Screening today at the Hart House theatre at 9:30 is a documentary that completely encapsulated my youth and filled me with awe, and a fire to create. Back in 1981, a film came along that changed many a young viewer, myself included, Steven Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. It affected a number of…
Tag: revue cinema
Hot Docs 2014: I Am Big Bird – The Carroll Spinney Story (Chad Walker & Dave LaMattina
There are times when everything comes to a perfect moment, when a film resonates with you, and echoes not only through the memories in the rooms of your mind, but also through the chambers of your heart. The last time it happened to me was Patrick Read Johnson’s 5-25-77, it happened again the other night,…
Lisa Wegner and Carl Elster
Sue and I headed to a west end Starbucks the other night, almost in my neck of the woods, to sit down and chat with artists and filmmakers Lisa Anita Wegner and Carl Elster. They’re getting ready for Nuit Blanche here in T.O. a huge night of free art that keeps the city awake until sunrise. Their…
The Mind Reels 