The Euro documentary “Divia” has no dialogue simply music. Its astonishing cinematography is a work of art. It is a panorama of destruction of flora and fauna, man, his environment and his machines of death and destruction. Nature has been wounded but is far from defeat. If you have watched the documentaries “Russia at War”Continue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary: “Divia”: All Manner of Destruction: All Manner of Resilience”
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RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “A Fly on the Wall”: Caution You May be Swatted and Squished!
Assuming you were terminally ill and suffering. Would you fight and suffer until the end or turn to medically assisted in dying (MAID)? Sixty-year-old Chika Kapadia is in the last stages of an aggressive terminal cancer. He has requested his long-time friend and filmmaker Shonali Bose to film him in Geneva to the point heContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “A Fly on the Wall”: Caution You May be Swatted and Squished!”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “The Chef and the Daruma”: The Mind of a Great Chef of Original Japanese Cuisine
In this Canadian documentary we follow the life of Vancouver chef Hidekazu Tojo from his humble and poor beginning in Kagoshima, Japan to his rise to prominence as owner chef of one of Vancouver’s premier Japanese restaurants TOJO’s frequented by the monied classes of the world. A celebrity chef followed like a rock star byContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “The Chef and the Daruma”: The Mind of a Great Chef of Original Japanese Cuisine”
RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”: International Machinations Lead to National Disaster
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” focuses on the futile attempt to attain veritable independence of the Belgian colony of the Congo led by Patrice Lumumba. The Democratic Republic of Congo with Lumumba as its first prime minister negotiated its independence from Belgium on 30June1960. But was it truly independence? The assassination of Lumumba in earlyContinue reading “RKS 2025 Documentary Film: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat”: International Machinations Lead to National Disaster”
RKS 2024 Film: “Porcelain War”: Ukrainian Self Defence and Survival Through Art
“Porcelain War” is remarkably different from its Ukrainian relative “Honeymoon” I watched earlier this month at The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival”. “Honeymoon” was the story of two Ukrainian artists, newly married, trapped in their flat surrounded by the Russian army. It was a film of fear and desperation. “Porcelain War” is a story ofContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Porcelain War”: Ukrainian Self Defence and Survival Through Art”
RKS 2024 Film: “Russians at War”: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming!
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) issued a statement on 12September2024 the Canada-France film “Russians at War” directed by Anatasia Trofimova would be “paused” and there would be a screening “when it is safe to do so”. TIFF said it was aware “of significant threats to festival operations and public safety”. It would seem thereContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Russians at War”: The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming!”
RKS 2024 Film: More Canadian Indigenous Misery in “I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready”
Documentaries are rarely uplifting preferring an endless stream of negativity and when the topic is Canadian indigenous life the negativity is often escalated to misery. Another plate of angry misery fills the screen in Hayley Morin’s documentary about jaye simpson a poet, activist and drag queen. Abandoned as a child her single mother died inContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: More Canadian Indigenous Misery in “I’ll Tell You When I’m Ready””
RKS 2024 Film: “Inay” (Mama): The Mutual Pain of the Filipina Absent Mother
“Inay” is a Canadian documentary probing the pain of Filipina mothers leaving the Philippines to work as domestic workers in Canada primarily as child and elder minders. I knew several work colleagues that hired Filipina nannies to mind their children. Some of these nannies had left children and husbands behind and had not returned forContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Inay” (Mama): The Mutual Pain of the Filipina Absent Mother”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Contestant”: Can Anything Positive Emerge from Reality Television?
Inanity and reality television are bedfellows. The specialty of reality television is humiliating people for audience snickers. A prime example would be “90 Day Fiancée”. What is next “Romans Feeding Christians to the Lions: Live at the Coliseum!” It may well be that reality television was born with the Japanese television show “Denpa Shonen” specializingContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Contestant”: Can Anything Positive Emerge from Reality Television?”
RKS 2024 Film: “Tish”: Memories of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero”
Watching the documentary “Tish” about British photographer Tish Murtha the lyrics of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero” are most appropriate. “A working-class hero is something to be.” Although the late Tish Murtha now has a permanent exhibition of her photos at the Tate Museum in London she never reached the status of a working classContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Tish”: Memories of John Lennon’s “Working Class Hero””
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