All posts tagged "documentary"
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Movie News
Confronting a Serial Killer Director Joe Berlinger: We’re in the Third Documentary Revolution
April 18, 2021Joe Berlinger probably had a hand in whatever new docuseries you’re binging. He executive produced the...
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Movie News
Why Did You Kill Me: What Belinda Lane Did to Solve Her Daughter Crystal’s Murder
April 16, 2021Belinda Lane spent 14 years bringing to justice the people responsible for the death of her...
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Movie News
Ken Burns: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
April 5, 2021This fall marks the 40th anniversary of Ken Burns’ first documentary, Brooklyn Bridge. In the decades...
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Interviews
How The Truffle Hunters Directors Stumbled Upon a Mysterious Community in Northern Italy
March 4, 2021Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, collaborators on the racing documentary The Last Race, found themselves traveling...
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Movie News
Slamdance Doc A Tiny Ripple of Hope Tracks One Man’s Sacrifices to Help Chicago Youth (Exclusive Clip)
February 22, 2021A Tiny Ripple of Hope — now available to stream through the Slamdance Film Festival — follows...
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Movie News
Sundance Survey: Moviemakers Give Us an Inside Preview of 19 Sundance Films
January 28, 2021The Sundance Film Festival was one of the few in-person events unscathed by the pandemic in...
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Movie News
Baby God: Meet the Vegas Fertility Doc Who Secretly Used His Own Sperm on Countless Women
January 19, 2021Baby God chronicles how Las Vegas fertility doctor Quincy Fortier impregnated patients with his own sperm,...
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Podcasts
Soros Director Jesse Dylan on How George Soros Became a ‘Boogeyman’ of the Right
December 13, 2020George Soros may seem a strange target for political vitriol: He’s a Holocaust survivor and philanthropist...
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Podcasts
64 Died in a Nightclub Fire — and a Whole Government Resigned
December 7, 2020The horrors of the 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania — as recounted in the...
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Movie News
Spree and Online Narcissism; The Right Stuff Trailer; DTF Documentary Ethics
August 20, 2020In today’s Movie News Rundown: The new Right Stuff trailer is here; the Tiger King zoo is closing...
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Interviews
Meet Daryl Davis, the Black Musician Who Makes Klansmen See That Black Lives Matter
July 27, 2020In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. Sound familiar? It’s the...
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Interviews
(In)Visible Portraits Is a ‘Love Letter to Black Women and a Re-education for Everyone Else’
June 19, 2020The dedication for (In)Visible Portraits, the new documentary from Oge Egbuonu, calls it a “love letter to Black...
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Interviews
You Don’t Nomi Succeeds Where Showgirls Fails (Podcast)
June 12, 2020If you were being generous to Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven’s notorious 1995 bomb about a dancer named...
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Movie News
Ren & Stimpy Doc Makers Explain Why They Didn’t Tell a #MeToo Story
January 30, 2020The directors of Happy Happy Joy Joy, a Sundance documentary about the ’90s cartoon Ren &...
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Cinematography
Midnight Traveler: a Family’s Phones Document the Refugee Crisis
October 10, 2019Midnight Traveler, a new documentary from producers Emelie Coleman Mahdavian and Su Kim, uses one of...
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Directing
Kings of Beer Director Sean Mullin On Maintaining Artistic Integrity While Working on Branded Content
August 8, 2019Kings of Beer follows six of Budweiser’s top brewmasters. The diverse cast of characters and their...
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Directing
Zhuhai Caper: The Long Gone Wild Team Almost Landed in a Chinese Gulag While Filming Undercover
August 5, 2019You may remember Ric O’Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a...
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Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
April 23, 2019“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a...
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Interviews
Was Lost, But Now It’s Found: Alan Elliott on Completing the 1972 Aretha Franklin Music Doc Amazing Grace
April 4, 2019Among the many disparate and overlapping interested parties—lovers of soul, lovers of concert documentaries, Sydney Pollack...
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Interviews
Mixed Media: Award-Winning Touch Me Not Explores Notions of Intimacy Through a Variety of Boundary-Pushing Methods
February 28, 2019Part documentary, part narrative feature, part research project, part autofiction, Romanian writer/director Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not rests...
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Moviemaking
Cakewalk: Bio-Doc Ottomaticake Pushed its Production Team to Discover Their Secret Recipe for Joyful Moviemaking
October 22, 2018Ottomaticake came about much like Otto’s cheesecake—an unexpected surprise beginning, followed by many challenges, capped off...
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Cinematography
Eye Piece: DP Shabier Kirchner Lensed Skate Kitchen on Wheels, But Didn’t Skate Through His Demanding Shoot
August 9, 2018As DP on Skate Kitchen — writer-director Crystal Moselle’s first narrative feature about an all-female skateboarding...
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Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
July 17, 2018The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the...
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Directing
Believer: Director Don Argott and Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds on Their Doc in Support of LGBTQ Youth
July 3, 2018Molded by his Mormon upbringing, Dan Reynolds, lead singer of the internationally renowned band Imagine Dragons,...
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