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Hot Docs Launches Online Library
Hot Docs, the annual film festival that showcases some of the best documentaries from around the world, has just launched an online library featuring hundreds of Canadian docs. This includes recent popular docs like Let's All Hate Toronto, Last Call at the Gladstone Hotel and Daddy Tran: Life in 3D to name a few.
At first glance, the new site is impressive, offering users the ability to sort movies by most popular, by year, as well as special sections such as those devoted to CitySonic and interviews by Brian Linehan. If I had one wish, though, is that the videos could be embeddable so I could include some samples right here on this site.
According to Hot Docs, all films in the library are directed by filmmakers whose works have screened at Hot Docs, and many of the titles are works that have either shown at the festival or their excellent Doc Soup series.
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Any recommendations, blogto commenters?
@Cocoa Last Call at the Gladstone, already mentioned, is an amazing doc that showcases the queen west changes in the early 2000's, which is really impressive especially NOW that so much more has changed...
State of Mind is a chilling doc about North Korea and their yearly games, gorgeously choreographed but bringing up troubling questions. Oh wait...different doc, same name. Look up 'State of Mind' though anyway.
Super Amigos follows Mexican luchadores who all fight for rights, whether gay rights, environmental, animal rights, poverty, it seems funny but it's actually crazy inspiring (and flashy!)
The Take covers union strikes, the effects of globalization in Latin America and brings up, also, some troubling questions. Very good.
Dark One is a psychotropic film about a drug addict and his dysfunctional life/relationships with others, captured by a former drug addict filmmaker who really understands the way his subject seems the world and tries to visualize that for the audience, with some extremely strange imagery at times.
Stupidity, I saw it, but cant remember much of it. I don't remember it being BAD however...
craziness.