Tribeca Review: Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
Even though Monty Python ended their run in the 1980s, they’re still curtural icons. Even for people like me, born after their disbanding, ...
Tag: Documentary
Reviews
Review: Thank You for Playing
There are moments of Thank You for Playing that are so painful because the documentary feels so personal. It’s about Joel Green, a ...
Reviews
Tribeca Review: The Birth of Sake
At a certain point in Erik Shirai’s documentary The Birth of Sake, it becomes apparent that the film isn’t just about the art ...
Trailers
First trailer for My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
It seems documentaries about eccentric filmmakers is the next big thing, as My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn follows suit with last ...
15 documentaries advance for Academy Awards
Documentary film is awesome, but most people don’t rush out to watch it or even have the ability to do that if they ...
First trailer for Act of Killing follow up The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer’s Indonesian genocide documentary The Act of Killing was one of the best films of 2013. It was unique in that it ...
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Trailer for The Death of Superman Lives documentary is kookoo bananas
Remember how bad everyone thought Man of Steel was? Could you imagine that film being about six times worse? The Death of Superman Lives: ...
Reviews
Review: Particle Fever
I like physics. I probably have as good a grasp of the field as any film critic, and I frequently read articles about ...
Trailers
Trailer for Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
As a young lady whose favorite childhood toys were a garbage bag full of Ninja Turtles action figures and who arrived at the ...
Trailers
New trailer for whimsical soccer movie This is Not a Ball
Leading up to the 2014 World Cup, (which is taking forever, am I right?) artist Vik Muniz has created the quirky, tongue-in-cheek documentary ...
Woman replaces the dead with dolls in “The Valley of Dolls” documentary
Filmmaker Fritz Schumann visits the mostly abandoned village of Nagoro in his creepily sweet short documentary The Valley of Dolls. Schumann profiles 64-year-old Nagoro ...
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Short trailer for Ukrainian protest documentary Maidan teases tension
Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s newest documentary Maidan will follow in the footsteps of other uprising and protest documentaries and chronicle the events that ...