Bill Meyer
LATEST ARTICLES BY Bill Meyer
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Fascism and cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival
September 26, 2019Although the film is well directed and intentioned, I question the choice of focusing on a person who simply refuses to be in a war.
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Toronto International Film Festival unveils daring comedy satire ‘Jojo Rabbit’
September 25, 2019The extreme comedic approach is not for everyone, but at its best, the film subtly reveals how innocent youth are indoctrinated into extreme forms of intolerance and hatred.
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Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival: War, a murder mystery and banks
July 1, 2019Constantly in today's headlines and in our government's gunsight, is Islamic terrorism.
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Hot Docs from Latin America: The latest harvest of films
June 19, 2019North America's premiere Hot Docs Festival in Toronto featured several new and intriguing documentaries from Latin America.
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Chelsea Manning and Rohingya Muslims featured in new documentaries
May 29, 2019The film "XY Chelsea" is often tragic in tone, showing the pervasive surveillance ominously growing in the U.S.
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Toronto Hot Docs Film Festival shows films about the Palestinian struggle
May 13, 2019What makes this film one of the best on the subject, despite its grimness and despair, is its love and commitment for the people of Gaza, and its creative use of capturing some truly impassioned storytelling.
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Toronto’s Hot Docs film festival offers provocative fare
May 3, 2019Jam packed with over 200 enticing titles, the festival provides progressive filmgoers with lots of thought-provoking options.
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Two important films from Palestine at Toronto Festival
December 20, 2018One of the films takes a satirical approach while the other goes uncharacteristically beyond the traditional focus on the heroic acts of courage the world has come to know from people in this region.
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