William Blake once wrote that exuberance is beauty. Despite the success of Ben Affleck's Argo here, this fest seems to...
Read moreSome trailers don't need accompanying synopsis or explanation. This isn't one of those. Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about Indonesian Death Squads...
Read moreA few facts about today's news item worth paying attention to -- as told to me by Michael Moore himself...
Read more"Battle for Brooklyn" (RUMER Inc.) "Bill Cunningham New York" (First Thought Films) "Buck" (Cedar Creek Productions) "Hell and Back Again"...
Read moreThe cumulative effect suggests a world in which murder, desperation and operatic levels of tragedy are workaday (one town is...
Read moreThe Cinema Eye nominations have been announced! Please note short film nomination for Tim Hetherington, the reporter/filmmaker who was killed...
Read moreBeverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short...
Read moreA couple of filmmakers have been hard at work putting together a film on the typewriter and how it fits...
Read moreWhat a wonderful documentary is Jon Shenk's The Island President, which just had its first viewing in North America here...
Read moreKris Tapley at In Contention calls Werner Herzog's new documentary "a crucial viewing experience." In short, the film is a...
Read moreNearly 42 years to the day since the Stonewall Riots of June 27, 1969, New York State becomes the 6th...
Read morePete Hammond interviews David Carr and the LA Times' Jim Rainey If Microsoft never saw the internet coming, and Google...
Read moreFeaturing our lifelong pal, David Carr. Oscar doc race is already looking, once again, like the category featuring the best...
Read moreOscar-nominated documentary Waste Land aired on PBS Independent Lens last Tuesday, but I didn't notice the listing in time give...
Read moreTo watch DisneyNature's African Cats is to celebrate the roar of the female cat who not only is responsible for...
Read moreBanksy's Livin' the Dream When the dust settles of Oscars 2010, which is mercifully in eleven long days, what will...
Read moreAJ Schnack over at All These Wonderful Things makes a pretty good case urging the Academy (this never works) towards...
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