One of the most infamous grifters in Toronto tries to tell his side of the story in The Talented Mr. Rosenberg. Nicknamed “The Yorkville Swindler” by the media, Albert Rosenberg has been a con artist for decades, being charged for crimes that spread from Monte Carlo to New York and Austria to Toronto. Now in…
Tribute is paid to one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time in Oscar Peterson: Black+White. Born in Montreal in 1925, Oscar Peterson first rose to prominence in the 1940s and would soon be simply described as the best jazz pianist in the world, with his ability to play at incredibly high tempos. Highlights…
Hot Docs at Home is a Selection of Films from the Postponed 2020 Edition of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival That Will Air Thursdays in April and May on CBC, Documentary Channel, and CBC Gem One of the biggest art forgery cases in US history is broken down in Made You Look: A True…
The life and career of the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor is told in Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz. Born in Romania, Ben Ferencz’s fled from Europe with his family in the 1920s and grew up New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. Dedicated to a life of doing good, Ferencz studied to become a lawyer and fought in…
Being both a film fan and a documentary fan, I love it when there are documentaries about films. Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project just opened today for a run at the Bell Lightbox and it’s a, Canadian-produced, documentary about the infamous Hollywood figure Harvey Weinstein. As the title suggests, the film wasn’t made with Weinstein’s full…
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