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June 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
This Is Not A Movie: Film
This Is Not A Movie Director: Yung Chang National Film Board of Canada (NFB) / Documentary Edge Festival Subtitled Robert Fisk and The Politics of Truth – This Is Not A Movie is both portrait of Fisk and his working methods and a reminder of how journalism has changed, perhaps how far it’s fallen; certainly […]Archive
June 17, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band: Film
Saul & Ruby’s Holocaust Survivor Band Director: Tod Lending Nomadic Pictures / Documentary Edge Festival Did you follow through with that lifelong artistic dream during the recent paid 8-week vacation of Lockdown? Did you pick up the drum-sticks for the first time, or first time in years? Did you write that novel, or paint a […]Archive
June 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
#UNFIT – The Psychology of Donald Trump: Film
#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump Director: Dan Partland Spectrum / Documentary Edge Festival The current sitting president of America – their 45th – is a horrible, uncaring, negative, double-speaking piece of shit. Or, in psychology-speak, a malignant narcissist. Yep, there’s a term for his brand of bullying and gaslighting – mixed with fear, arrogance, […]Archive
May 8, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Mermaids: Film
Mermaids Director: Ali Weinstein Naiad Procutions/Sphinx Productions/Films We Like Mermaids – a subculture, a fetish – this film looks at the talent required (synchronised swimming) and attention to detail with costuming. It looks too at the people behind the mermaid-fascination. Just as you think it’s all getting a bit, er, watery – we find the […]Archive
May 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Pulitzer at 100: Film
The Pulitzer at 100 Director: Kirk Simon Marblemen Productions/Simon + Film Released last year to coincide with the anniversary, The Pulitzer at 100, is an independent look at the prestigious prize – in all its variations – and though you could claim it (almost) as some sort of hagiography, gushing over its subject and its […]Archive
May 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
This Is Everything – Gigi Gorgeous: Film
This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous Director: Barbara Kopple SelectNext Gregory Lazzarato was any young Canadian boy – a gifted diver on track for Olympic Games consideration. He also loved make-up and growing up in the age of YouTube found himself as a beauty and fashion vlogger with a growing fanbase connected to a YouTube channel. […]Archive
May 18, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Maya Angelou And Still I Rise: Film
Maya Angelou And Still I Rise Directors: Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack An American Masters presentation/Poet’s Poet Media Group/WNET/ITVS Poet, essayist, memoirist, dancer, singer, storyteller, campaigner, protester, advocate, actor, the great Maya Angelou was an inspiration to many – and towering presence in African-American literature and culture. As a political totem for race and […]Archive
May 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Hello I Am David!: Film
Hello I Am David! Director: Cosima Lange Basis berlin Filmproduktion/Beleza Film For so many people, the introduction to David Helfgott was the movie Shine – in retrospect, if not at that time, that film seems to be more about Geoffrey Rush’s performance than the actual story of Helfgott, Australian pianist who rebuilt his career after […]Archive
May 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Norman Lear – Just Another Version of You: Film
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You Directors: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Loki Films/Thirteen/WNET He’s 93 and sharp as anything – and what a life of impact – Norman Lear is one of the greatest minds to have ever worked in television. A showrunner for so many big-deal TV shows in America in the […]Archive
May 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Sound of Her Guitar: Film
The Sound of Her Guitar Director: Bill Morris Wild Islands Media I’ve enjoyed some of Donna Dean’s music but I really enjoyed this version of her life story, a documentary about her travel through America, her early life in New Zealand, the redemptive power of the country music she sought out as both means to […]Archive
May 2, 2016 by Simon Sweetman