2015 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Day 1: Lies, Tigers, and Mountains, Oh My!
Today’s trio of films featured a journey inside the deceiving mind, as well as adventures in the forests and mountains of South Asia.
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Revisiting Ben-Hur (1959) in Anticipation of a Remake
I am skeptical about remaking Ben-Hur, but revisiting William Wyler's classic reminded me that it is far from a perfect movie.
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Red Army (Polsky, 2014)
This briskly paced documentary about Soviet hockey excels both as a gripping personal story and a microcosmic portrait of life in the USSR.
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Benson, 2013)
Eleanor Rigby's conceit—I'm tempted to say "gimmick"—is that it shows their two stories back to back rather than interweaving or cutting between them. Thus it becomes both a Rashomon story and a meditation on how we make and preserve memories. The films are designed to be played in either order, with one screening at TIFF flip-flopping to give us Her and Him.
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Second Chance Giveaway — Win The Battle of the Five Armies on Blu-Ray (CLOSED)
Last week we gave away a free digital copy of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Our sponsor has sweetened the deal by offering those who didn't win a second chance to win the movie, this time on Blu-Ray.
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Do You Believe? (Gunn, 2015)
While lacking the full-court press anti-intellectualism of its predecessor, this new movie from the makers of God’s Not Dead still suffers from preposterous storylines and ugly bigotry.
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Giveaway — CLOSED
1More Film Blog is giving away a free digital copy of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
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SXSW 2015 — GTFO: Get the F&#% Out
For women who refuse to sit on the sidelines and let men decide what jobs they can have, what opinions they can state, or even what games they can play, threats are hardly few and far between.
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The Thin Place #52: The Jones Family Will Make a Way at SXSW
On the road at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, Ken and Todd report back on the documentary The Jones Family Will Make a Way.
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SXSW — David Gordon Green, John Cusack, Sally Field, Brian Wilson, and Ex Machina
Ever wonder what a press conference or Q&A session is like at a major film festival. Here's a taste of what it's like.