Tag: Documentary Films
Only The Young / Tchoupitoulas | DVD Review
When it was announced that Only The Young and Tchoupitoulas would be released together in a single package, I was a little taken back...
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s | Review
Glossy Emptiness; Fashion’s Greatest Church
The measure of success used in the fashion industry is unlike any used in other commercial art. Rather than massive...
Bending Steel | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Carroll's Debut A Wonder-ful Metamorphosis
It turns out that being an old time strongman has less to do with bulging muscles, leopard skin leotards and...
Fuck For Forest | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Exploits For Earth: Marczak Gazes Into The Gutter
After the breakout success of his docu debut At the Edge of Russia, Polish director Michal Marczak...
15 Reasons To Live | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Zweig Somberly Celebrates Human Resilience
Occasionally, moments of epiphany can boil down the colossal essence of mortality into simple, elegant terms. For Alan Zweig, director...
Alias | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Latimer Drops Beat On Toronto's Rap Scene
Taking it's name from one of the four Toronto street rappers it peeks into the lives of, Michelle...
The Manor | Hot Docs 2013 Review
Polemic Crisis: Cohen Turns Camera On His Fam
Having flown the coop over a decade ago to work in the film industry as a digital...
The Central Park Five | Blu-ray Review
After years of acclaimed documentary mini-series, Ken Burns returns to the feature film with his daughter Sarah Burns and fellow colleague David McMahon, who...
No Place on Earth | Review
The Descent: Tobias Brings Recently Discovered Holocaust Tale to Light
For her directorial debut, producer Janet Tobias documents a harrowing discovery made by a spelunker...
Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner | Review
Family Portrait: Kleine’ Uses Husband as Subject for Light Documentary
Fans of director and actor Andre Gregory should be excited, and, overall, pleased with director...
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...
My Amityville Horror | Review
Dysfunction Junction: Walter Revisits Source of Classic Horror Film with Mixed Results
Thanks to Stuart Rosenberg’s 1979 film adaptation of Jay Anson’s infamous novel, "The...
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...
The Jeffrey Dahmer Files | Review
Twenty years after he was caught red handed, Jeffrey Dahmer continues to be a storytelling gold mine, but for newbie doc helmer Chris James...
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...
Off the Beat Track: First Run Features Grab Docu on Paul Bowles
Not sure if anyone has referred to him as the Stuart Sutcliffe of the Beat Gen, but Paul Bowles will receive some posthumous affection...
Interview: Alex Gibney (Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God)
A crime story that spans decades, takes place on multiple continents and sees the most noble of authority figures involved in a vast cover-up....
Google and the World Brain | Sundance 2013 Review
Legality Be Damned, Making Wells A Reality
Ben Lewis started as a commentator on the modern art world, but in recent years has made a...
West of Memphis | Review
Witch Trials Reborn: Berg’s Comprehensive Doc a Compelling Achievement
Amy Berg, Oscar nominated director for her first directorial effort, Deliver Us From Evil, returns with...
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters | Review
Suburban Horror: Shapiro Dissects Crewdson
Ben Shapiro's new documentary on renowned suburban photographer Gregory Crewdson is a detrimentally revealing work the focuses on his latest...
Only The Young | Review
Mims and Tippet Find Faith In Punks
Another non-fiction tale of sun-kissed west coast kids, Only The Young follows a trio of good-hearted teenage punks...
How to Survive a Plague | Review
A Hitchhiker’s Guide: France’s Documentary a Masterful Ode to AIDS Activism
By focusing on the birth of the Activist group ACT UP in 1987, when...
Criterion Collection: The Qatsi Trilogy | Blu-ray Review
The Qatsi Trilogy is a collection of films made by Godfrey Reggio between 1983 and 2002. Each film offers an extraordinary and unforgettable cinematic...
Manufactured Landscapes | Blu-ray Review
Edward Burtynsky has for decades been lensing large scale photographs that document the often devastating visual impact of humans on our environment en masse....
Waiting For Lightning | Review
Bigger, Faster, Higher: Biography Of Way's Big Air
There have been plenty of quality biographical extreme sports docs released in the last couple years, with...
Chasing Ice | Review
Warming Up to the Idea; Visually Recorded Hard Facts Closes the Climate Change Case for Good
The name James Balog should be quite familiar if...
Girl Walk // All Day | Review
Dance Dance Revelation: Krupnick's Own Jubilant Mashup
In 2010, the one man remix act Girl Talk released his latest mashup record, All Day, in which...
The Flat | Review
Geneological Cryptography: Unearthing Incomprehensible Family Ties
As the only member of his extended family truly interested in decoding his mysteriously secretive grandmother's past, Israeli documentarian...