Tag: documentary
RESYNATOR Review: Rather Amazing and Completely Fascinating
Alison Tavel's documentary about her father's invention of a revolutionary musical instrument is a compelling watch and even better than I had hoped.
SEPARATED Review: The Past Is Prologue on US Immigration Policy
In the first half of the first Trump administration, several thousand children were forcibly separated from their parents in a ‘zero-tolerance’ deterrence policy that was cynically designed to discourage Latin American migrants from seeking entry into the United States of...
DOC NYC 2024 Review: UNION, A Film That Won't Be Streaming on Amazon
In a world of plutocracy, the working-class struggle is not a left or right issue.
CHASING CHASING AMY Review: Self-Discovery, Acceptance, and the Dark Side
Revisiting cinematic legacies has become a genre unto itself. In 2021, the Tribeca Film Festival showcased Eddie Martin's documentary The Kids, a behind-the-scenes expose of Larry Clark's cult classic, revealing a web of collective trauma, exploitation, and victimhood. This...
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT Review: Invigorating, Infuriating Documentary Epic
Like much of the jazz that soundtracks it, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat doesn't hold your hand. From the start, the film unleashes a frenetic, almost overwhelming, visual language. It's a visual language that, along with the phenomenal titular soundtrack,...
New York 2024 Review: SUBURBAN FURY, The Truth is Still Out There in This Captivating Documentary Thriller
Even with all the collective force of human imagination, evidenced by books, scripts and conspiracy theories, nothing can be as wonderfully and sometimes scarily incredible as reality. Some history lessons, even seemingly lesser ones, are so genuinely wild it’s hard...
THE IN BETWEEN Poster Exclusive: Lyrical, Personal Poster for Lyrical, Personal Movie
We are pleased to premiere the brand new poster for the documentary film The In Between, the debut feature by Robie and Alejandro Flores/ The film had its successful world premiere at SXSW earlier this year and is traveling non-stop...
Hawaii 2024 Review: CHAIN REACTIONS Roars with Recollections
What do Karyn Kusama, Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, and Takashi Miike have in common? They all speak of their experiences on a certain film that influenced them in one way or another in Alexandre O. Philippe’s (Lynch/Oz, 78/52, Memory: The...
Dutch Film Festival 2024 Review: LIKE TEARS IN RAIN, The Many Adventures Of Rutger Hauer
The documentary Like Tears in Rain by the late Rutger Hauer's goddaughter Sanna Fabery de Jonge recently played at the Nederlands Film Festival (NFF). The film paints an intimate picture of the actor. Hauer, who was born in 1944 in...
New York 2024 Review: NO OTHER LAND Chronicles Living Under Occupation
The suffering of people in this film is staggering, but so is their resilience.
New York 2024 Review: DAHOMEY, On Putting Souls Back
Mati Diop documents the repatriation of stolen African treasures from France.
UKRAINE: ENEMY IN THE WOODS Review
The British BBC documentary Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods dryly and with restraint shows the harshness and bloodiness of life and death on the Ukrainian front this past winter. Drones and increasingly precise artillery are turning life on both sides...
Friday One Sheet: FAYE
Lounging by the pool in a silk robe and stiletto heels at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1977, actress and style icon, Faye Dunaway is shown in a kind of Sunset Boulevard-esque tableaux the morning after she won the Academy Award...
Tribeca 2024 Review: SLAVE PLAY. NOT A MOVIE. A PLAY. Deconstruction As an Art Form
Jeremy O. Harris directs a documentary that pulls apart his provocative stage play and then puts it back together.
Tribeca 2024 Review: PIROPOLIS, Devastating Fires Start With a Single Spark
Nicholas Medina's documentary follows a volunteer fire brigade in the port city of Valparaiso, Chile.
Hot Docs 2024 Review: IMMORTALS Follows Iraqi Youth on the Frontlines
Swiss director Maja Tschumi presents a compelling exploration of the lives of Iraq's youth navigating the post-US invasion landscape, through the lens of the pivotal 2019 October Revolution.
Friday One Sheet: GASOLINE RAINBOW
Sometimes, typography makes the poster stand out. Consider the key art for The Ross Brothers' latest documentary, Gasoline Rainbow, featuring a black and white image of some kids on an automobile by the grassy shoulder of a long road. The...
SXSW 2024 Review: A HOUSE IS NOT A DISCO, Burning Down Preconceptions
Brian J. Smith directs a love letter to Fire Island Pines, the legendary queer beach town in New York.
Rotterdam 2024 Review: THE LIGHT Points Attention To An Art Scandal
In May 1995, Denmark was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of its occupation by the Nazis during World War 2, and many festivities were planned. As part of these, an art installation called 'Peace Sculpture 1995' was greenlit...
Toronto True Crime Begins Year-Round Programming at Hot Docs, Starting With THE PEZ OUTLAW
The Toronto True Crime Festival is returning with year-round programming at the Hot Docs Cinema.
