Reviewed by Byron Potau.  Viewed on DVD. After several false starts, Robert Flaherty, a virtual amateur, honed his documentary skills and gave us one of the crowning achievements of the genre with Nanook of the North.  It is a brutal education on surviving in the north that is sometimes hard to watch.  Though you may … Continue reading Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922): USA / France