Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  Dance Me Outside

  Bruce McDonald

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2008

  This 1995 Bruce McDonald film doesn’t have the bite of his much loved road trilogy — while they have the same implicit moralising and confu...

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  Fugitive Pieces

  Jeremy Podeswa

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2008

  First you’re guilty, then you’re not. That seems to be the emotional trajectory for the fugitive from the Nazis who headlines Fugitive Piec...

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  The Forgotten Woman

  Dilip Mehta

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2008

  Everyone who saw Deepa Mehta’s Water was given a crash course in the concept of "the widows’ house,” where the wives of deceased Hindu men...

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  Garbage Warrior

  Oliver Hodge

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2008

  Much has been made of the sloppy nature of this documentary, which takes the heroism of its subject as read and doesn’t ask questions about...

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  Gone with the Woman

  Petter Naess

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2008

  The woods are full of passive men who somehow can’t imagine how they got into that no-win romance with a domineering woman. But the total l...

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  Charlie Wilson's War

  Mike Nichols

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2008

  Much na-na-na-boo-boo was provoked by the revelation that non-starter Congressman Charlie Wilson was responsible for arming the Afghani Muj...

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  A Passage to India

  David Lean

  PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2008

  It figures that a stodgy director cast out of the industry at the dawn of the funky ’70s would rise from the ashes in the middle of the con...

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  Emotional Arithmetic

  Paolo Barzman

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2008

  It’s a terrible thing to say but surviving the Holocaust creates a scenario ready-made for stolid Canadian filmmakers. All that guilt and s...