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Welcome your child to a wonderful world of colour, texture, creativity and imagination.
Welcome your child to a wonderful world of colour, texture, creativity and imagination.
How to Save the World exposes globalization and its mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is: an environmental and human disaster.
Thomas Burstyn’s documentary looks at first like an indulgent examination of his own family’s intimacy issues. But soon it blossoms into an emotionally charged investigation into the universal themes of familial love, ambivalence and obligation. Burstyn, a child of second world war refugees, declares early on that his first interest is his estranged brother, but…
The title of the documentary SOME KIND OF LOVE refers to to the unlikely love that exists between the two siblings, Yolanda Sonnabend and her brother Joseph. Despite their constant complaining about each other, Joseph says on camera that he cannot leave her as she cannot live on her own. He takes care of her…
The term “cinematic sleight-of-hand” is something of a misnomer. All cinema is a fake; a collection of still images that pretends to move. But something in Thomas Burstyn’s very personal documentary seems to call out for the term. It’s not that the filmmaker is being willfully duplicitous; just that as Some Kind of Love progresses,…
A documentary by Thomas Burstyn. Ghosts haunt the canopy of any family tree, and here they are so vivid, everyone can still see them. In Some Kind of Love, you can feel Thomas Burstyn’s need to capture them before they’re gone for good. With producing and writing help from his wife, Barbara Sumner-Burstyn, the busy…
Here is a review of Some Kind of Love by Jim Gordon on CTV – Skip to 3:48
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