First Position (Kargman, 2012)
Admittedly, my two favorite moments in Bess Kargman's First Position happened when nobody was dancing.
Category: Film Festivals
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The Queen of Versailles (Greenfield, 2012)
Not just one of the best documentaries at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Lauren Greenfield’s The Queen of Versailles deserves to be in the conversation as one of the best films of 2012.
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Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (Gertten, 2012)
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, aside from having the distinction of the hardest title in awhile to spell correctly, is the kind of film of which every documentary film festival needs at least one. It’s not exactly a feel good story, but it is a feel better story.
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Love Free or Die (Alston, 2012)
Nobody has ever hated me the way Christians have hated me.
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Italy Love It or Leave It (Hofer and Ragazzi, 2011)
Italy Love It or Leave It is a modest film, almost modest enough to work.
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The Waiting Room (Nicks, 2012)
Peter Nicks's The Waiting Room is the sort of documentary that advocates on either side of the American health care debate could end up pointing at to bolster their ideological claims.
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Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (Chiang, 2012)
"The Tea Party does not represent this district, I do."
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Miss Representation (Newsom, 2011)
My review of Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Miss Representation, and some meditations about how women are portrayed in American media are now available at Her.meneneutics, Christianity Today's blog for women.
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Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (Berinstein, 2012)
Dori Berinstein’s valentine to the iconic Broadway star is, like its subject matter, always affable
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The Other F Word (Nevins, 2011)
It is hard for me to say, precisely, when The Other F Word lost me for good.