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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Max Ritts

  • HotDocs: Soundtracker

    Soundtracker, a portrait of audio preservationist Gordon Hempton, is a well timed piece of work. For the past few decades, Hempton’s self-appointed quest...

  • Hot Docs: H2Oil

    It’s safe to say that the Alberta Oil Sands have achieved a singular level of regard in the national imagination. Images of them proliferate the...

  • Hot Docs: Those Who Remain

    Watching Those Who Remain, a doc about the Mexican families who lose loved ones to American immigration, I kept thinking about a Mike Davis book called...

  • Hot Docs: Invisible City

    The street-length rush line awaiting my arrival outside the Royal testified to the amount of buzz Hubert Davis’ “Invisible City” has been...

  • Hot Docs: A Back-breakingly Good Time

    I caught one of the NFB 70th Anniversary retrospectives Saturday afternoon that featured three short films from the NFB vault — “Streetrailway...