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Best Before: 5/21/13
Words & Curation: Dan Warry-Smith We’ve got heavily-hyped “comebacks” offering anticipatory intrigue. We’ve got rock bands getting dancey and dance bands rocking out. We’ve got psychedelic visions and power-pop powder-puffs. We’ve got frolic, fright, darkness,
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Filmmaker Meets Investment Banker After Work: Dreaming Out Loud in Toronto
Words: Broken Fridge I’m reading Robert McKee’s Story and the world will never be the same. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto #2 is in my head and my loins are stirring when I arrive at Earl’s on
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Oh No: Foxygen Gets Wrong
Words: Dan Warry-Smith Photos: Andrew Dubinsky “I don’t give a fuck.” The statement from Sam France, just a few songs into the Foxygen set Thursday night at Wrongbar, redundantly confirmed what those in the audience had
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The Trouble With ‘Trouble Will Find Me’
Words: Spartan On May 5th The National, in collaboration with artist Ragnar Kjartansson, put on a concert dubbed A Lot Of Sorrow wherein the band played one song – Sorrow – in a continuous
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Strange Truth: The Top Five Midnight Movies @ Hot Docs 2013
Words: Zach Gayne The Nightvisions program is easily my favorite part of Hot Docs. It’s the proud home of the festival’s freakiest films, all of which are selected for their cult qualities. On a practical
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Hot Docs 2013 – You’ve Got The Music In You
Words: Dan Warry-Smith Twenty years running and the primary Hot Docs conundrum remains troubling: To hunker down in darkened auditoriums for three, four, or even five screenings in the course of a single day, or
Words & Curation: Dan Warry-Smith We’ve got heavily-hyped “comebacks” offering anticipatory intrigue. We’ve got rock bands getting dancey and dance bands rocking out. We’ve got psychedelic visions and power-pop powder-puffs. We’ve got frolic, fright, darkness, [...]
Words: Zach Gayne The Nightvisions program is easily my favorite part of Hot Docs. It’s the proud home of the festival’s freakiest films, all of which are selected for their cult qualities. On a practical [...]
Words: Broken Fridge I’m reading Robert McKee’s Story and the world will never be the same. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto #2 is in my head and my loins are stirring when I arrive at Earl’s on [...]
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