Hot Docs 2013: Alcan Highway (2013)

Hese is a man with a mission and Alcan Highway is a document of that mission. After purchasing an antique rusty bucket truck in Alasks, he leaves his home in Finland, recruits some buds, and intends to make this contraption ...

TCM Classic Film Festival 2013: The Twelve Chairs (1970)

You know you're in the right place when Robert Osborne strides out - so I am overjoyed when he personally introduces Mel Brooks.  And Brooks, at 87, still has it.  After the TCM representative reminds the audience that one of the sponsors is Porsche,...

Hot Docs 2013: Northern Light (2013)

Northern Light is a cinema verite documentary set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s a slow paced, but powerful look into the lives of three snowmobile racers and their families. Snowmobile racing is the glue holding this l...

TCM Film Festival 2013: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Writer/director Robert Benton spoke before the Festival's screening of Bonnie & Clyde in the big, bad Grauman's Chinese Theatre (I refuse to call it the TCL Chinese Theatre) and he really painted a surprising picture of ...

TCM Classic Film Festival 2013: The Swimmer (1968)

The Swimmer as aptly introduced by indie filmmaker Alison Anders, is a perfect movie for our times, just as Mad Men is a series about the past, but prescient as part of our current collective consciousness.  In fact, it's An...

TCM Classic Film Fest 2013: From Russia with Love (1963)

Screened from a newly resorted and digital print, the images were sharp, with deeply saturated colors and tones. The sound, crisp and bright. And Sean Connery, as always, the strongest of Bonds.  However, sometimes you can have too much of a good thi...

Hot Docs 2013: Buying Sex (2013)

The premise is simple. Progressives argue that prostitutes would be safer if the prostitution is decriminalized in Canada. Recently, the Ontario Superior Court struck down the existing laws. Of course, the fallout of such things is not nearly as simp...