Tag: Documentary Films
Exclusive: Poster for Catarina Vasconcelos’ The Metamorphosis of Birds
The 70th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (set to launch on February 20th) has built a solid Encounters programme (fifteen selections) line-up...
2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #53. Asif Kapadia – Maradona
With a bit of Hand of God luck, football fans (some people call it soccer) would rejoice if Asif Kapadia made his third trip this...
Video: Elan & Jonathan Bogarin’s 306 Hollywood | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
A first docu to be presented at Sundance's NEXT section, we began our fest with a transient poetic kaleidoscope representation of arti-"facts". Much like...
What’s Up Doc?: Park City Premieres From Pennebaker/ Hegedus, Herzog & Greene Help Bring In The New Year
Having started this doc tracking project back in the summer of 2014, its been incredibly fascinating to see the development of these films and...
Video Interview: Maxim Pozdorovkin & Tony Gerber (The Notorious Mr. Bout)
You may know the co-directors of The Notorious Mr. Bout for their prior individual projects, the likes include Maxim Pozdorovkin's co-directed project HBO alongside...
The Notorious Mr. Bout | Review
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spoof: Gerber & Pozdorovkin Indulge Bout
You probably know him by his wildly exaggerated media coined title, the 'Merchant of Death', or...
Cartel Land | Review
Good, Bad & Ugly: Heineman Embeds in the Borderlands
Towards the end of Matthew Heineman's remarkable Cartel Land, which sees the filmmaker embedded deep within two...
The Wanted 18 | Review
Got Milk? Cowan & Shomali See The Glass Half Full, Celebrating Community Action In Beit Sahour With Stop-Motion
Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali’s partially animated docu-drama,...
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story | Review
8 Feet Tall and Light as a Feather: Walker and LaMattina Chronicle the Life and Love of a Puppeteering Legend
You’d be hard pressed to...
Iris | Review
Summer Hours: In Life's Twilight, Maysles Looks at a Late Life Fashion Icon and Finds Love in Work, Marriage & Stuff
Watching Iris, a...
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...
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: “Something Better To Come” on Day 1
It must be said how nice it is to be free of the bone chilling cold which I've been enduring these last few months...
Best of Fest – Docs: Citizenfour Continues Historic Run, Patricio Guzmán Makes Triumphant Return
Award season as come to a close, and we've all been witness to what is a historic unprecedented run for one urgent film. The...
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness | Review
The Brothers Ben Find Supernal Solace On The Fringe
There are creative collaborations and there are perfect unions. The newly born cinematic relationship between experimental...
Exclusive Clip: Home Away From Home in Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters
There are few films that have made an impact on the docu landscape like Jesse Moss' The Overnighters, which made its debut at Sundance earlier this year (it's...
Interview: A.J. Edwards – The Better Angels
It's with good reason that producer Terrence Malick has gotten top billing in the PR campaign for The Better Angels, namely the ethereal tone...
Interview: Robert Greene & Brandy Burre (Actress)
Having recently been picked up for theatrical distribution by The Cinema Guild, director Robert Greene's latest documentary digs deep into the idea of life as...
What’s Up Doc?: Louie Psihoyos Tops Our *New* Monthly Top 50 Most Anticipated Docs Guide
They often get quite a bit less attention than their fictional brethren, and it doesn’t help that many films fly under the radar while...
The Overnighters | Review
Love Thy Neighbor: Moss Finds Faith In Oil Boomtown
In the small town of Williston, North Dakota, a modern day boomtown is growing exponentially as...
Tales of the Grim Sleeper | 2014 TIFF Review
In Broomfield We Trust: Docu-helmer Hits the Pavement on Decades Sprawling South Central Serial Murder Case
Harkening back to his fascination with the backwoods serial...
Anything But Crude; RADiUS Dives into Margaret Brown’s “The Great Invisible”
RADiUS' Tom Quinn and Jason Janego have traded in suit & tie garb for some wetsuit gear as they've landed the rights to Margaret...
Expedition to the End of the World | Review
Dencik Sails For Science and Existentialism
At first glance, Danish director Daniel Dencik's Expedition to the End of the World seems a blatant ripoff of...
Dinosaur 13 | Review
Miller Asks: Who's Dinosaur Is It Anyways?
Before 1990, only twelve Tyrannosaurus Rex had ever been discovered. As you may have guessed, Dinosaur 13 documents...
The Dog | Review
Dog Eat Dog: Berg & Keraudren’s Doc an Intriguing Portrait of a Famous Bank Robber
Destined to be a compelling double feature event with Sidney...
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...
Rich Hill | Review
Born of a Small Town: Droz Tragos & Droz Palermo Regard Three Boys Living With Ingrained Poverty and Troubled Pedigree
With increasing frequency, documentary filmmakers...
Jordan M. Smith’s Top 10 Best Docs of 2014 So Far
Thanks to the increase in access to small scale non-fiction films through the barrage of streaming services viewers now have access to - Netflix,...
Interview: Andrew Rossi (Ivory Tower)
Andrew Rossi's prior film, Page One: Inside the New York Times, delved into the newspaper industry while it began to teeter on the brink of...
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...
Interview: AJ Schnack and Nathan Truesdell (Caucus and We Always Lie To Strangers)
Director AJ Schnack and his producing partner Nathan Truesdell had an incredibly busy week at the 2013 Hot Docs Film Festival, peddling a pair...
The Kill Team | Review
Kill or Be Killed: Krauss Meticulously Reassesses the Situation
Part courtroom drama, part frontline footage film contextualized by Morris-esque investigative interviews with those on trial...
The Unknown Known | Blu-ray Review
The poster of Errol Morris’s newest interrotron bonanza, The Unknown Known, features former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld sporting his signature squinty eyed, cheese...
Criterion Collection: Hearts and Minds | Blu-ray Review
As a historical cinematic document that depicts the horrors of the Vietnam War with unflinching nerve and political consternation, Peter Davis’s Academy Award winning...
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...
112 Weddings | Review
We Are Gathered Here Today To Reconsider: Block Delves Into The Meaning of Marriage Via 20 Years of Wedding Videography
Over the years, director Doug...
Point and Shoot | 2014 AFI Docs Review
Motorcycle Diaries: Curry Sees VanDyke Grow From Boy To Rebel
As kids, nearly everyone falls in love with the idea of throwing caution to the...
Cousin Jules | Blu-ray Review
After Cousin Jules took home the Special Prize of the Jury after it’s premiere at the 1973 Locarno Film Festival, Dominique Benicheti’s masterfully constructed...
The Orchard Adds Radice’s “No No: A Dockumentary” to Win Column
The Orchard waited until today, which happens to coincide with the hallmark anniversary date of Dock Ellis’ no-hitter to announce their pick-up. Via their docu...
Citizen Koch | Review
Corporations Are People: Lessin and Deal Question Why
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's Citizen Koch looks to shine a light on the political upheaval going...
Elena | Review
Float On: Costa Laments Sister In Intimate Portrait
Petra Costa has been trying to process the suicide of her older sister for over two decades...
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | Review
Don’t Menschion It: Myers’ Debut a Loving Tribute to a Notable Friend
Those that savor uncomplicated glimpses into the oft castigated entertainment industry will most...
The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga | 2014 Hot Docs Review
Of Forest and Folklore: Oreck Lenses Extraordinary Essay on Eastern European Relationship with Land and Myth
Recently, Jessica Oreck has been settling into a more...
For No Good Reason | Review
Paul Has Precision But Less Purpose Than Steadman
Anyone familiar with Hunter S. Thompson surely knows the work of his gonzo visual counterpart, Ralph Steadman....
DamNation | Review
River Runners: Knight & Rummel Ruminate On Damming Evidence
Just as directors Ben Knight and Travis Rummel’s Red Gold firmly yet astutely opposed the mining...
Fed Up | Review
David vs. Goliath: Soechtig Takes on the Food Industry with Child Obesity Exposé that Begs to Differ on the Pizza as Vegetable Issue
It’s no...
The Last Season | 2014 Hot Docs Review
Fungus Among Us: Dosa Makes Friends With The Matsutake
Though the name Sara Dosa may be new to some, the fledgling director already has some...
Interview: Stephanie Soechtig, Laurie David & Heather Reisman (Fed Up)
Stephanie Soechtig's latest film had its premiere earlier this year in Park City where, amidst a host of other issue driven documentaries in the...
Everything Will Be | 2014 Hot Docs Review
Kwan Finds Tradition and Trasfiguration in Chinatown
No major city is without a Chinatown, each with its own cast of colorful characters, their shops stocked...
