Super Furry Animals document new-album process

By Muriel Vega at 11:05 AM on February 24, 2009

As previously reported, Super Furry Animals will release their ninth album as a digital download on March 16 and as a physical copy on April 21 via Rough Trade. And now the restless Welsh rockers have announced the release of a documentary that follows them through the recording process of their still-untitled, forthcoming album....  read more

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SXSW doc showcases "sound sculptor"

By Matt Goodlett at 4:31 PM on February 12, 2009

A documentary about the Seattle-based "sound sculptor" Trimpin will premiere at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival....  read more

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Johnny Depp to re-narrate Doors documentary

By Natasha Richardson at 4:33 PM on February 11, 2009

Johnny Depp sure is keeping the company of a lot of dead people lately. In addition to all the news surrounding his next starring vehicle, the Hunter S. Thompson book-to-film adaptation, The Rum Diary, Depp will lend his voice to a new documentary about The Doors....  read more

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Burma VJ turns Sundance's eye toward government protests

By Matt Goodlett at 12:43 PM on January 23, 2009

Burma VJ, a documentary comprising smuggled footage of the uprising against the military dictatorship in Myanmar, debuted in North America over the weekend at the Sundance Film Festival....  read more

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Handmade Nation documentary begins screening this month

By Rachael Maddux at 5:00 PM on January 16, 2009

In 2006, Milkwaukee-based artist and entreprenuer Faythe Levine took up a camera and struck out to document what she calls "the new wave of art, craft and design" in America. What resulted is Handmade Nation, a documentary chronicling the work of a country-wide community of boutique owners, subversive stitchers, puckish printmakers and feisty knitters, which will see a number of feature-length screenings this winter. ...  read more

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Helvetica filmmakers return with new design-oriented doc

By Jeremy Goldmeier at 3:00 PM on January 9, 2009

For his documentary-directing debut, Gary Hustwit did not follow the local basketball team through its championship tournament. He did not dissect a pressing political issue. And he sure as hell didn't eat exclusively Big Macs for a month. ...  read more

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PBS's Make 'em Laugh to do just that in January

By David Marek at 11:40 AM on December 15, 2008

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A priest, a rabbi, and a six-hour PBS documentary on the history of American comedy walk into a bar. Well, there’s no punchline, but it’s a damn good lead in to a news piece, right? Anyone? Be sure to tip your waitress…...  read more

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Worth The Walk: Five African Women's Journey to Hospital

By Julie Jacobs at 10:00 AM on November 12, 2008

A severe condition in which a hole develops between a woman’s rectum or bladder and her vagina, obstetric fistula results from obstructed labor and leads to...  read more

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Planet B-Boy

By Jason Killingsworth at 3:00 PM on November 11, 2008

For the average person, breakdancing is merely a jocular piece of...  read more

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HBO nabs Ed Norton-produced Barack Obama doc

By Jeffrey Bloomer at 5:20 PM on November 7, 2008

With a sensational ending now in tow, Edward Norton’s Class 5 Films has sold television rights for its unfinished Obama documentary to HBO for “low seven figures,” according to Variety. ...  read more

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