pleasure, a cinematic ensaimada in which each layer offers a different texture. At times, Blanca tears us away from the ruckus to check in with the resort’s handful of year-round residents, for whom low-cost tourism is both a vital source of income and a monumental headache, creating a dichotomous relationship between locals and visitors convinced they’ve landed in a hedonistic paradise. This aspect of the film is grounded in reality: Blanca makes use o...

Director Daniel Sivan examines a cheating scandal that rocked the world of elite competitive bridge, exposing that the world of elite competitive bridge exists in the documentary 'Dirty Tricks.'

Even those familiar with the legacy of Sesame Street will discover new and fascinating things about the show’s history in the new documentary Street Gang

Oscar-Nominated The Mole Agent Producer Readies Firefighter Doc Piropolis (EXCLUSIVE) Christopher Vourlias, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Variety has learned exclusively. Set against a backdrop of protest, pandemic and social unrest in the city of Valparaíso, “Piropolis” follows the firefighters of the fifth company as they battle the epic forest fires raging around their city. Directed by Chilean filmmaker Nicolás Molina, whose latest feature “Gaucho Americano” (pictured) premie...

Producer-Director Jennifer Holness’ ‘Subjects of Desire’ Opens Doors to New Doc Projects (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 7 hrs ago Known as a producer of award-winning Canadian documentary and narrative films, a showrunner and, more recently, as the cofounder of Canada’s newly minted Black Screen Office, Jennifer Holness is chatting up her feature-doc directorial debut, “Subjects of Desire,” this week at Hot Docs where it screens in Special Presentations. In an interview with Variety before ...

NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: Someone Like Me Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adamss documentary about a queer refugee from Uganda and his Canadian sponsors hits home By Norman Wilner NNNN A look at Canadian refugee sponsorship that opens up into something larger, Someone Like Me follows a group of Vancouver residents from different backgrounds (and generations) who come together via the Rainbow Refugee Society in the fall of 2019 to sponsor a queer refugee from Uganda. It’s a righteous cau...