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21 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Count me in for about covering about half the doc offerings at Tiff this year. Kudos to Thom Powers for putting together a stellar line-up of offerings from some top names in the documentary filmmaking world and for subject matters that certainly make this cat curious. Seventeen doc films (nine world preems) have been added to the festival, but still no mention of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, while The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (directed by Emmett Malloy - an habitual for band docs) is confirmed as a Vanguard Section selection. Worth checking out is Aj Schnack's post announcement interview Powers who explains how some titles with unfamiliar names got into the fest. Here is the list of docs worth seeking out in T.O. The Art of the Steal Don Argott, USA World Premiere This art-world whodunit investigates what happened to the »

14 March 2009 9:42 AM, PDT | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »

Severe Clear is the Iraq documentary I've been awaiting conscientiously if not eagerly. There certainly hasn't been a shortage of retrospective examinations from a position of authority - e.g. the macrocosmic No End In Sight and the microfocused Standard Operating Procedure - or, in lesser quantities, on-the-ground reportage. The best-known of those is probably 2004's Gunner Palace, which could be politely described - in internet slang - as Epic Fail. Well-intentioned though they were in spending time with soldiers both at rest and patrolling, Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein screwed up by including little you couldn't have seen on the news - gore and atrocities discreetly off-screen - and also in basic competence, like providing audible sound. Working from the footage of Marine Mike Scotti, Kristian Fraga</strong »

- Vadim Rizov

2 articles from 2009