What to see this weekend: solving a murder in Yosemite – or explore the peaceful national parks of Canada with these documents
Unfilled, Netflix
Eric Bana plays a National Park Service Investigative Services Branch Special Agent in Untamed.Netflix
This six-part mysteried drama starts with a particularly horrifying corpse-Reveal Cold Open, set on the El Capitan vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park. It is up to Eric Bana and plays a tacit National Park Service Investigative Services Branch Special Agent – that is a new one – to drive around on his horse and to resolve the crime; Of course he has been saddled with deep trauma and a young green sidekick (Lily Santiago), recently moved from the big city, which has to do with his surly attitude but learns a wilderness trick along the way.
UntamedThe tone can sometimes be almost comically dark for the beautiful surroundings hard-cooked Park Rangers? – and clichés of contemporary detective genre canal without subversion. But made by Mark L. Smith (The revenant) and Elle Smith, the show makes exciting use of the setting-er a few excellent action sets and the emotional movements are strong in the versions of both Bana and Rosemarie Dewitt, as the ex-wife of his character.
The National Parks of Canada, TVO
A documentary series with five paragraphs, entitled Canada’s National Parks in Out on TVO.TVO/delivered
In 2022, none other than Barack Obama told a five-part Netflix Wildlife documentary series about some of the national parks called the world Our large national parks. Released with Less Fanfare Last summer, TVOs was more humble entitled Five-market documentary series, The National Parks of Canada.
When you’re done Untamed With the wrong conviction that working in a national park is all about solving grotesque murders and tracing criminal operations that hide in the forest, this is a good taste buds. The first episode about Pacific Rim National Park Reserve in British Columbia introduces real Parks Canada heroes such as Todd Windle, who collects Scat and photos of remote cameras as par of his mission to protect a rebuilding coastal wolf colony; And ecologists Yuri Zharikov and Mike Wall, on their way to examine the Black Oystercatcher population.
Other parks in the series – which you will find on TVO app today or streaming tvo.org And Youtube-to be Waterton Lakes, IVVAVIK, Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park and Cape Breton Highlands – who, as a reminder, are all free to visit until 2 September.
National Parks Project, Tubi
Rapper Shad, on the right, plays with the Besnard Lakes in the National Parks Project.Delivered
Canada was the first country in the world to set up a National Park Service – which is now known as Parks Canada. In the run-up to his centenary in 2011, teams of filmmakers and Indie musicians were sent to 13 of the national parks of the country one in every province and territory-to make this series of musical films that jointly yield a broken social scene from Canadian nature documentaries, or perhaps a kind of Canuck Koyaanisqatsi.
Kathleen Edwards, Matt Mays and Sam Roberts traveled with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis to Wapusk National Park in Northern Manitoba in one section, while Andrew Whiteman, Dean Stone and Tanya Tagaq went to Sirmilak in Nunavut went for another segmentut (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner).
The “beautifully shot and consistent hypnotic” film, as the Globe and Mail’s Guy Dixon wrote in a review about the original release, is also great to put in the background on a barbecue in the background if you are stuck in the city; You can find it both in episodes and streaming and a longer doc at the free-with-ads service tubi.
My mother Jayne, craves
In my mother Jayne, Mariska Hargitay investigates her famous mother Jayne Mansfield, who died when her daughter was three.Crazy/delivered
Actress Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident when her daughter, Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU), was only three years old; Hargitay actually survived in the back seat and was found by rescuers, well after two of her brothers and sisters, under the passenger seat.
In this stunning HBO documentary, Hargitay investigates who her famous mother really was, have no memories of her and have spent a large part of her life somewhat ashamed of her persona as a Hollywood’s ‘smartest stupid blond’, and recovers her family history from tabloid verges. Mansfield is demonstrated as a victim of the specific sexism of her time, but the own tendencies of the sex symbol of the sixties to self -explanation are not ignored; The doc ends a rich portrait of a complex person, full of interviews with intimates that would have been impossible to land if Hargitay had not been involved.
Eventually the DOC takes an unexpected turn – at least if you have avoided the press reporting. Once fascinating, these stories that we tell about family.
I’m still there, craving
I am still here the true story of a Brazilian activist, played by Fernanda Torres, anyway.Alile Onawale/The Associated Press
On July 18, this Brazilian film from 2024, the most recent winner of the Best International Fily Film Academy Award, was added to Crave’s Rich Library of Films (together with A real painThat Kieran Culkin won a best supporting actor Oscar). Directed by Walter Salles, it tells the true story of the Brazilian activist Eunice Paiva (Oscar nominated Fernanda Torres) who flies back against the military dictatorship of Brazil after her husband “disappeared” in 1971.
In the PickroRecension of a critic for the Globe and Mail, reviewer Anne T. Donahue called the film ‘A devastating she told the modest about the need for perseverance and hope. … The image of sorrow and fear next to the small, beautiful moments in daily life is heartbreaking in his realism ‘.
