SnagFilms SummerFest: The Entrepreneur (2009) *** 1/2
: Documentaries, ReviewFor one week only, check out the world premiere of Jonathan Bricklin’s The Entrepreneur over at SnagFilms. It’s the opening film of SummerFest, the month long celebration of...
View ArticleSnagFilms Summerfest: 45365
: DocumentariesSnagFilms’ SummerFest rolls on with 45365, the Best Documentary Feature winner of the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. Here is SnagFilm’s opening blurb in case you’re too lazy to click over...
View ArticleIn the pipeline: Earth Days
: Documentaries, UpcomingComing soon: Robert Stones' upcoming doc Earth Days, an engaging and entertaining retrospective of the modern environmental movement - a look at how the movement started,...
View ArticleSnagFilms SummerFest: Second Skin
: DocumentariesThe third entry in SnagFilms SummerFest is now streaming online through 8/13. Check out Second Skin, a look at a few of the estimated 50 million people who play Massively Multiplayer...
View ArticleTrailer: Motherland
: DocumentariesGigantic Digital is a company dedicated to bringing independent cinema to the folks who live between New York and Los Angeles and who often don’t get a chance to see everything that...
View ArticleTokyo Film Festival to screen ‘The Cove’ after all
: Documentaries, Film FestivalsThe Cove, the well-intentioned but wildly overpraised button-pusher exposing dolphin slaughter in Japan was announced today as part of the lineup for the 22nd annual...
View ArticleSay, mister. Will you stake a fellow American to a free screening of...
: DocumentariesCapitalism: A Love Story to expand with free screenings tonight in select cities.(Read more...)
View Article‘South Park’ vs. ‘The Cove’: Blame Japan!
: Animation, Documentaries, Humor, TVSouth Park takes on The Cove(Read more...)
View Article‘The Cove’ dominates Cinema Eye nominations
: Awards, DocumentariesLouie Psihoyos’ button-pushing anti-dolphin slaughter documentary The Cove walked away with 7 nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors Thursday afternoon including the top award,...
View ArticleVeterans Day: ‘The Way We Get By’ on POV
: Documentaries, TVJerry Mundy, Joan Gaudet and Bill Knight The excellent PBS documentary program POV is screening The Way We Get By for Veterans Day tonight and I recommend you check it out. It tells...
View ArticleDocumentary Oscar short list
: Awards, DocumentariesFor better or for worse, here are the 15 documentaries that will vie for the Oscar next March. I haven’t seen all of them, but I can tell you No Impact Man should’ve been...
View ArticleDVD Review: The Cove (2009) ** 1/2
: Documentaries, Home Video, ReviewWe all love the creatures, but this expose of dolphin slaughter in Japan is little more than a grisly bit of rabble rousing.(Read more...)
View ArticleHey Noo Yawk – Drop yer socks and grab yer docs
: Awards, DocumentariesIf you live in New York and you’re eager to catch up on a few of this year’s Oscar short-listed documentaries, the fine folks who bring you the Tribeca Film Festival every year...
View ArticleDGA documenatary nominees
: Awards, DocumentariesThe Directors Guild of America’s documentary nominees: Agnes Varda – The Beaches of Agnes Sacha Gervaisi – Anvil! The Story of Anvil Mai Iskander – Garbage Dreams Robert Kenner...
View ArticleCinema Eye tumbles for ‘The Cove’
: Awards, DocumentariesThe anti-dolphin slaughter docutainment The Cove swam away with the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, the Outstanding Achievement in Production and the...
View ArticlePoster/Trailer: The Art of the Steal
: Art, Documentaries, Poster, TrailerLast night I finally caught up with the terrific documentary The Art of the Steal which premiered to good reviews at Toronto in 2009. I can happily report that...
View ArticleThe Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix coming September 10
: Acquistions, DocumentariesForget about the boring and probably bogus rumors that Joaquin Phoenix is going to be Bruce Banner / Hulk in The Avengers, I just want to see Casey Affleck’s documentary...
View ArticleToronto 2010: The Documentaries
: Documentaries, Film FestivalsToronto Film Festival programmers continue to unveil their 2010 Tree of Life and True Grit-less lineup and this morning they announced the documentary section Real to...
View Article‘The Oath’ coming to P.O.V. on PBS
: Documentaries, TVThe laundry list of great movies this year I should’ve reviewed but didn’t is long and sad. Near the top of that list is the documentary The Oath. Luckily, PBS’s essential P.O.V....
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Catfish (2010)
: Documentaries, ReviewYaniv Schulman embarks upon a romance by computer in Catfish If you spend any time at all online interacting with relative strangers, you need to see Catfish. It’s a documentary...
View ArticleDocumentary Fact vs. Fiction: The Methods and Madness of ‘Exit Through the...
: Analysis, DocumentariesNote: Any important spoilers regarding the films in question have been clearly marked so read in confidence whether you’ve seen all three movies or not. A number of...
View ArticleHow much would you pay to get your ‘Freakonomics’ on?
: Documentaries, ScreeningsOn Wednesday, September 22, movie fans in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, D.C., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle can decide for themselves how much they...
View ArticleOscar nominated short doc ‘Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner’ comes to HBO
: Documentaries, Shorts, TVUnless you lived in Washington in the late ’80s and early ’90s like I did, you probably have no idea who Booth Gardner is. Suffice it to say he was Washington’s 2-term...
View ArticleIDA Documentary Award nominees include The Oath, Exit Through the Gift Shop
: Awards, DocumentariesThe International Documentary Association has announced the 2010 IDA Awards nominees and two of my favorites are included. Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy’s exploration of...
View ArticleCinema Eye adds to the love for ‘Gift Shop’ and ‘The Oath’
: Awards, DocumentariesCinema Eye is still on my shit list for rolling over for pity-bait docutainment The Cove so eagerly back in January, but they’re on the path to redemption by joining the IDA in...
View Article2010 Oscar Doc Shortlist
: DocumentariesFrom the press release, here are your 2010 documentary Oscar shortlistees: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer - Alex Gibney, director (ES Productions LLC) Enemies of the...
View ArticleWaste Land takes 2010 IDA Award
: Awards, DocumentariesThe International Documentary Association, the only documentary group last year to have the good sense to ignore overrated documentary darling The Cove, surprised again this...
View ArticleCinema Eye Exits Through the Gift Shop
: Awards, DocumentariesYou want your documentary awards? I got your documentary awards right here, pal. The 4th Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking were handed out tonight and these are...
View ArticlePowerful doc ‘Where Soldiers Come From’ coming to PBS’ POV
: Documentaries, TVI’ve been banging the drum for the fantastic documentary Where Soldiers Come From since I saw it at LAFF over the summer and I’m happy to see that it will soon be available to...
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