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September 20, 2022

TIFF 2022: De humani corporis fabrica, by David Bax

First off, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel‘s De humani corporis fabrica is easily one of the best documentaries of the year. But before you scramble to be first in line for opening day, please be warned that it is chock...

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September 15, 2022

Riotsville, U.S.A.: Violence Through Strength, by David Bax

There’s no question why director Sierra Pettengill chose now to make her new documentary, Riotsville, U.S.A., about American military and police riot suppression training in the 1960s. In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and during the January...

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September 14, 2022

TIFF 2022: The Grab, by David Bax

It’s difficult, when writing about an issues-advocacy documentary–especially one as effective as Gabriela Cowperthwaite‘s The Grab–not to just turn around and spout back the lessons learned and truths uncovered by the movie, turning a review into a list of talking...

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August 18, 2022

Three Minutes: A Lengthening: Restoration, by David Bax

It’s only at the very beginning of Bianca Stigter‘s Three Minutes: A Lengthening that we actually watch the whole three minutes in question–footage shot by a vacationing American in Europe in 1938 on a Cine-Kodak Magazine–in full and without breaks,...

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August 18, 2022

The Territory: The Old Land, by David Bax

In Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and an anonymous third director’s chilling Indonesian genocide documentary The Act of Killing (which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival almost exactly ten years ago), there’s a shot where one of the perpetrators of the...

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August 1, 2022

Monday Movie: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), by Alexander Miller

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) originally ran as a home video review. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company...

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July 21, 2022

My Old School: Heard About the Whole Affair, by David Bax

If you only know one thing about Jono McLeod‘s My Old School, it’s probably the fact that Alan Cumming is involved. His face is front and center on every bit of promotional art, so much so that you may be...

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July 5, 2022

Fire of Love: Hot Springs Eternal, by David Bax

This might sound mean but that’s the opposite of how I intend it: In the most basic, traditional sense of the word, Miranda July is not “good” at voiceover narration. All I mean to say here is that she doesn’t...

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June 23, 2022

Beba: All the Heartaches I Conceal, by David Bax

If the type of person who’s only able to articulate the most superficial elements of both a film and their own reaction to it (in other words, a shockingly large amount of people who talk about movies) were to describe...

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June 16, 2022

Bitterbrush: Start Me Up, by David Bax

Colie and Hollyn, the subjects of Emelie Mahdavian‘s breathtaking new documentary Bitterbrush, are modern day cowboys. Yes, they’re women but even they refer to what they do for a living as “cowboying.” Calling them modern is more a fact than...

Tagged: documentary

TIFF 2022: De humani corporis fabrica, by David Bax

Riotsville, U.S.A.: Violence Through Strength, by David Bax

TIFF 2022: The Grab, by David Bax

Three Minutes: A Lengthening: Restoration, by David Bax

The Territory: The Old Land, by David Bax

Monday Movie: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It), by Alexander Miller

My Old School: Heard About the Whole Affair, by David Bax

Fire of Love: Hot Springs Eternal, by David Bax

Beba: All the Heartaches I Conceal, by David Bax

Bitterbrush: Start Me Up, by David Bax

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