Video Premiere: Calexico - Algiers Documentary
With Calexico’s new album Algiers now available, the Tuscon duo has released a short documentary about recording in New Orleans. read more
Found in: Featured VideosSide by Side
In Side by Side, Christopher Kenneally takes on the ever-contentious topic of 35mm film versus digital video by exploring the development of each and comparing them, as the title says, side by side. The movie opens with an air of mourning for the death of film, and continues on to examine everything from when Arriflex stopped investing in film technology to when the first RED camera was released, and beyond. But perhaps most interestingly, Side by Side examines this subject from the standpoint of film-making careers and how they have been affected—explaining how positions as diverse as editor, cinematographer, film... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsWild Horse, Wild Ride
The best so-called “horse movies” are especially successful when they manage to seduce those members of the audience who have never identified as horse lovers. Alex Dawson and cinematographer Greg Gricus have created such a film, with their feature documentary Wild Horse, Wild Ride. The film is a gripping portrait of several individuals who train fully wild mustangs (described as “never been touched” horses), a near-impossible feat to accomplish in three months. Often playing more like a cowboy/cowgirl movie than a documentary, Wild Horse, Wild Ride takes the viewer on an unforgettable journey across the American Southwest where, together,... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsThe Rolling Stones Set Release Date for New Tour Documentary
The Rolling Stones have set a date for their upcoming documentary, The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling – Ireland 1965. Rolling Stone has reported that the band will screen their tour documentary at the New York Film Festival Sept. 29 with an encore showing Oct.3.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsSamsara
The cinematic dream team of director and cinematographer Ron Fricke and producer Mark Magidson placed the bar high when they set out to make Samsara. A visual montage of portraits and landscapes filmed for over five years in 25 countries, their stage set is literally the world. Their main character is the host of images put onscreen—a slightly more dynamic version of photography—and, being a nonverbal film, the only script is the musical score. Oh, and the plotline? Nothing less than that into which the film’s title translates (from Sanskrit)—“the ever-turning wheel of life.”... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsDeath by China
Economist Peter Navarro tries his hand at documentary filmmaking with mixed results in the provocative Death by China. As a wake-up call for Americans to pay greater attention to their nation’s corrupt corporate and political policies towards China since that nation’s induction into the World Trade Organization in 2001, Navarro scores points. But to take Death by China’s message seriously—and it is a profoundly serious one—the viewer must overcome Navarro’s less-than-imaginative, bargain basement filmic techniques. That Martin Sheen narrates the documentary lends it credibility, an intelligence that compels Navarro’s audience to sit up and take notice. So it’s a shame... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsWatch the Graceland Documentary, Under African Skies, for Free
Thanks to Snag Films, the Emmy-nominated documentary Under African Skies is now available to stream for free.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsMeet the Fokkens
Meet the Fokkens is the documentary by Gabrielle Provaas and Rob Shröder about Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old identical twins who have been working as prostitutes in Amsterdam’s Red Light District for the past fifty years. read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsThe Chilean Building (El Edificio de los Chilenos)
Let’s start with the safe claim that family dynamics are one of the most deeply felt parts of anyone’s life. It’s biologically ingrained in us to not only need parents, but to want to need them, too. In her documentary, The Chilean Building (El Edificio de los Chilenos), Macarena Aguiló explores a microcosm of blood bonds and how this innate desire plays out when extraneous circumstances force parent-child relationships to take a new shape. What begins by seeming like an artful news story about the children of Chile’s 1970s revolutionaries ultimately amounts to a case study of a simple human... read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsBjörk and Broadcaster David Attenborough to Make Music Documentary
Björk and U.K. broadcaster David Attenborough are teaming up again for a new documentary in which they will co-narrate a story about the evolution of music and how people and technology have altered its form. The Hollywood Reporter reported Attenborough and Björk: The Nature of Music will be the second project the two have worked on together after he narrated her multimedia creation Biophilia—a collection that will have a prominent place in the new documentary.... read more
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