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Shinan: Anita Hill and her little blue dress are ready for their Hot Docs...

“For one, it doesn’t fit,” says Anita Hill. That’s the one-time flashpoint in American political history, talking about the famous blue dress she wore during a moment of electrifying reality TV: the...

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Behind the music piracy: Downloaded chronicles the rise and fall of Napster

Nearly 15 years after he and Shawn Fanning revolutionized the world by uploading an early version of Napster onto Download.com, Sean Parker stood onstage at Austin’s Paramount Theatre and gave...

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This is the real life: Mini reviews of this year’s Hot Docs films

The 20th annual Hot Docs film festival is underway until May 5, with scores of offerings that include a mini-retrospective on Peter Mettler, a spotlight on Poland, a look back at the career of the...

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Out of Mind, Out of Sight named best Canadian documentary as Hot Docs hands...

Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival wraps this weekend, with $66,000 in prizes handed out to participating films. And the winners are … The best Canadian feature documentary award was presented to Out of...

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Ida, The German Doctor, The Lady in Number Six: Music Saved My Life echo the...

The Holocaust continues to cast a long and varied shadow over our cultural landscape. Seventy years on, with the number of actual survivors dwindling, the stories and lessons from that time continue to...

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Alcan Highway: A 'real and surreal' drive from Alaska to Vancouver Island

Two weeks on the Alcan Highway. A total of nearly 4,000 kilometres. A dangerous fire at the side of the most beautiful stretches of road in North America. And it all started with an eBay listing from...

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Comedian Tig Notaro to headline Hot Docs film festival

Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival announced its 2015 festival Tuesday morning, and its lineup is more diverse than ever. “This year we are showcasing work from 45 different countries,” said Charlotte...

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On Montage of Heck and the continued canonization of Kurt Cobain

In October 1993, journalist Michael Azerrad published Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana, a 344-page book detailing the rise of the Seattle group at the height of its popularity. Six months later,...

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Listen to Me Marlon explores the method to Brando’s madness

“Everything is a cliché,” insists the late Marlon Brando in the new documentary Listen to Me Marlon — as much the actor’s attitude toward art as this documentary’s covert thesis. Brando hated stock...

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Best of Enemies, ‘articulated by two iconic wordsmiths': When the culture...

In early August 1968, in the middle of the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Gore Vidal sat down with William F. Buckley to talk about politics on TV. The idea was to host a lively debate:...

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Stay Awhile, reviewed: The song remains the same

Stay Awhile Rating: Director: Jessica EdwardsWriting Credit: Jessica EdwardsRated: 1970s easy listening; nothing to trouble young earsGenre: DocumentaryDuration: 71 minutesRelease date: Apr 24, 2015...

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Being Canadian director: ‘I would never go to the ‘eh’ well’

Being Canadian is a documentary with lots of wit, and the good sense to avoid the temptation of calling itself, Being Canadian, Eh. “I would never go to the ‘eh’ well, ” says Calgary-born director Rob...

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Thank You for Playing is an elegant, heart-wrenching documentary statement...

Documentaries about video games and the people who make them have become increasingly common, but few dare dive as deeply into the soul of a game maker as Thank You for Playing. Directed by Malika...

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Truth be told: Behind the documentary shell game

I promise that everything you read in this article is true. I write that to put you at ease, to assure you that you don’t need to engage your hair-trigger capacity for skepticism, to emphasize that...

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This year’s eclectic Hot Docs festival takes us from burlesque dancers to...

The Hot Docs documentary festival has announced its 2016 lineup, with 232 titles from 51 countries. The 11-day festival kicks off April 28 with the world premiere of Rama Rau’s League of Exotique...

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From Operation Avalanche to Sour Grapes, here are the 10 films to see at the...

Gone are the days of the presumed boredom and dreaded narrative of a documentary film. With the Hot Docs Film Festival, which runs from April 28 to May 8, an entire slew of oddball eccentricities prove...

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‘Things are going to happen to you’: Film details dark underworld of...

At first glance, competitive endurance tickling seems like so many other unusual pursuits that flourish online. Buff men gather in a nondescript Los Angeles studio, give brief on-camera interviews...

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Just what the docs ordered: Hot Docs festival features expanded form and...

At this year’s Hot Docs — officially the Canadian International Documentary Festival — you can binge on eight hours of O.J. Simpson: Made in America; catch a 45-second “micro-doc” before a screening;...

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Hot Docs film dashes immigration fantasy, reveals harsh world of migrant...

Every year thousands of workers from countries as diverse as Jamaica and Thailand travel to Canada to work in greenhouses in Leamington, Ont., an area renowned for its tomato production. The tomatoes...

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How Matt Johnson fooled NASA into letting him make a mockumentary about a...

You could make a documentary about how Toronto filmmaker Matt Johnson snuck into NASA’s mission control in Houston to make a fake documentary about a faked moon landing. Except, wait, he’s already done...

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