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Hot Docs Day Six. No more exclamation points.Okay, I am quite sure I will hate documentaries by next week. I cannot take it anymore. I have now missed several films that I was very excited about at this time last week. I am very fickle! At the Death House Door looks at the life of Carroll Pickett, ... read morePosted on 04/25/2008 by Aaron 
Hot Docs Day Five!I am already feeling Doc Fatigue. That shit can get heavy, yo. So today i forego my original plan of a brutal death and war double bill in favour of checking out Man on Wire, the film about Phillipe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade ... read morePosted on 04/24/2008 by Aaron 
Hot Docs Day Four!I start my day by discovering I have spilled a large bottle of citrus oil degreaser in my courier bag. The contents of this waterproof bag have soaked up so much of this junk that I find a Slayer sweatshirt weighing about ten pounds and my Hot Docs program and ... read morePosted on 04/24/2008 by Aaron 
Hot Docs Day Three!Considering this is only the first weekend and third full day of screenings at Hot Docs, the Sunday schedule is remarkably weak. Or perhaps my taste is terrible? Either way, instead of going to screenings I spent the day drinking vodka and lemonade with a friend, then vodka and whatever ... read morePosted on 04/23/2008 by Aaron 
Hot Docs Day Two!My festival going is off to a quiet start. It takes a while for me to get revved to see ten hours of movies a day, so today I am only catching two joints: Nursery University and Beautiful Losers. Since 9/11 the population of pre-school age children in New York ... read morePosted on 04/22/2008 by Aaron 
Hot Docs Day One!Today was the first full day of Hot Docs in Toronto, the largest documentary film festival in North America. This is the fifteen year of the festival and Hot Docs is celebrating the achievement by screening over 170 documentaries from 36 countries. Big time stuff! I kicked off my slate ... read morePosted on 04/22/2008 by Aaron Peter Greenaway being boring.This past fall, Peter Greenaway took time out of his busy schedule of steadily re-treading the same aesthetic ground to announce the death of cinema at the Pusan Film Festival in Korea. He blames the 'remote-control zapper' for its demise, a term which pretty well manages to paint him ... read morePosted on 03/28/2008 by Aaron Sci fi failsThe science fiction fan site io9 has put together a report card of how several sci fi films fare in their depictions of physics. Unsurprisingly, most of them failed miserably. Take a look. Posted on 03/17/2008 by Aaron 
CARTOOOOONS!Some wonderful soul has collected and organized links to online videos of almost every Academy Award winning animated short since 1931. There are a few gaps, and granted this is hardly the ideal way to watch these films, BUT having the opportunity to watch any these rarities at all is ... read morePosted on 03/17/2008 by Aaron Box office as martian landscapeThe New York Times has posted a bizarrely beautiful interactive illustration of box office receipts from 1986 to 2007. Some horrible movies have made an amazing amount of money (I'm looking at you, Patch Adams)! Seeing how certain kinds of movies track over long periods of time or quickly ... read morePosted on 03/05/2008 by Aaron |
