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Masters at Toronto International Film Festival 2021
The Toronto International Film Festival has always highlighted the newest works from master filmmakers from around the world. This year, even with its reduced lineup, is no exception. → Read More
An overview of DOC NYC 2021, largest documentary film festival in U.S.
The country’s largest documentary film festival, DOC NYC, is ready to begin its 2021 edition from November 10-18 in-person and online at www.docnyc.net. This 12th year of DOC NYC has a wealth of relevant films for progressive viewers. → Read More
High quality documentaries at Toronto International Film Festival
Documentaries are always of high quality at the Toronto International Film Festival, selected by a stellar team of programmers. Some of the highly recommended docs were reviewed in previous columns including Attica, Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace, Memory Box: Echoes of 9/11 and Oscar Peterson: Black... → Read More
Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is naturally the place to go to see great Canadian films, and there was no shortage this year. Of course, we all know about the highly anticipated remake of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic, Dune, by Canadian director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Arrival), which... → Read More
The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival: ‘Attica’ revisited
It was Vladimir Lenin at the start of the world’s first socialist revolution who made this impassioned and oft quoted statement “that of all the arts the most important for us is the cinema. → Read More
The best films of DOC NYC 2020
It’s been a strange and difficult year for film festivals, let alone for everything else! The excitement of gathering together to celebrate the awe and wonder of cinema along with the directors, actors and crew—is not happening this year. → Read More
Features from Iran at 2020 Toronto International Film Festival
Iran, yet another country in the bull’s-eye of U.S. imperialism, has probably one of the most humanist national cinemas in the world. Despite rabid U.S. → Read More
Modern-day China through Chinese eyes: reviews from Toronto International Film Festival
U.S. relations with China are possibly at an all-time low, although Washington has opposed the government since the victory of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. Today, both U.S. → Read More
Philadelphia’s MOVE and Black political culture on film at TIFF
It was over 35 years ago when Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo ordered the bombing of a townhouse in West Philly that was inhabited by dozens of militant Black revolutionaries, killing over 11 people inside the burning edifice, including women and children and the founder of the movement, John Africa. → Read More
Malcolm and Martin come to the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival
A couple of new films on the lives of two of the most prominent figures in the civil rights movement, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, were released at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. → Read More
‘The New Corporation’ at TIFF: No such thing as corporate social responsibility
Another most fitting film to premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival is the Canadian “unfortunately necessary” sequel to Mark Achbar’s The Corporation, the 2½ hour blockbuster doc released back in 2003 at TIFF. → Read More
‘The Inconvenient Indian’ at 2020 Toronto International Film Festival
It’s been such a strange year for film festivals. Events that usually gather hundreds or even thousands of movie fans sitting in close proximity are out of the question during the COVID-19 season. My favorite of them all, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), is no exception. → Read More
Toronto International Film Festival unveils daring comedy satire ‘Jojo Rabbit’
TORONTO—Certainly the hottest ticket at the 44th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was the daring comedy satire Jojo Rabbit by New Zealander comedian Taika Waititi. → Read More
Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival: War, a murder mystery and banks
TORONTO—Constantly in today's headlines and in our government's gunsight, is Islamic terrorism. Several films at this year’s Hot Docs addressed the mess being stirred up in the Middle East due to our foreign policy objectives of laying waste to lands sitting on, uh, our oil. → Read More
Hot Docs from Latin America: The latest harvest of films
TOTONTO—North America's premiere Hot Docs Festival in Toronto featured several new and intriguing documentaries from Latin America. A few stand out as reminders of atrocities that were committed in the struggle for social liberation across the continent. → Read More
Chelsea Manning and Rohingya Muslims featured in new documentaries
TORONTO—Filmmaking has not only become more accessible to the masses but with newer technology, many documentaries are covering the news almost instantly. The Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival this year featured many timely stories that address current world issues. → Read More
Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival offers provocative fare
TORONTO—Hot Docs, the largest documentary film festival in North America, has been running from April 25 to May 5 in downtown Toronto. Jam packed with over 200 enticing titles, the festival provides progressive filmgoers with lots of thought-provoking options. → Read More
Two important films from Palestine at Toronto Festival
TORONTO—Certainly unique in the world, no other country has its borders—land, sea, and air—totally controlled by another country. What has been described as the world's largest open-air concentration camp has wreaked havoc on most all the people in the land of Palestine. → Read More
A critic’s highlights from the Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO—The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is one of the largest and most prestigious film festivals in the Western hemisphere. Wading through its roster of over 350 titles is a daunting task. → Read More
‘Fahrenheit 11/9’: Ticket to Michael Moore’s latest film a hot item
TORONTO—One of the hottest tickets at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this year was for the North American debut of Fahrenheit 11/9, Michael Moore's latest hopeful offering for creating social and political change. → Read More