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May 2009

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• 05.11.09
  Hot Docs 2009: Waterlife Review Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  About: Jay loves the films of Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and The Maysles, and is currently in production on his own first feature-length documentary Beauty Day.
  
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  Directed by Kevin McMahon Canada, 2009 Official Hot Docs Synopsis: This stunning ode to the last great supply of fresh water on earth, the Great Lakes, immerses us in their extraordinary beauty, ecological complexity, and extreme state of distress. Under assault on all fronts by a deadly combination of industrial toxins, sewage, invasive species, climate change, and profound apathy, they are on the verge of irreversible collapse. Director Kevin McMahon (recipient of the 2007 Hot Docs Focus On retrospective) navigates with fluid clarity through industrial intervention and natural splendor, from northern Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, using breathtaking cinematography and CGI to ...
• 05.08.09
  A 13 Minute Sneak Peak at Christopher Hitchens Doc ‘Collision’ Jay CcloseAuthor: Jay C Name: Jay C
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  About: Jay loves the films of Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and The Maysles, and is currently in production on his own first feature-length documentary Beauty Day.
  
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  Months ago I was spending my long, boring days at work trying to kill time on the internet as my bank account slowly grew in size. Yes, the good news is even when there's no work to be done, you still get paid. I spent a fair amount of time looking at conspiracy theory vids and various YouTube posts of people performing the Mama's Family theme song on the drums. One of my favourite time killer's was the numerous Christopher Hitchens debates available in full around the inter-web. I know a lot of people think this guy is a total ...
• 05.07.09
  Eric Bana’s Car Documentary: Love The Beast Trailer SeancloseAuthor: Sean Name:
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  About: Webmaster and editor of Film Junk, video game programmer by trade. Sean is obsessively blogging when he’s not blogging about obsessively blogging. He is also a big fan of reality in general.
  
  Twitter: @filmjunkSee Authors Posts (128) | News, Trailers | (6)

  With Eric Bana taking over the multiplexes tonight as the villain in J.J. Abrams's Star Trek, I thought it would be a good time to mention the other project he's been promoting lately, a personal documentary that he directed called Love The Beast. It turns out that the man loves cars (no, not in that way), and he grew up wanting to be a race car driver. Now that he's a famous actor, he could buy all kinds of expensive sports cars, but instead he's been fixated on the same 1974 XB Falcon Coupe that he's had since he was ...
• 05.07.09
  Planet B-Boy Tapped for Fictional Feature Film Adaptation SeancloseAuthor: Sean Name:
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  About: Webmaster and editor of Film Junk, video game programmer by trade. Sean is obsessively blogging when he’s not blogging about obsessively blogging. He is also a big fan of reality in general.
  
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  When a documentary is successful, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has broken through to the mainstream. There are only a handful of documentaries have ever received wide theatrical releases, and while many docs do find a large audience after being released on DVD or aired on TV, there are still so many people that a documentary may never reach. For this reason, Hollywood studios are becoming more and more interested in taking popular documentaries and turning them into fictionalized feature films that can be marketed to the masses. Some recent examples include Lords of Dogtown (based on Dogtown and Z-Boys) ...
• 05.06.09
  Ray Kurzweil Documentary Transcendent Man Trailer SeancloseAuthor: Sean Name:
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  About: Webmaster and editor of Film Junk, video game programmer by trade. Sean is obsessively blogging when he’s not blogging about obsessively blogging. He is also a big fan of reality in general.
  
  Twitter: @filmjunkSee Authors Posts (128) | News, Trailers | (10)

  When it comes to the most brilliant minds in the scientific world, there's a very fine line between being a genius and being a crazy person. Ray Kurzweil is a guy who has been walking that line for years, continuing to attract followers and critics on both sides while he preaches about what he feels are inevitable breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and technological evolution. When I read his book The Age of Spiritual Machines, I found it so appealing to buy into his amazing predictions, but the fact remains that most of them are still unproven. What's more, with all ...
• 05.06.09
  Man on Wire Director Preps New Film: Dream Diaries SeancloseAuthor: Sean Name:
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  About: Webmaster and editor of Film Junk, video game programmer by trade. Sean is obsessively blogging when he’s not blogging about obsessively blogging. He is also a big fan of reality in general.
  
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  After winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature with Man on Wire earlier this year, director James Marsh is continuing to push his career forward with both fiction and non-fiction films. His next documentary, currently underway with UK production company Wall to Wall, will tackle the subject of dreams. Dream Diaries focuses on a Canadian man who wrote down all of his dreams over the course of his life: "The project has its origin in a collection of dream diaries that are held in a university in Santa Cruz. I was recommended the diaries of an old man who had ...

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