Tag: Documentary Film Blu Ray Review
Criterion Blu-ray: Antonio Gaudí (1984) | Video Blu-ray Review
A hypnotic homage serving as part-travelogue, part visionary curation of Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi’s (1852-1926) masterworks in Barcelona, Japanese auteur Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1984 documentary...
Criterion Collection: Buena Vista Social Club | Blu-ray Review
The name Buena Vista Social Club is a recycled moniker, one which has acquired several layers of cultural resonance since it became absorbed into...
Criterion Collection: Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Blu-ray Review
Three time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight; Anastasia; Murder on the Orient Express), one of the most revered, versatile actors celebrated both as...
Napoli Napoli Napoli | Blu-Ray Review
In the late 2000s, fringe auteur Abel Ferrara experimented with a series of documentaries, and in-between 2008’s Chelsea on the Rocks and 2010’s Mulberry...
Criterion Collection: A Poem is a Naked Person | Blu-ray Review
Criterion snags documentarian Les Blanks’ heretofore lost title A Poem is a Naked Person for their collection, a portrait of singer-songwriter Leon Russell filmed...
Forever and a Day | Blu-ray Review
What may be most surprising about Katja von Garnier’s music doc Forever and a Day, a contemporary portrait of iconic hard rock/heavy metal German...
Criterion Collection: Dont Look Back | Blu-ray Review
Considered amongst the very greatest documentaries ever made and selected by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," D.A. Pennebaker's veritable...
Citizenfour | Blu-Ray Review
How do you make a riveting, chest tightening film out of the raw documentation of one of the most reported on watershed moments in the...
Criterion Collection: A Master Builder | Blu-ray Review
The third experimental cinematic endeavor from the writing/acting duo of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, A Master Builder, at last reaches a notable platform...
Criterion Collection: Hoop Dreams | Blu-ray Review
"This is one of the best films about American life that I have ever seen", Roger Ebert famously stated during the first of many...
Criterion Collection: Gates of Heaven / Vernon, Florida | Blu-ray Review
Long before he developed the still controversial cinematic technique of utilizing reenactments in The Thin Blue Line or his confessional-esque straight-to-lens Interrotron which was...
Criterion Collection: Les Blank: Always for Pleasure | Blu-ray Review
Many people may know Les Blank most for his association with Werner Herzog, who he filmed while on the brink of creative madness in...
Fed Up | Blu-ray Review
It’s no secret that in the last couple decades the number of overweight children in the United States has grown at an alarming rate....
Manakamana | Blu-ray Review
Birthed by the brilliant minds at Harvard’s increasingly influential Sensory Ethnography Lab, Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez’s Manakamana takes in the sights and sounds...
The Armstrong Lie | Blu-ray Review
Lance Armstrong is proof that even the best liars eventually fold to the burden of ugly truths. Under the immense pressures of competitor accusations...
Criterion Collection: Shoah | Blu-ray Review
Simply titled the Hebrew word for 'Holocaust', Claude Lanzmann's monolithic collage of memory and mind's eye elicitation looks at the Nazi's Final Solution via...
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...
Criterion Collection: Pina | Blu-ray Review
Wim Wenders' long imagined a Pina Bausch documentary with Bausch herself, a dear friend of the director, personally collaborating on the project. It was...
