Articles by James Brotheridge

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  Hot Docs Review: 'The Painter and the Thief' Turns Crime into Art

  Directed by Benjamin Ree

  PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2020

  Plenty of entertaining documentaries are built from being in the right place at the right time. The Painter and the Thief — a doc filled wi...

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  Hot Docs Review: 'Mayor' Highlights the Day-to-Day Practicalities of Palestinian Political Life

  Directed by David Osit

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2020

  Few documentaries come across discussion of a Christmas tree that's politically fraught. In Mayor, director David Osit's sophomore feature,...

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  'The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open' Explores Shared Connections and Conflicts

  Directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn

  PUBLISHED Mar 23, 2020

  A specific significance of this film's title, The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, might be lost on me. To pick out the pair of wo...

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  CUFF Review: 'Our Time Machine' Explores Art and Remembrance via Chinese Theatre

  Directed by S. Leo Chiang and Yang Sun

  PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2019

  What makes a work worth remembering? Worth not only being experienced by audiences in its own time and place, but to be talked about after?...

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  CUFF Review: 'Los Reyes' Tells a True-Life Shaggy Dog Tale That'll Warm Hearts

  Directed by Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff

  PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2019

  In looking at Los Reyes, a story of a couple of strays, it's tough not to think about the lived conditions of capitalism. People keep movin...

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  'Varda by Agnès' Is a Fascinating Final Statement From a Film Legend

  Directed by Agnès Varda

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2019

  A crowd filters into a room, captured in time lapse, while a director's chair with the name "Agnès" on the back sits empty onstage. Agnès V...

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  CUFF Review: 'Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street' Is an Overdue Look at Homophobia in Horror

  Directed by Tyler Jensen and Roman Chimienti

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2019

  A New Nightmare was director Wes Craven's big swing at revitalizing the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. In the seventh film of the serie...

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  CUFF Review: 'Where in the Hell Is the Lavender House: The Longmont Potion Castle Story' Gets in the Way of its Prank Call Chronicle

  Directed by David Hall and Thomas Rotenberg

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2019

  In one of many fan interviews peppered throughout Where in the Hell Is the Lavender House: The Longmont Potion Castle Story, it's observed...