Like the buried gold and the lost films, “Dawson City: Frozen Time” is a treasure waiting to be discovered.

| Oct 14, 2022

What filmmaker Bill Morrison manages to do with the footage is simply magical. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2020

Without voice over, you see footage from these once-lost-films not as documentary materials, but as films, the way people in the turn of century saw them. They're beautiful and alive.

| Aug 4, 2020

A mesmerizing, hugely entertaining new film...

| Jul 17, 2020

A heart-felt love letter that confirms how even time cannot stop the transformative power of an art form still very much in its infancy.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 6, 2020

In carefully molding these relics, Morrison is less a traditional filmmaker than he is a sculptor... The slow-moving, warped, scratched images seem emulsified in scotoma.

| Feb 6, 2020

Dawson City: Frozen Time's most intense quality is its richness, both visually and historically.

| Aug 1, 2019

A story of fire and ice; silver and gold

| Jul 27, 2019

If cinema is the place where dreams meet reality, then Dawson City: Frozen Time is a cinematic reverie that takes us on a mesmerizing and deeply moving journey through history

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 4, 2019

A stunning work of curation from documentary filmmaker Morrison, a story of fortune, folly, film and fire preserved in permafrost.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2019

A captivating portrait of a place which once found itself at the centre of history.

| Feb 18, 2019

So much more than just a lesson in Dawson City's own history, and extending further still than the bounds of film history, Morrison's approach to archive film offers us an experience of the past that is unwaveringly contemporary.

| Jan 24, 2019

[Morrison's] tribute to Dawson City and the resting places of these memories is done, and it's done well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2018

An important work that demands a place in film school syllabuses the world over. And if I had seen it in that context I probably would have given it a higher score.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 10, 2018

Dawson City: Frozen Time may sound like a time capsule on paper, but it's something altogether more profound in motion.

| Aug 21, 2018

The film is transfixing, an utterly singular compound of the bizarre, the richly informative, the thrilling, the horrifying, the goofy, the tragic, and the flat-out gorgeous.

| Jul 26, 2018

Morrison's work of passion, almost fully of archival footage, is interesting but exhausting as a work of preservation.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 24, 2018

An epic presentation of history, film history, and film as history all in one ... if you care about film at all, you have to see this miraculous documentary.

| Feb 9, 2018

... celebrates the power of cinema as a time capsule and features clips of numerous films recovered in Dawson to help tell the story of the city and to illustrate the wonders of the world that cinema brought to the citizens in the 1910s and 1920s ...

| Jan 5, 2018

...an act of resurrection and transformation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 20, 2017