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By Gregory Crofton Celia Maysles wanted to get to know her Dad. She opened the door of his beige Mercedes and sat behind the wheel. “I like this car,” she said with a smile. Later on the subway she wears…
By Kate Myers “Gods of Mexico” is a mesmerizing look at modern life lived primitively. The pace of the movie captures the stretched out time it takes to do hard work with basic tools. Far from being boring, the pace…
By Gregory Crofton A packed house at the Belcourt Theatre in Nashville lit up “Luther: Never Too Much” bringing emotion and joy to a screening on a recent Sunday evening of the new documentary directed by Dawn Porter. Audience members…
By Gregory Crofton Profit shouldn’t be priority when caring for older people, but that’s a reality and it’s producing “systemic negligence” throughout the nursing home industry. Running a long-term care facility, or nursing home, as a for-profit corporate-owned business can…
By Gregory Crofton Jon Day, best known for his music video work, spent five years making a documentary on Die Antwoord, the viciously good South African cheetahs of art rap. Roger Ballen, a photographer whose had a massive influence rap…
This feature-length docudrama brings us back to 1950 in a smalltown Ontario bank, the scene of an armed hold-up by Herbert McAuliffe. By nightfall, two men are dead. The robber flees, and for three days the community of Norfolk County…