Tag: Documentary Films
Joy of Man’s Desiring | 2014 Hot Docs Review
All Work and No Play Makes Côté Toy With Factory Observation
After a sultry opening monologue from a mystery woman that resonates with a statement...
Who is Dayani Cristal? | Review
Body Talk: Bernal & Silver’s Doc an Empathetic Experiment
A three pronged approach to uncovering the identity of an illegal immigrant’s corpse in the Arizona...
O-Scope Do Whatever Common People Do; Distrib Grabs SXSW Docu “Pulp: A Film About Life, Death, And Supermarkets”
Austin's tents might be put away and the venue halls are emptied but the flurry of expected post SXSW fest deals are in overdrive....
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...
Please Don’t Stop the Music; BOND/360 Like the Sounds of Aud Fave “Alive Inside”
Not unlike the Beanie Baby popularity of the 90s, it appears that 2014 batch of Sundance docs are all the craze among indie and...
Climate Change Made Fashionable? Inconvenient Truth Sequel in the Works
Directly on heals of the U.N.'s more news is not good news announcement, producer Lawrence Bender told THR that a sequel to An Inconvenient...
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...
Interview: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel (Finding Vivian Maier)
When first time filmmaker John Maloof stumbled upon Vivian Maier's mysterious, but gorgeous body of work at auction back in 2009, he did not...
Finding Vivian Maier | Review
Photo Bomb: Maloof and Siskel Rewrite Modern Art History
Tales of buried treasure have long been the stuff of cinema gold, from The Treasure of...
F For Fake…Oscilloscope Grab “Art and Craft” Prior to Tribeca Film Fest Premiere
If Tim's Vermeer found traces of lenses and mirrors in the painting process, Sam Cullman and Jennifer Grausman's Art and Craft looks to set...
Mistaken For Strangers | Review
Bound By Blood, Not Band: Berninger Tails Brother
The life of touring musicians has long been a favorite subject of documentarians the world over, but...
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...
Jodorowsky’s Dune | Review
Resurrecting Sci-fi Legend: Pavich Taps Alejandro
Frank Herbert's epic novel Dune has been a sci-fi benchmark since it's original release back in 1965, and since,...
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...
Criterion Collection: A Brief History of Time | Blu-ray Review
In wake of the massive non-fiction success that was The Thin Blue Line, singular director Errol Morris really could have done any number of...
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...
Song from the Forest | 2014 SXSW Review
Obert Plays A Polyrhythmic Requiem of Cultural Sovereignty
Director Michael Obert’s VPRO IDFA Award winning, SXSW imported Song from the Forest meditatively chronicles the aloof...
Particle Fever | Review
Supersymmetry Vs. Multiverse: Levinson's Doc A Non-Experiment
Over three decades ago, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) began it’s initial steps toward constructing the...
Muscle Shoals | Blu-ray Review
Director Greg Camalier seems to think there is something in the water, the source being the supposed ‘singing’ Tennessee River which runs through the...
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...
The Last of the Unjust | Review
Return to the Void: Lanzmann Resurrects Murmelstein
Claude Lanzmann’s unfathomable devotion to exposing the truths of the Holocaust is incomparable in the history of cinema....
Dragonslayer | DVD Review
While at a house party in Chino, California, director Tristan Patterson accidentally found a subject for his directorial debut in personable 23 year old...
12 O’Clock Boys | Review
Battles In Baltimore: Nathan Rides With The Boys
First time director Lotfy Nathan has spent the last few years documenting war in the streets of...
Visitors | Review
Reggio Looks Into The Eyes Of The Audience
Steven Soderbergh was right when he said at the premiere of the film, a hundred people could watch...
Marmato | 2014 Sundance Review
Grieco Witnesses Dirty Deeds Done In Exchange For Gold
Mining is a dirty business, obviously, but not just in the harsh physical conditions of the...
Tim’s Vermeer | Review
Teller Makes Watching Jenison's Paint Dry Fun
Tim Jenison is not a painter. In fact, he lies on the opposite end of the spectrum of...
Leviathan Snubbed, but…The Act of Killing, Dirty Wars, Stories We Tell Among Oscar’s 15 Short List
It's been an extremely rich year for doc film and while The Academy appear to have included some of the year's most critically acclaimed...
Leviathan | Blu-ray Review
This year’s quintessential art doc, Leviathan is the latest feature from Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, the duo behind Sweetgrass and the driving force...
When I Walk | Review
Encasing Life In Amber: DaSilva Docs Descent With MS
In the brief years leading up to 2006, Jason DaSilva was a healthy young filmmaker, traveling...
American Promise | Review
An Education: Brewster and Stephenson's 12 Year Docu
Documentarians Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson have been investigating the multicultural divide that pervades American culture for...
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear | DVD Review
With a solid background in psychology and a foundation in direction via the University of Film and Television Konrad Wolf in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany, the...
Valentine Road | Review
Communal Intolerance: Cunningham Finds Apathy and Heartbreak In The Wake of Larry King's Murder
On February 12, 2008, in Oxnard, California, an openly gay 15-year-old...
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction | Review
Peering in: A Look into the Life of Harry Dean Stanton
It took director Sophie Huber one year to convince Harry Dean Stanton to be...
A Story of Children and Film | 2013 TIFF Review
Youth In Revolt (and More): Cousins Channels Marker
It should be no question that Mark Cousins’ vast knowledge of film history is integral to his...
The Trials of Muhammed Ali | Review
Pound For Pound: Siegel's Critical Bio-bit Middleweight
Pop culture commentator Chuck Klosterman recently reminded in his study of cultural villains, I Wear The Black Hat,...
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...
Cutie and the Boxer | Review
Art is a Demon: Heinzerling Finds Tragic Love in the Shinoharas
Zachary Heinzerling's documentary debut may not pack the political punch of most trending hard-issue...
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear | Review
Gurchiani's Lens Acts As A Georgian Confessional
With a solid background in psychology and a foundation in direction via the University of Film and Television...
Herman’s House | DVD Review
Herman’s House has an odd issue. At first it seems quite apparent that director Angad Bhalla’s debut suffers from a lack of focus, bobbing...
The 16 Must See Docs of 2013 So Far
As Moore’s Law has continued to raise the quality and lower the cost of AV equipment, and more fledgling filmmakers have dipped their feet...
The Up Series | DVD Review
Back in 1964, fourteen seven year old British children from vastly different social-political backgrounds were brought together, asked about their lives, views and futures...
Letters To Jackie | AFI Docs 2013 Review
Couturié Rallies Stars & Stripes In Kennedy's Name
Few former presidents remain as beloved in the eye of the world as the late John F....
Call Me Kuchu | Review
Wedging The Closet Door Open In Uganda
In the United States, the last few decades have been tarnished with the debate over whether or not...
Interview: Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks)
Just a month before Bradley Manning finally appeared before a military judge to confess that he did indeed leak thousands of sensitive military documents,...
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks | Review
Gibney Ciphers Assange's Brain Child
Back up a few years and you probably never had heard the name Julian Assange or his tiny little whistle-blowing...
The Fruit Hunters | Review
Finding The Forbidden: Chang Indulges In Produce
It seems that for some, the appetite for rare and exotic fruits extends far beyond mere curious fascination...
