Posts Tagged ‘documentary’
Essay
Portrait, Landscape
By Ed Halter
On the boundary-blurring portraits of artist-filmmaker Luke Fowler.
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Discovering James Blue
By Giovanni Marchini Camia
An introduction to the deeply engagé filmmaker, and his pioneering works.
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Reverse Shot on Djibril Diop Mambéty:
Things Unseen
By Boukary Sawadogo
Laurence Gavron’s documentary Ninki Nanka, The Prince of Colobane closely observes the celebrated director during the making of his final feature, Hyenas.
Essay
Attention Must Be Paid
By Rebecca Panovka
Today, Frederick Wiseman’s films play like reminders of all the mundane, uncinematic elements of daily life we’ve been missing throughout the pandemic.
Interview
Claire Atherton
By Yonca Talu
Chantal Akerman’s frequent editor of three-plus decades talks about the process, and honor, of working with the celebrated Belgian filmmaker on a trio of her later documentaries.
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Beyond Bronxspoitation
By Kazembe Balagun
A look at Decade of Fire, a documentary that provides an essential community-driven narrative to the Bronx arson crisis of the 1970s.
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Robert Kramer: Cinema/Politics/Community
By David Fresko
With fellow travelers or on his own, the maverick filmmaker traversed national and formal boundaries to bring his radical politics to the screen.
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Movie Prom Highs and Lows
By Laura Kern
Docs like Midnight in Paris present joyful takes on the high-school tradition, while fiction films more often reveal another side.
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The Collective Creation of Christopher’s Movie Matinee
By José Teodoro
How a director turned the reins of a documentary made at the height of the late ’60s counterculture movement over to a group of Toronto youth eager to tell their own story.
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Roberta Cantow’s Intimate NYC Portraits
By Nellie Killian
On the award-winning director’s short works Clotheslines and If This Ain’t Heaven.
Conversations
Judy Irving
By Yonca Talu
Dark Circle co-director Irving recounts the long journey of making a film on the history and aftereffects of nuclear energy and how her documentary subjects have grown more heartening since.