Retour [2017] Short Documentary On MUBI: A Chris Marker Styled Time Travel
Retour Review: If there is one filmmaker whose cinema best represents the cliched phrase: ‘Taking a trip down memory lane’,…
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![My Octopus Teacher [2020] Netflix Review: An Extraordinarily Beautiful Documentary](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/My-Octopus-Teacher-768x452.jpg)
My Octopus Teacher [2020] Netflix Review: An Extraordinarily Beautiful Documentary
After watching yet another documentary about the natural world close on the heels of David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (2020), I…
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Enemies of the State [2020]: ‘TIFF’ Review – Bizarre hacktivist documentary unravels that everything is political
Movies about hackers have often untwisted some obnoxious truths. The 2014 documentary Citizenfour saw Laura Poitras investigate the incredible story…
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The Thin Blue Line [1988] Review – A Thought-Provoking and Formally Innovative Documentary
“The Thin Blue Line was one of Errol Morris’ widely seen documentaries and also a commercial success.” Errol Morris is…
![The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On [1987] Review – An Uncannily Brilliant Documentary on War-Inflicted Trauma](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-Emperors-Naked-Army-Marches-On-1987-768x474.jpg)
The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On [1987] Review – An Uncannily Brilliant Documentary on War-Inflicted Trauma
Reactions on Kazuo Hara and the unflinching documentaries he makes can be widely divisive. Some may call him a genius,…
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Crip Camp [2020] Netflix Review – An Uplifting Documentary on Disability Rights Movement
Winner of the U.S. Documentary Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival and executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher…
![Nanook of the North [1922] Review – A Quasi-Documentary Classic on the Ever-Smiling Eskimo](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Nanook-of-the-North-1922-768x562.jpg)
Nanook of the North [1922] Review – A Quasi-Documentary Classic on the Ever-Smiling Eskimo
The complicated legacy of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (1915) is very well known to any cinephile: it showcased…
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Ram Ke Naam [1992] Documentary Review – A Cop-out take on 1992 Riot
Ram Ke Naam/ In The Name of Ram There are three ways to approach a documentary according to me:- as…
![The Cordillera of Dreams [2019]: ‘KVIFF’ Review – A Piercingly Elegiac Documentary on Landscape and Memory](https://www.highonfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/The-Cordillera-of-Dreams-Doc-768x401.jpg)
The Cordillera of Dreams [2019]: ‘KVIFF’ Review – A Piercingly Elegiac Documentary on Landscape and Memory
“The Cordillera of Dreams (‘La Cordillera de los suenos’, 2019) once again explores the majesty of Chile’s landscapes set against…