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NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: Gallant Indies Philippe Béziats documentary about a Paris Opera production integrating urban dance into baroque opera soars By Glenn Sumi NNNN Talk about storming the Bastille. In the fall of 2019, artist and film director Clément Cogitore and choreographer Bintou Dembélé mounted a revolutionary production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s baroque opera Les Indes Galantes that included 30 diverse dancers specializing in krump, voguing, flexing, popping – a...

Dead Mans Switch: a crypto mystery Gerald Cotten was the CEO of Canadas cryptocurrency exchange, QuadrigaCX, responsible for over $200 million in assets. While on his honeymoon in India, he died suddenly under mysterious circumstances, leaving investors empty-handed and with a lot of questions. This riveting 21st century crime caper explores human nature, greed and the pitfalls of navigating the Wild West of the unregulated cryptocurrency world.  Was Gerald Cottens death the last of his many s...

NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm Hannah Berrymans star-filled documentary about the legendary rural recording studio will evoke lots of nostalgia By Norman Wilner NNNN Watching Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm is like finding a first pressing of a beloved LP in a record store. Berryman’s history of the rural recording studio built by Welsh brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward on their family farm is designed to evoke the same warm, comforting nostalgia. ...

NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: The Sparks Brothers Edgar Wrights documentary about the prolific and influential musical siblings is rhapsodic By Norman Wilner NNNN Embodied by the unquantifiable voice of Russell Mael crooning his keyboardist brother Ron’s looping, complex lyrics about relationships, nature, commerce and existence itself – and backed by a constantly mutating mixture of expert musicians – Sparks has released 25 studio albums over half a century without ever sustaini...

NOW Magazine Hot Docs review: Summer Of Soul (… Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Ahmir “Questlove” Thompsons doc about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival is essential viewing for music fans By Kevin Ritchie Courtesy of Hot Docs Mavis Staples (left) and Mahalia Jackson share the mic in a scene from Summer Of Soul. SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) (Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson). 117 Minutes. Rating: NNNNN As a musician, podcaster an...

Doxa: The Gig is Up, and The Rumba Kings: 3½ + 4 Willy’s Wonderland: 1½ THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES: Netflix has got a terrific surprise with this animated feature. It’s not at all bland, but delightfully goofy. No wonder: the producers, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, gave us The Lego Movie, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and others. The director/co-writer duo, Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe, matched the zany fun of those movies, mixed in their childhood love of Saturday morning car...

NOW Magazine By Kevin Ritchie NN Influential Canadian designer Bruce Mau’s super clean aesthetic gains new dimensions in a documentary portrait that takes too long to go from perfunctory to fascinating. The directors seriously backload the movie’s most interesting material: how Mau’s working-class upbringing in Sudbury shaped a worldview that would attract Coca-Cola and the Saudi Arabian government. Mau is mostly laudatory but occasionally gently critical, extolling his optimism ...

CBC implements new strategy, brand for doc commissioning The pubcaster is widening its commissioning remit to put a focus on high-impact, globally focused documentary series, with Michelle McCrees role expanding to lead the rebranded banner, The Passionate Eye. April 30, 2021 Heading into Hot Docs 2021, CBC has made a number of changes to...

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Filmmaker hopes new doc on Canadian and other ISIS brides will help leave hatred behind, allow repatriation Hamilton native Kimberly Polman is among former ISIS brides featured in The Return: Life After ISIS by Alba Sotorra Clua, who hopes the new documentary — among featured films in the Hoc Docs Festival — will give insight into the issues surrounding repatriation. Social Sharing Alba Sotorra Clua asks for compassion as Hamiltons Kimberly Polman renews plea to be allowed to come home P...