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A Huge Creative Force on Topless Docby NDE on March 18, 2024
I’m excited to announce that a captivating documentary we edited, CAROL DODA TOPLESS AT THE CONDOR, opens this Friday, March 22, in San Rafael, San Francisco, New York, and LA–then rolls out to theaters across the country. Our staff […]
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‘Tack’ Takes Intimate and Powerful Journey Into Charges of Sexual Abuse That Sparked Greece’s #MeToo Movementby Postcardjunky on March 18, 2024
When two-time Olympic sailing champion Sofia Bekatorou revealed in 2020 that she had been raped by a senior member of the Greek sailing federation while competing for the national team, she inspired dozens of other women to break their silence, […]
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Calvinia review – jarringly nostalgic look at a South African childhoodby Phuong Le on March 18, 2024
Ran der Merwe’s documentary returns the director to the Northern Cape where he grew up, but glosses over trauma and injusticeSituated in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, Calvinia is a rural town blessed with a magnificently scenic […]
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Cheech & Chong Return for One ‘Last Movie’by David Fear on March 17, 2024
The legendary duo hit SXSW to talk about ‘Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie,’ the definitive doc on their career, comedy, pot (naturally), and a lot more
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These Conservative Documentaries Defy Hollywood, Inc.by Christian Toto on March 17, 2024
Some of the most provocative documentaries are ignored by Hollywood. Many weren’t screened in theaters and got snubbed by the entertainment press. Film critics looked the other way rather than give them a fair shake. These projects hail from […]
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Filmmaker Couple Asks Themselves ‘Why the F*** Am I So Sad?’ to Reclaim the Narrative of Childlessnessby Leo Barraclough on March 17, 2024
After 14 years together, editor Nela Märki and cinematographer-producer Martin Rattini locate a kernel of sadness in a shared life they describe as happy: they have not been able to have children. Grief and love inform the couple’s first […]
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EVG Etc.: Another week for the Veselka documentary; a national championship for NYU women’s hoopsby noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) on March 17, 2024
St. Patrick’s Day weekend outside McSorley’s on 7th Street by Steven • Police arrest a second suspect in the gang-war-related 2022 murders of LES salon owner Nikki Huang and East Village resident Jesse Parrilla (The Daily News … previously on […]
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Want to Protect Your Documentary from the Federal Government? Read Onby Anne Thompson on March 17, 2024
Congress has passed serious protections for non-fiction filmmakers with the PRESS Act, and you can help ensure it gets through the Senate.
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Phantom Parrot review – eye-opening documentary about Orwellian surveillance in the UKby Wendy Ide on March 17, 2024
The arrest of a British Muslim who refused to give up his phone password to UK border police kicks off Kate Stonehill’s look at the state’s excessive intrusion into our privacyBritish human rights activist Muhammad Rabbani had been stopped and […]
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The Flats review – a powerful look at the unresolved agony of the Troublesby Peter Bradshaw on March 16, 2024
Copenhagen documentary film festival: Alessandra Celesia’s urgent documentary about the residents of an estate in Belfast speaks to the lasting trauma of political violenceAlessandra Celesia’s film is part seance, part news story: a documentary […]
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The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem movie review (2024)on March 16, 2024
There has been a growing subgenre of non-fiction films that I jokingly call “Internet Bad” movies. The worst of these feel like shallow fearmongering, playing up the fears of older viewers like a modern “Reefer Madness.” Part of the problem […]
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‘Don’t Worry, Sári’ Questions Familial Responsibilities and Urges One to Preserve Oneselfby Leo Barraclough on March 16, 2024
Being a family member is a role that changes all the time. Hungarian filmmaker Sári Haragonics has been reflecting on these shifts based on her own experience, losing her mother 13 years ago. In her graduation short “Coming Face to Face,” shot […]
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‘My soul is so tired’: Stormy Daniels stands up to Maga hate in new filmby Ramon Antonio Vargas on March 16, 2024
The adult film star – at center of hush-money payments in run-up to 2016 election – is featured in the new documentary StormyStormy Daniels, the adult movie star who received hush-money payments at the center of one of Donald Trump’s pending […]
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“When I Started Putting the Talking Head [Interviews] In, It Didn’t Feel as Beautiful”: Director Antony Crook on His SXSW-Premiering Mogwai Doc, If the Stars Had a Soundby Scott Macaulay on March 15, 2024
On X recently, a poster asked for song titles named after movie directors. One of the few that came to mind was from the Glasgow-based band, Mogwai — “Stanley Kubrick,” from their 1999 EP. It’s a vintage Mogwai track, bass and drums in mid […]
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In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon movie review (2024)on March 15, 2024
At eighty-one years of age, Paul Simon is still producing the most interesting music of his career. That makes over six decades of Simon’s impact on the popular music consciousness—from his earlier days as an Everly Brothers-inspired double act […]
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As a woman of colour trying to break into film, Merchant Ivory nurtured my career | Lettersby Guardian Staff on March 15, 2024
A new doc gives a partial and racialising view of the film production company, says Nasheed Qamar Faruqi. Plus a letter from Mark RedheadI first worked for Merchant Ivory Productions (MIP) as a runner on Jefferson in Paris in 1994; my first day on a […]
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Prime Video greenlights Allen Iverson docby Justin Anderson on March 15, 2024
Amazon’s Prime Video streamer has greenlit a new feature-length documentary from Shaquille O’Neal’s Jersey Legends and Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media about the journey of former NBA superstar Allen Iverson. The as-yet-untitled …Read […]
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Judd Apatow boards doc on 1972 “Godspell” show starring future “SCTV,” “SNL” legendsby Andrew Tracy on March 15, 2024
Filmmaker Nick Davis (pictured left) is teaming with super-producer Judd Apatow (right) for a feature documentary on the 1972 Toronto production of the stage musical Godspell, which featured a cast …Read More
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