“99 Homes” : shelter skelter
Writer Director Ramin Bahrani has effectively recast hell as the foreclosure real estate market.
What really happened to the 43 students in Mexico?
The disappearance of 43 students in Iguala last year on September 26 remains an open, festering wound in Mexico.
The world as seen in films from Toronto
The small country of Bangladesh, the poorest nation in Asia, is the location for a couple of interesting films shown at TIFF.
Latin America at the Toronto International Film Festival
This film festival is not lacking in films from Latin America, including gems from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico.
Illusion and immersion: Humanity's grand struggle in new documentaries
Films can alter, transform and manipulate truth, just in the editing process alone: directors make decisions on what to add, but what's left out is still part of the truth.
Narratives from the 2015 Toronto Film Festival
As mentioned in a previous column, documentaries are not always more truthful that fiction films.
New film promotes public workers’ fight for rights
Alantris Muhammad and millions of other workers like her face a big problem: The U.S. Supreme Court.
Michael Moore’s latest: “Where to Invade Next”
It's been six long years since the humorist provocateur Michael Moore has made a film.
Globalization and privatization: “Our Brand is Crisis”
Although it uses the Bolivian election and the GCS involvement as the basis for the story, it makes some plot alterations.
War and anti-war films at Zürich Film Festival
NGO workers entangled behind the lines of a combat zone during the final days of former Yugoslavia's warfare; Danes embroiled in Afghanistan.
