Tag: documentary
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WHILE THE GREEN GRASS GROWS Interview: Director Peter Mettler Talks Life, Death, and Meaningful Cycles
I sat down with internationally acclaimed Canadian Swiss filmmaker, Peter Mettler, to discuss his latest hybrid documentary, his seven-hour magnum opus, While the Green Grass Grows: A Diary in Seven Parts (2025), which enjoyed its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto...
BURDEN OF DREAMS 4K Review: Werner Herzog vs. The Jungle
Les Blank's documentary, made with Maureen Gosling, magnificently captures a tale of a singular filmmaker's obsession. It's endlessly rewatchable.
CORONER TO THE STARS Review: The Story Behind the Most Controversial Chief Medical Examiner of All Time
It’s said that everyone’s life is a story. And naturally, every story has an ending. Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the titular “coroner to the stars,” as he’s been called, knows about both aspects of the story. Quite expertly, though far from simply. Having...
Playback: Jafar Panahi, Cinema Under Pressure, from THE WHITE BALLOON to IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Jafar Panahi makes films under immense pressure. The Iranian filmmaker's conditions of censorship and surveillance have become the grammar of his storytelling. Out of those limits, he's built one of the most radical bodies of work, where love for one's...
Friday One Sheet: EUROPE'S NEW FACES
A smoking vessel on an open sea. A literal and metaphoric image dominates the key art for Sam Abbas' documentary, Europe's New Faces, or "An observation of the migrant experience: From crossing the Mediterranean Sea to settling in Paris-based squats."...
Busan 2025 Review: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER, Social Stigma of Suicide Takes Center Stage in Measured Korean Indie
Indie cineaste Lee Kwang-kuk returns to Busan with his fifth film, Beautiful Dreamer, a sensitive tale of social stigma that dials down the wry humour that marked earlier works such as A Matter of Interpretation and A Tiger in Winter....
Toronto 2025 Review: COVER-UP, Takes A Closer Look at Seymour Hersh and The Ongoing American Experiment
“In case anyone cares, this is getting less and less fun. I’d like to quit this doc.” Seymour “Sy” Hersh spars with director Laura Poitras at several points during her feature length documentary ,Cover-up, a career retrospective of the iconic journalist....
Toronto 2025 Review: AKI, An Immersive Season in the North
We can get an impression of a place that we move through as a tourist; though of course that is always mediated by the fact that we are a tourist, and actually living in a place, learning and becoming a part...
Toronto 2025 Review: THE TALE OF SILYAN, A Miracle of Filmmaking
The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and...
RIEFENSTAHL Review: Elegant Doc About One of the Most Controversial Directors of All Times
Andres Veiel's documentary goes deep on infamous director Leni Riefenstahl.
THE PAPER Review: Finding Its LOL Rhythm
Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, Chelsea Frei, Tim Key, and Oscar Nuñez star in the faux-doc comedy series, debuting on Peacock TV.
Locarno 2025 Review: THE SEASONS Unearths Memory Through Layers of Land and Myth
Maureen Fazendeiro excavates landscape as living archive, fusing archaeology, oral history, and local myth into a layered docu-fictional portrait of southern Portugal's cultural memory.
CHAIN REACTIONS: Trailer And Release Date For Alexandre O. Philippe's Doc About THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
We have a new trailer and a theatrical release date for Alexandre O. Philippe's 2024 documentary, Chain Reactions. The last film from the documentary auteur had a successful and award-winning festival run, and now it is time to spread that...
KEROUAC'S ROAD: THE BEAT OF A NATION Exclusive Clip
Maybe it's because of the vast land in North America, how far you can drive without leaving a nation, but the open road has called to many a person. Jack Kerouac's famous novel On the Road certainly inspired many a road trip,...
Karlovy Vary 2025 Interview: ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT Charlie Shackleton Talks Genre Subversion, Market Pressures, and Nonfiction Reinvention
Charlie Shackleton reflects on the collapse of a true crime project and the creative detour it inspired, offering international film professionals a compelling insight into the evolving ethics, form, and industry pressures shaping contemporary nonfiction cinema.
Karlovy Vary 2025 Review: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Takes Justice for a Ride
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a political revenge thriller infused with absurdist comedy in his latest work, using the framework of post-authoritarian reckoning to examine the moral ambiguities of justice, memory, and collective trauma.
VIDEOHEAVEN Interview: Alex Ross Perry on Finding Clips, Video Stores and Their Place in Social Culture
Director Alex Ross Perry digs into the history of video stores in his documentary, then goes beyond that to explore how popular culture was affected, both then and now.
AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE Review: Brutal and Gory, Capturing the Purity of the Ritual
Albert Serra's documentary peers into the life of bull fighter Andrés Roca Rey.
Tribeca 2025 Review: THE DEGENERATE: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN, A Compassionate Portrait of a Complex Man
There is no filmmaker quite like Andy Milligan. A connoisseur of the depraved and debaucherous, Milligan’s lot in life was troubled, but out of the pain he suffered beginning in his youth he managed to create a unique oeuvre that...
