Tag: Documentary Film

Mads Brügger’s Cold Case Hammarskjöld | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Remarkably still comfortable working with the confines of the gonzo investigative docu style of filmmaking, Mads Brügger comically addresses how storytelling can curtail and...

Interview: Liza Mandelup’s Jawline | 2019 Sundance Film Festival

Who influences the influencers? Who’s really on the other side of the screen? Is there any hope for the wistful ideals of live-streaming culture?...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #69. Matt Wolf – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

More or less working on what we can imagine was a bewildering docu project for the past four years, NYC based filmmaker Matt Wolf's Recorder:...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #63. Jessica Oreck – One Man Dies a Million Times (Docu)

Pretty much on a breakneck pace since she introduced us to Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo in 2009 (here is our interview), there has been...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #43. Maya Newell – Kids (Docu)

Not a remake of the seminal Larry Clark film but rather a project about First Nations and the generations of children stuck on the...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #40. Liza Mandelup – Jawline (Docu)

Featured as one of Filmmaker Mag's 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2017, it's the close proximity with her subjects (perhaps in the same...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #37. Petra Costa – Impeachment (Docu)

A slow cook process on a hot button topic, Petra Costa's third feature film was a Sundance Institute invitee for the 2018 Documentary Edit and Story...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #35. Brett Story – The Hottest August (Docu)

A subject close to Robert Redford's heart, climate change has been haphazardly handled in the likes of An Inconvenient Truth and perhaps The Hottest August...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #31. Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe – He Dreams of Giants (Docu)

Premiering in Cannes with a whimper, Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote might actually benefit from the circulation of a making of...

Video: Steve Loveridge’s Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. | 2018 Sundance Film Festival

A docu project shrouded in controversy, and perhaps mystery, several including the singer/songwriter subject of the film (and perhaps even the filmmaker himself Steve...

Hal | Review

My Friend Hal: Scott Redefines the Showbiz Doc With Show-Stopping Debut Feature Hal Ashby was one of the finest cinematic craftsmen who ever lived, with...

The Royal Road | Review

Jenni Olson begins The Royal Road, her latest emotional excavation of Hollywood nostalgia via Benning-esque 16mm landscape portraiture, by self-referentially quoting Michel Chion on...

Counting | Review

Overheard Yet Alive: Cohen Continues Poetic Pursuit of Travel Jem Cohen invites us once again on a lackadaisical travelogue through cityscapes and unkempt streets, through...

Stray Dog | Review

Still Learning New Tricks: Hall Heals Via Empathy & Remembrance Much less cinematically invigorating than Akira Kurosawa's noir of the same name and miles away from Tsai...

2015 True/False Film Fest: The End, A Festival Wrap Up

For being just a brief 4 days, True/False is a densely packed festival, and I mean that in the true celebratory sense, full of...

2015 True/False Film Fest: Finders of a Century of Heck? – Day 2

One of the joys of True/False, it turns out, is that nearly all of the post-screening Q&As are hosted not by programmers or associate...

Ornette: Made in America | Blu-ray Review

Shirley Clarke’s final feature film emulates the free form style of its subject, legendary jazz musician Ornette Coleman, playfully editing fragments of live performances,...

Interview: Doug Block (112 Weddings)

Being that roughly half of the human population at some point in their life embark on the insanity that is marriage, it's unlikely you've...

Blood Brother | Review

India, AIDS & Amity: Hoover Follows Friend's Heart It's really no wonder that often when westerners find themselves drifting, looking for more from life, they...

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