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Eric Hynes

Make It Real: The Cinema of Transition

By Eric Hynes
August 21, 2015
In transit: J.P. Sniadecki’s The Iron Ministry and the works of the Beijing Independent Film Festival reflect China's changing lives and landscapes

Make It Real: Hanging Out with Les Blank and Ricky Leacock

By Eric Hynes
August 12, 2015
Les Blank makes it look easy in his film about nonfiction pioneer Ricky Leacock, How to Smell a Rose, but theirs is a rare art

Interview: Hubert Sauper

By Eric Hynes
August 10, 2015
Laying bare the adventure of colonialism with the director of the Africa chronicles We Come as Friends and Darwin’s Nightmare

Make It Real: The Filmmaker as Adventurer

By Eric Hynes
August 5, 2015
Thrill ride: the vicarious kicks and pimped courage of the filmmaker as adventurer in Meru, Cartel Land, and We Come as Friends

Make It Real: Listen to Me Marlon

By Eric Hynes
July 30, 2015
Eric Hynes inaugurates his new column on nonfiction film with a look at the mother of all monologues

Short Takes: The Tribe

By Eric Hynes
April 24, 2015
(Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine, 2014)

Short Takes: The Hunting Ground

By Eric Hynes
February 25, 2015
(Kirby Dick, U.S., 2015)

Short Takes: A Most Violent Year

By Eric Hynes
December 30, 2014
(J.C. Chandor, U.S., 2014)

Festivals: Savannah

By Eric Hynes
December 18, 2014
Context clues: the 17th edition of the university-based Georgia fest brings in notable titles and guests but does it hold together?

Short Takes: The Theory of Everything

By Eric Hynes
October 30, 2014
(James Marsh, U.K., 2014)

Festivals: Maryland & Little Rock

By Eric Hynes
July 7, 2014
News from the front: in praise of two festivals that feature ambitious, vital programs

Short Takes: Life Itself

By Eric Hynes
July 6, 2014
(Steve James, U.S., 2014)

Short Takes: Love Is Strange

By Eric Hynes
June 30, 2014
(Ira Sachs, U.S., 2014)

Short Takes: The Immigrant

By Eric Hynes
May 7, 2014
(James Gray, U.S./France, 2013)

Short Takes: Cold in July

By Eric Hynes
April 29, 2014
(Jim Mickle, U.S., 2014)

Short Takes: Le Week-End

By Eric Hynes
March 4, 2014
(Roger Michell, U.K., 2013)

Short Takes: Child’s Pose

By Eric Hynes
December 30, 2013
(Calin Peter Netzer, Romania, 2013)

Short Takes: These Birds Walk

By Eric Hynes
November 4, 2013
(Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq, Pakistan/U.S., 2013)

Festivals: Camden International Film Festival

By Eric Hynes
October 16, 2013
Letter to Maine: the pleasures of a small-town fest with big dreams (and good films)

Festivals: RIDM

By Eric Hynes
December 6, 2012
A slate of unpredictable and lively docs marked this year’s vibrant edition of the Montreal festival