Tag: Documentary
What’s Up Doc?: Les Blank, Alex Gibney & Alex Winter Lead SXSW Charge (February 2015)
Now that the busy winter fest schedule of Sundance, Rotterdam and the Berlinale has concluded, we've now got our eyes on the likes of...
12 O’Clock Boys | DVD Review
First time director Lotfy Nathan spent the years prior to his lengthy festival circuit tour (the kick star began at SXSW) documenting war in...
Interview: Petra Costa (Elena)
For director Petra Costa, filmmaking is more than just an artistic expression, but an opportunity for intensely personal emotional dissection. With her most recent...
Tough as Nails: Malala Yousafzai Becomes Subject of Davis Guggenheim Docu
Variety reports that Jeffrey Skoll's Participant Media is teaming with Image Nation Abu Dhabi as co-financer and collaborating once again with a docu helmer...
Drafthouse Loves Thy Neighbor; Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters Finds Distrib Housing
After taking The Act of Killing to the bank, Drafthouse's Tim League smells another docu winner. A full two months after its premiere in...
Boston Bulger; Magnolia Adds Berlinger’s Gangster Docu to Most Wanted List
A couple of months post festival, and a large number of Sundance preemed docs are being cuffed up by the docu distrib forces around...
Interview: Frank Pavich (Jodorowsky’s Dune)
You might remember Frank Pavich from his history of the New York hardcore music scene in N.Y.H.C., which found its release over a decade...
Who Picked Up Lambert & Stamp? Barker & Bernard’s Sony Pictures Classics That’s Who
Taking a strategic page from big studios dependence on pre-existing characters with a built in fanbase, Sony Pictures Classics docu line-up works with some...
Participant & Samuel Goldwyn Get Schooled with “Ivory Tower”; Rossi Sundance Docu Hits Theatrically in June
School might be out for summer, but this coming June, Participant Media and Samuel Goldwyn Films are adding the student debt question to the...
Fisherman’s Friend; AFFRM Nets Slamdance Preemed Vanishing Pearls
The folks at AFFRM are testing the docu-waters picking up the worldwide rights to Vanishing Pearls. Plans are to have Nailah Jefferson's debut/Slamdance preemed...
Share This; Sundance Preemed Docu on Aaron Swartz is Selected for 2014 Hot Docs Fest Opener
North America's premiere docu-buffet destination has selected the type of docu that in one sweeping motion is an insightful, touching and infuriating tale about...
Rich Hill Double Bill; The Orchard & PBS Mine For Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner
Deadline reports that 2014 Sundance's Grand Jury Prize Documentary winner has found a double down of a deal: a theatrical distrib home with the...
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster | Review
Sharkey Shines A Light On Struzen, Misses The Mark
There’s no doubt you’ve seen and at least admired the work of Drew Struzen. His meticulously painted...
Burn | Review
Putnam and Sanchez Help Fight Detroit's Inferno
It's no secret that the Motor City is in a state of concentrated shock. The decline of domestic...
Waiting For Lightning | Blu-ray Review
There have been plenty of quality biographical extreme sports docs released in the last couple years, with Jeff Tremaine's profile of BMX godfather Matt...
A Place at the Table | Review
Filling The Void: Jacobson and Silverbush Eye Hunger
While the United States continuously extends its charitable hands to famished communities the world over, we often...
The Last Gladiators | Review
Fight Club: Gibney Finds Tragedy In 'Knuckles' Nilan
The assiduous docu director Alex Gibney wrapped three films back in 2011, all of which seem minor...
Gideon’s Army | Sundance 2013 Review
Porter Profiles Public Defense With Appreciative Probing
Before dipping her toes into the film world as an executive producer on films like Serious Moonlight and...
Love, Marilyn | Review
Intimate Side of an Iconic Life: Garbus Digs Through Monroe's Personal Writings
Liz Garbus is well aware that the life and times of Marilyn Monroe...
The Central Park Five | Review
Burns Dissects Why Pride & Prejudice Put Innocent Youths Behind Bars
After years of acclaimed documentary mini-series, Ken Burns returns to the feature film with...
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Review
Gibney Exposes Suppression Of Truth Behind Ministerial Molestation
After taking a breather from feature hardline journalism with a series of lighter docs in Catching Hell,...
Tears of Gaza | Review
Suffer the Children: Causalities of War on Display in Norwegian Doc
Norwegian actress and director Vibeke Løkkeberg’s latest film, Tears of Gaza, is a visceral...
Secret Disco Revolution | TIFF 2012 Review
The Liberation Army: Disco Still Sucks with this Commentary Track
Proposed as more than just a dance and lifestyle craze, but as a coming out...
Leviathan | TIFF 2012 Review
Crustaceans & Coruscations: Castaing-Taylor and Paravel Pairing Offer Hyper-Stimulated Sound and Mounted Moving Camera Experience
The antithesis of a Jacques Cluzaud nature doc, Lucien Castaing-Taylor...
Camp 14: Total Control Zone | TIFF 2012 Review
Daring Us To Complain: Wiese Shows Us North Korea From The Inside
Behind the heavily barricaded borders of North Korea lay a slew of labor...
Detropia | Review
Blood Runs Thicker Than Oil In The Motor City
With a resume that includes the Oscar nominated Jesus Camp, and their Emmy nominated debut, The...
Ornette: Made in America | Review
A high point for U.S. manufacturing: Jazz genius Ornette Coleman
Shirley Clarke’s 1984 documentary ‘Ornette: Made in America’ is a portrait of music visionary and...
Girl Model | Review
If You're Having Girl Problems, I Feel Bad For You Son...
In Siberia, many families ignorantly push their daughters to become models in hopes...
True Wolf | Review
Poorly Domesticating The Wild
For Koani, a wolf picked from birth to be domestically raised for the purpose of a film (not this one), living...
Samsara | Review
Fever Dreams of a Tangential Wheel: Fricke’s Latest a Visual Feat, Contextual Blunder
A veritable poem of moving pictures, Ron Fricke’s latest visual analysis of...
Side By Side | Review
Film vs. digital doc obscures message with overt Hollywood deference
From the opening Oscar broadcast-style montage of iconic movie clips (apparently it is only Hollywood,...
Once In A Lullaby: The PS22 Story | Review
It's A Celebration: Making Internet Celebrities Out Of School Children
On the festival circuit earlier this year we were given the wonderful opportunity to see...
Senna | Blu-ray Review
Fans of motorsports generally get a bad rap, but not all racing is epitomized by the generic dim-witted redneck NASCAR fan, blasting country music...
Jiro Dreams of Sushi | Blu-ray Review
Anyone who is a fan of The Food Network will attest to their curious attraction to watching the preparation of food. It is part...
Ballplayer: Pelotero | Review
Searching For Sugar: New Baseball Doc Fails as Expose
There’s definitely nothing revolutionary about Ballplayer: Pelotero, the new documentary concerning the baseball industry in the...
China Heavyweight | Review
Pulling No Punches, Boxing Gives Hope For Poor Rural Youth
Modern China is a place that revels in tradition, honor, and hard work - ethics...
The Patron Saints | Review
Because I Could Not Stop For Death…
A common description of Woody Allen’s Interiors (1978) is that it’s a Woody Allen film drained of all...
