Category Archives: Documentary

Framing Agnes review — Engaging, flawed doc on trans culture

April 16, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Chase Joynt | Written by Joynt and Morgan M. Page | 75 min | ▲▲▲△△ | Crave This documentary from the No Ordinary Man filmmaker aims to explore the history of transsexual culture in the United States. The film offers reenactments of trans actors playing characters/people (based on the historical archive from UCLA)…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Copa 71

March 29, 2024 flawintheiris

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, where our mandate is to show independent Canadian, international, and documentary films. I'm part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. Directed by James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay | Written by Erskine, Ramsay, and Victoria Gregory | 90 min | Carbon Arc…Read More

Someone Lives Here review — An essential document of our times

March 27, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Zack Russell | 75 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | on Crave A documentary portrait of Khaleel Seivwright, a Toronto carpenter who responded to the homeless crisis in his city and built dozens of tiny homes, sheds really, where people could find privacy, safety, and a bit of warmth. His efforts earns him support from…Read More

William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill review — Vanity Trek

March 20, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe | 96 min | ▲△△△△ WIlliam Shatner is a famous Canadian actor who has lived an impressively long life — he's just about to turn 93 — and has managed to sustain a career in show business much longer than his initial fame as Captain Kirk in Star Trek might've…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Four Daughters

February 17, 2024 flawintheiris

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. This documentary was our season opener, but the winter storm forced us to cancel screenings. The positive audience response to the ones we were able to show prompted us to bring it back for…Read More

To Kill A Tiger review — A fierce fight for justice

January 30, 2024 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Nisha Pahuja | 125 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | National Film Board of Canada To Kill A Tiger is a surprise Academy Award-nominee for Best Documentary from Toronto-based filmmaker Nisha Pahuja, with Mindy Kaling and Dev Patel on board as Executive Producers. The film takes us to a village in Jharkhand, India,…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Once You Know

November 30, 2023 flawintheiris

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. This weekend we're screening a 4K restoration of Guy Maddin's 1990 film, Archangel, and a documentary from 2020, largely in French, called Once You Know. Directed by Emmanuel Cappellin | 104 min | Carbon Arc…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: The Mission

November 16, 2023 flawintheiris

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. Written and Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss | 103 min | Carbon Arc Cinema Not to be confused with the Roland Roffé epic from 1986, this is a documentary centred on the…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: Joan Baez I Am A Noise

November 9, 2023 flawintheiris

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. Directed by Miri Navasky, Maeve O'Boyle, and Karen O'Connor | 113 min | Carbon Arc Cinema That this documentary has three directors could be a reflection of both it's scale — a comprehensive look…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: The Eternal Memory

November 2, 2023 flawintheiris

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. Written and Directed by Maite Alberdi | 84 minutes | Carbon Arc Cinema Augusto Góngora is a journalist who covered Chilean politics and culture as an on-camera reporter and anchor, including the long stretch…Read More