Filed under: Documentaries, Hot Docs Film Festival, Moviefone Canada
Hot Docs, North America's biggest documentary film festival, kicks off its 2011 run on April 28 in Toronto. Jam-packed with documentaries running through May 8, Moviefone Canada will be there from start to finish, offering up looks at some of the festival's noted films.
When alt-comic/anti-hipster-schlubb Harvey Pekar suddenly pops onto the screen with no identifying credit in Alan Zweig's 'Vinyl,' it becomes clear how this documentary reached cult status.
The late creator of the superhero-free comic, 'American Splendor,' simply weighs in on music and relationships, just like everyone else does in 'Vinyl.' Watch a little closer and there's Canadian writer/actor Don McKellar, director Guy Maddin, Daniel Richler, Bruce Labruce, and writer/columnist Geoff Pevere. Heck, Bruce MacDonald produced the thing. If these were the guys hanging with Zweig before he had an audience as a filmmaker,...
Hot Docs, North America's biggest documentary film festival, kicks off its 2011 run on April 28 in Toronto. Jam-packed with documentaries running through May 8, Moviefone Canada will be there from start to finish, offering up looks at some of the festival's noted films.
When alt-comic/anti-hipster-schlubb Harvey Pekar suddenly pops onto the screen with no identifying credit in Alan Zweig's 'Vinyl,' it becomes clear how this documentary reached cult status.
The late creator of the superhero-free comic, 'American Splendor,' simply weighs in on music and relationships, just like everyone else does in 'Vinyl.' Watch a little closer and there's Canadian writer/actor Don McKellar, director Guy Maddin, Daniel Richler, Bruce Labruce, and writer/columnist Geoff Pevere. Heck, Bruce MacDonald produced the thing. If these were the guys hanging with Zweig before he had an audience as a filmmaker,...
- 5/5/2011
- by Mark Wigmore
- Moviefone
Early this morning, Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival filled out the remainder of its line-up, capping North America's largest documentary film festival at 159 features. Like Tiff in September, which mixes Cannes and Venice 'Best-ofs' with world premieres, Hot Docs likewise has programmed an amalgam of Sundance and SXSW hits with an extra 33 films the world has never laid eyes on. The festival kicks off with Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, directed by the Oprah Winfrey of stunt documentary filmmakers, Morgan Spurlock. The film, a splash at both Sundance and SXSW, promises an engaging and provocative, if unsubtle, probing of David Lynch's favorite fundraising tactic: product placement. Among the notable films that will be playing in Toronto are award winners Dragonslayer, Kumaré, and Becoming Santa, all emerging victorious in Austin last week. Additionally, all eleven of Sundance's Documentary award winners will show up, giving docuphiles...
- 3/22/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Toronto -- "Polytechnique," a French-language movie that relives a 1989 Montreal college massacre of 14 women by a crazed gunman, on Monday night dominated the Genies, Canada's film awards, with nine trophies, including best film.
Denis Villeneuve earned a Genie for best director for "Polytechnique," Karine Vanasse won for best actress, and Maxim Gaudette, who played the role of gunman Marc Lapine, earned the best supporting actor prize.
The Quebec movie, which bowed in Cannes last year as part of the Directors' Fortnight, stirred controversy in French-speaking Canada when it was released last year for appearing to sensationalize a mass killing.
The film's producers, Maxime Remillard and Don Carmody ("Chicago"), were on hand in Toronto to accept the best picture hardware for "Polytechnique," which also took home a slew of craft awards.
Other Genie winners included the best actor trophy going to Joshua Jackson for his star turn in the Canadian road movie "One Week,...
Denis Villeneuve earned a Genie for best director for "Polytechnique," Karine Vanasse won for best actress, and Maxim Gaudette, who played the role of gunman Marc Lapine, earned the best supporting actor prize.
The Quebec movie, which bowed in Cannes last year as part of the Directors' Fortnight, stirred controversy in French-speaking Canada when it was released last year for appearing to sensationalize a mass killing.
The film's producers, Maxime Remillard and Don Carmody ("Chicago"), were on hand in Toronto to accept the best picture hardware for "Polytechnique," which also took home a slew of craft awards.
Other Genie winners included the best actor trophy going to Joshua Jackson for his star turn in the Canadian road movie "One Week,...
- 4/12/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Maxim Gaudette in Polytechnique The 30th Genie Awards will take place Monday, April 12 at Toronto’s Guvernment / Kool Haus Entertainment Complex. Best Motion Picture 3 saisons – Maude Bouchard, Jim Donovan, Sandy Martinez, Bruno Rosato Before Tomorrow – Stephane Rituit Fifty Dead Men Walking – Shawn Williamson, Stephen Hegyes, Peter La Terriere, Kari Skogland Nurse.Fighter.Boy – Ingrid Veninger Polytechnique – Maxime Remillard, Don Carmody Best Feature Length Documentary A Hard Name – Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon, Alan Zweig Les Dames En Bleu / Ladies In Blue – Claude Demers Inside Hana’s Suitcase – Larry Weinstein, Rudolf Biermann, Jessica Daniel Prom Night In Mississippi – Patricia Aquino, Paul Saltzman Rip: A Remix Manifesto – Mila Aung-Thwin, Kat Baulu, Brett Gaylor, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong Achievement [...]...
- 3/3/2010
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
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