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Ten documentary shorts make Oscars shortlist
Source: Variety The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has selected ten films as contenders for the documentary short subject category for the 90th Academy Awards. The ten titles were chosen by voters from the Academy’s documentary branch, who viewed this...
Law and Order: SVU’s Mariska Hargitay brings awareness to untested rape kits in “I Am Evidence”
Source: Self On "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," Mariska Hargitay as character Lieutenant Olivia Benson works tirelessly to get justice for the sexual assault and rape survivors who enter Manhattan's Special Victims Unit. In real life, Hargitay, through her...
“Quest” is a moving portrait of an American family
Source: The New York Times Barack Obama is not the subject of “Quest,” Jonathan Olshefski’s new documentary, an intimate and patient portrait of a North Philadelphia family. But the film, which begins and ends with presidential elections — Mr. Obama’s in 2008 and his...
“Icarus” filmmakers respond to Russia’s Olympics ban for state-sponsored doping system
Source: IndieWire In an unprecedented move, the International Olympic Committee has banned Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. In December 2016, the I.O.C. began disciplinary proceedings against 28 athletes who represented Russia at the previous Winter...
These are the 61 Best Documentaries of All Time
Source: Vogue In Alphabetical Order: A Poem Is a Naked Person (2015) - Les Blank’s documentary about the legendary rock musician Leon Russell was filmed more than 40 years before it was released. The film about Russell, an enigmatic artist who played with the Beach...
In “Bean,” Long Island, NY native finds love, and a kidney, through Tinder
Source: Newsday When Alana Duran joined Tinder, she never imagined she’d be swiping right on a new kidney. In 2015, Duran was looking to meet potential dates on Long Island, New York. What began as some casual flirting over Tinder and texting with Lori Interlicchio...
Netflix’s creepy “Voyeur” will scare you away forever from motels
Source: Entertainment Weekly "Voyeur" details the writing and troubled publication of journalist Gay Talese’s 2016 book, "The Voyeur’s Motel," about a Colorado motel owner named Gerald Foos, and the decades he spent spying on guests from the motel’s attic. “They...
“The Newspaperman” tells the story of legendary Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee at a key moment for journalism
Source: Variety On a wall at the Washington Post headquarters is a quote from Ben Bradlee, the legendary editor for whom a conference room is named. It reads, “The truth, no matter how bad, is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run.” "The Newspaperman: The Life...
“Cries From Syria” director talks about his responsibility to bring the Syrian civil war to the screen
Source: Deadline “This movie is a lot about kids. It’s a younger generation that was born, and in their first steps, they’re going into the war,” Oscar-nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky says, reflecting on his Syrian civil war documentary "Cries from Syria."...
“Nowhere” tells the story of how one man escaped the hell of Darfur
Source: The Atlantic “The whole world knows about the problems in Darfur,” says Nouri, a recently resettled refugee, in Kristian Engelsen’s moving short film, "Nowhere." "My life was in danger. Many in my family died. So I had to run away.” Now, Nouri lives in...
Seven Documentaries About Writers to Watch on Netflix After Joan Didion’s “The Center Will Not Hold”
Source: Book Riot Love Between the Covers – This glimpse into the hardworking women of romance is a must-see for anyone interested in the publishing industry at all, since romance is indisputably the best selling genre in fiction. Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel Garcia...
Bristol MP demands reform of UK’s plainly failing drugs laws in the wake of new BBC doc, “Drugsland”
Source: BBC An MP has demanded reform of the UK's "plainly failing" drugs laws in the wake of a new BBC documentary. Bristol MP Thangam Debbonaire used Prime Minister's Questions to call for a Royal Commission to deal with the "catastrophic impact" of drugs. The...
Fox Sports’ answer to ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary series premieres today with “89 Blocks”
Source: Sports Illustrated Fox Sports' answer to ESPN's "30 for 30" documentary series kicks off today with "89 Blocks." The film is the first of Fox Sports new "Magnify" series of feature documentary films. The 86-minute film chronicles the East St. Louis...
“Chasing Coral” director is confident there will be a climate change solution: “We have no choice other than to solve it”
Source: IndieWire For a time, “Chasing Coral” director Jeff Orlowski was worried he wouldn’t actually be able to capture the climax of his film. “We weren’t capturing the bleaching and the cameras didn’t work,” he recently said. “We knew that, unfortunately for the...
“Meth Storm” is a heartbreaking film with no easy answers
Source: The Film Stage For some who grow up in rural Arkansas, there are limited options: you can either be a meth dealer or a cop chasing meth dealers. Set in the close-knit community of Faulkner County, native sons of the region, Craig and Brent Renaud, have...
“A Dying King: The Shah of Iran” chronicles a monarch’s strange demise
Source: Los Angeles Times The fascinating story of how a single case of lymphatic cancer may have led to the 444-day Iran hostage crisis is skillfully recounted in “A Dying King: The Shah of Iran.” Writer-director Bobak Kalhor, using a trove of strong archival...
Why Cyntoia Brown, who is spending life in prison for murder, is all over social media
Source: CNN This week, the case of a woman named Cyntoia Brown went viral on social media, even though she has already been in prison for more than ten years. Brown is serving a life sentence for the murder of a Nashville man in 2004. According to Brown, after a...
“The Road Movie” is the crazy dash-cam documentary you never knew you needed
Source: The Film Stage Much of the Western world first learned about the weird, wonderful, and bizarre culture of Russian dashboard cameras in 2013 when the Chelyabinsk meteor blazed across the Ural Mountains and was captured on a multitude of low-grade lenses. Now...
Oscars 2018: A Look at the Contenders in the Best Documentary Feature Race
Source: Deadline In typical fashion, this year’s Oscar race for Best Documentary Feature began at the Sundance Film Festival in January with the festival yielding several standouts. Winner of the U.S. documentary Grand Jury Award was Antonio Santini and Dan Sickles’...
Robert Reich’s “Saving Capitalism” arrives on Netflix
Source: The New York Times Asked to pick a spot for lunch to discuss Robert Reich's new Netflix documentary, “Saving Capitalism,” a representative for the former labor secretary proposed Bobby Van’s Steakhouse, across the street from the New York Stock Exchange. It...