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POV MagazineCanadaFestober Cometh: Doc Highlights on the Circuit Between the massive success of You Can See Everything , the swell of support for Run Terry Run , the sell-outs for NAZA , and the chatter for Musk , there are lots of doc options at the theatres…

10.20

POV MagazineCanadaCould You Can See Everything Make Oscar History for Documentary? The 98 th Academy Awards could be an historic year for documentaries. On the heels of this weekend’s smashing success for You Can See Everything , which raked in a whopping $15 million USD at the…

10.19

POV MagazineCanadaGeopolitics and Ecology Heat Up the North It may seem like a simple story, but no story is ever simple. Stories are like mazes. They lead us where we least expect.

10.19

POV MagazineCanadaNow Streaming: There Are No Words Mines a Family’s Painful History “I feel deeply exposed, and in some ways, I feel a little bit ashamed,” filmmaker Min Sook Lee tells POV .

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POV MagazineCanadaYou Can See Everything Review: Or, the Characters We Create for Ourselves You Can See Everything (USA, 174 min.) Dir. Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim Prod. Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, Tatiana Bears, Maggie Ambrose, Jack Davis It’s always tricky when one’s ability to…

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POV MagazineCanadaAlex Gibney on Musk and Playing in Elon’s Sandbox “We’re in a shitload of trouble,” observes Musk director Alex Gibney. The Oscar winner’s epic documentary delivers a comprehensive distillation of everything evil and troublesome about its subject.

10.15

POV MagazineCanadaWatch the Trailer for Sundance Winner Nuisance Bear A wily polar bear offers one of the year’s most enigmatic and intriguing characters in Nuisance Bear.

10.14

POV MagazineCanadaRun Terry Run Sets Box Office Record for Canadian Documentary Audiences aren’t walking to Run Terry Run . They’re running. The documentary directed by Sean Menard set a 10-year high for English-language Canadian documentary at the national box office.

10.13

POV MagazineCanadaJessica Earnshaw’s Family Viewing “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you,” wrote Maya Angelou in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings .

10.13

POV MagazineCanadaCeremony Wins Best Canadian Documentary at VIFF Ceremony leads the winners from this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. The film directed by Banchi Hanuse won the Tides Award for Best Canadian Documentary.

10.08

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo