By John Corrado The 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 25th to May 5th in Toronto Filmmaker Tova Krentzman offers an intriguing glimpse into the lives of lookouts in her documentary Fire Tower, introducing us to some of the people who spend six months of the year in towers a hundred feet above… Read More #HotDocs24 Review: Fire Tower
By John Corrado The 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 25th to May 5th in Toronto Director Pamela Hogan’s documentary The Day Iceland Stood Still recounts the events of October 24th, 1975, when the majority of women in Iceland decided to protest by taking the day off work, to prove their importance to… Read More #HotDocs24 Review: The Day Iceland Stood Still
By John Corrado The 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 25th to May 5th in Toronto Directed by Michel Gondry’s friend and longtime assistant François Nemeta, the documentary Michel Gondry, Do It Yourself provides a delightful retrospective of the French music video director turned filmmaker’s career, and a joyful ode to the creative… Read More #HotDocs24 Review: Michel Gondry, Do It Yourself
By John Corrado The 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 25th to May 5th in Toronto During the COVID-19 lockdowns in England, out-of-work actors turned gamers Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen found themselves spending their days playing Grand Theft Auto, and decided to stage a production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet entirely within the… Read More #HotDocs24 Review: Grand Theft Hamlet
By John Corrado The 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival runs from April 25th to May 5th in Toronto In Echo of You, filmmaker Zara Zerny interviews a variety of elderly people in Denmark (both straight and gay) who have lost their life partners. They reminisce about how they met, the longevity of their relationships, how… Read More #HotDocs24 Review: Echo of You
The Joy of Movies 