You’ve Come a (Long?) Way, Baby
Oh, we like to congratulate ourselves in the West (and America in particular) that women have more rights than they did at some indeterminate time in the past or in some repressive culture with which we can compare.
Category: Film Festivals
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Persepolis (Paronnaud, 2007)
A lot of films can break your heart--a precious few can enlarge and renovate it.
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Art & Copy (Pray, 2009)
Doug Pray’s documentary about the rise of the advertising age, replete with interviews from industry giants and snippets from the greatest television ads of all time, was a real festival crowd pleaser.
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Wounded Knee (Nelson, 2009)
Director Stanley Nelson (perhaps best known for Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple ) delivers another great documentary. Equal parts history lesson and civics lesson, Wounded Knee skillfully… Continue reading "Wounded Knee (Nelson, 2009)"
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Salonica (Poloni, 2009)
Those accustomed to documentaries of place trying to capture a geographical location through a cross section of its people may be slightly saddened to find that Paolo Poloni’s meditation on… Continue reading "Salonica (Poloni, 2009)"
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Mechanical Love
Phie Ambo’s Mechanical Love kicked off this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The two main story lines follow a Kyoto engineer working on making a “geminoid” of himself (and… Continue reading "Mechanical Love"
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Camp Diaries (Noland, 2009)
I asked Noland about the title of his film and specifically why he chose the word "diaries" since the photographs in the film were overlaid not with words from the occupants of the internment camps but words from news and film reels which mediated the images (and the experience) for the public.
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Documentary Film and the Power of Empathy
A look at some of the best films of the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
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Owning the Weather (Greene, 2009)
If one proverbial mark of a good narrative film is three good scenes and no bad ones, one way to gauge a documentary is whether or not it is capable at some point or another of making you sympathetic to multiple perspectives.
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Forgetting Dad (Minnich, 2008)
Forgetting Dad is a beautiful, melancholy, and deeply compassionate film...