At the beginning of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s latest documentary, subject Cecil Beaton is described as a fashion designer, photographer, an author, and a dandy. How can one man be all those things, defining every facet of popular culture from publishing…
VIFF Review: Faces Places
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. Faces Places (or in French: Visages Villages) comes equipped with so much detailed history and deeply embedded feeling between its characters that the winsomeness and tragedy almost writes itself. Equally the result of…
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Movie Review
Poor Al Gore. He’s like a sad superhero who keeps trying to spread his wisdom to the world but is shoved to the side like an old man who yells at clouds. Ten years after his controversial documentary, An Inconvenient…
‘Island of Lemurs: Madagascar’ More Than Just Cuteness
Did you know that once upon a time lemurs co-existed with dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago? Well they did, they survived the catastrophic meteor strike that wiped out the dinosaurs. That makes them the most ancient primates that…
Raw Herring at the Tribeca Film Festival
A documentary from the Netherlands outlines the journey of fishermen as they continue to fish and live life in a long lost profession. The Hollandse Niewe, or commonly referred to as the Dutch New Herring, is a type of…