Film festival in Powell River features movies with ‘challenging’ issues
By Vanessa Bjerreskov, Powell River Peak Discussion, lectures and presentations round out cinematic experience for festival-goers. Read full article at prpeak.com…...
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My adventures with assholes
09 January
in Essays
By John Walker, director, Assholes: A Theory If someone had told me I would be having a conversation about assholes with the governor general of New Zealand, Dame Patsy Reddy, and her husband, Sir David Gascoigne, or that I would be sitting beside comedic legend John...
Listen: New doc explores the ideas behind the bestselling book Assholes: A Theory
01 January
in Interviews
By Redeye Collective In his bestselling book Assholes: A Theory, philosopher Aaron James presents a provocative theory of the asshole to explain why such people exist, especially in an age of raging narcissism and unbridled capitalism. Assholes: A Theory is a new documentary by veteran filmmaker...
The Best Canadian Documentaries of 2019
By Marc Glassman, Point of View Magazine After too many years of assembling top ten lists, I’m feeling more comfortable with offering advice on films I enjoyed during the year without rating them in a numerical format. It’s tough enough to state that these are docs...
Assholes: A Theory
29 November
in News
By Carey, OrcaSound Social media. Men. Hollywood. World leaders. Ivy League frats. Tech and financial worlds. Assholes aplenty. They seem to be everywhere today. John Walker brings it to us on the big screen. Read full article at orcasound.com...
Review: Light Sociological Doc Runs Into Problems Defining Its Orifice
28 November
in Reviews
By Liam Lacey, Original CIN 'Assholes: A Theory,' the lightly sociological, somewhat silly, John Walker documentary is nominally about a social phenomenon – rudeness, norm-breaking and bad behavior. Most of us can read between the frames and see it’s really about the ghastly phenomenon of Donald...
A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FROM JOHN WALKER
A JOHN WALKER PRODUCTION IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA IN ASSOCIATION WITH DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL
CINEMATOGRAPHER PAUL MCCURDY EDITOR JEFF WARREN COMPOSER SANDY MOORE SOUND DESIGNER ALEX SALTER ANIMATOR RON MCDOUGALL LOCATION SOUND JIM RILLIE PRODUCERS ANN BERNIER ANNETTE CLARKE JOHN WALKER WRITTEN BY JOHN WALKER ROBERT SANDLER DIRECTED & NARRATED BY JOHN WALKER
A John Walker Production in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada in association with documentary Channel and Canada Media Fund, with the assistance of the Government of Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Film & Television Production Incentive Fund, Telefilm Canada and the Rogers Group of Funds, through the Theatrical Documentary Program, Rogers Telefund and The Canadian Film or Video Film Tax Credit and developed with the assistance of Superchannel
