Don't confuse Being Different with those exploitational freak show documentaries of the 1950s. This is
a sensitive--but never sentimental--study of persons whose physical deformities and mental handicaps have not stood in the way of their positive self-images or personal success. ...
Despite his accomplishments as an actor, Donald Crisp's talents as a director were slight at
best. What makes Crisp's Dress Parade work are the engaging star performances of William Boyd and Bessie Love. Filmed on location at West Point, the ...
D.W. Griffith is arguably the single most important figure in the history of the American
cinema, a pioneering director from the silent era who established and refined the basic grammar of the film medium and changed moviemaking from the mechanical ...
Toronto's jazz-blues-rock roadhouse Healey's Hideaway was well-known for showcasing live music acts, including owner Jeff
Healey's own blues band. This affectionate documentary weaves concert footage and testimonials from Tony Springer, Michael White, Tom Guitard, Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman and others ...
This documentary, winner of three Canadian Gemini Awards, offers an in-depth portrait of the events
encompassed by the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 to 1981, when 52 Americans were held by fundamentalist Iranian students deeply disturbed by the course of ...
One screen legend tips his hat to another as James Cagney portrays horror film icon
Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces. Joseph Pevney's bio-pic takes a somewhat whitewashed view of Chaney's career, but Cagney is nothing short of ...
Documentarian Jennifer Baichwal's latest film, Manufactured Landscapes, represents a multifaceted effort. The picture ostensibly provides
a thought-provoking investigation of photographer Edward Burtynsky's legacy, with its aesthetic studies of industrial landscapes. But Baichwal's documentary probes deeper than a ...
Profiling Darius McCollum, a New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome who has been arrested more than
30 times for impersonating NYC mass-transit conductors. McCollum's obsession with trains and buses has caused him to spend 23 years in prison thus far. Adam ...
