Tag: documentary
Friday One Sheet: OXANA
There is no point in subtlety in street protest. And the poster for French-Ukranian biopic of Oxana Chatchko aims to confront - in the movie poster context. Swearing, political slogans, and toplessness are all part of activist group FEMEN's modus operandi...
GRAND THEFT HAMLET Interview: Sam Crane, Pinny Grylls Talk Their Innovative Doc, MUBI, Massively Multiplayer Promenade Performance
The directors of one of the year's most unusual elevator pitches talk documentary innovation, virtual theater, and streaming curation.
Sundance 2025 Review: PREDATORS Unveils a Dark Legacy
David Osit's documentary revisits 'To Catch a Predator,' a popular television show with a controversial legacy.
SLY LIVES! (AKA THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS) Review: Sly Stone Doc Enlightens, Entertains
Win a well-earned Academy Award on your first try and chances are, you’d be tempted to call it a day and quit while you were ahead. For Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, though, winning a Best Documentary Oscar for Summer of...
Sundance 2025 Review: COEXISTENCE, MY ASS!, Comedian's Pursuit of Middle East Peace
Director Amber Fares follows comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi, who uses humor to navigate the fraught landscape of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
Sundance 2025 Review: In GEN_, Doctor Fights for Equitable Healthcare
Gianluca Matarrese's documentary offers an emphatic exploration of the delicate balance between personal aspirations and systemic limitations, as seen through the humanistic lens of Dr. Maurizio Bini within Italy's conservative healthcare system.
Rotterdam 2025 Review: FIUME O MORTE!, Playful Croatian Psychogeographic Docudrama About Nationalism
Igor Bezinović's hybrid docudrama tackles Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1919 occupation of Fiume, engaging locals in site-specific meta-textual reenactments.
Vlissingen 2024 Review: THE GULLSPÅNG MIRACLE Defies Easy Categorization
A genrebending documentary about the stories we tell ourselves.
Vlissingen 2024 Review: FILM IS DEAD, LONG LIVE FILM Proves There Is Still Life In Celluloid
Peter Flynn's documentary shows the humanity in celluloid collecting.
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.
