MAN ON WIRE
In the American marketplace, foreign documentaries often go unnoticed. Yet James Marsh’s Man on Wire is that rare critical success that has inspired passionate responses from audiences across the...
View Article2009 SPIRIT AWARDS PREVIEW
Well, folks, the time has come yet again for the annual one-two punch of the Spirit Awards and the Oscars, a weekend that is no doubt certain to restore one’s faith in humankind and remind everyone...
View ArticleA Report From the 2009 Cinema Eye Honors
(The following report was submitted by Steve Holmgren and Liz Byer. As we were unable to attend this year’s festivities, we were happy to receive it, and now, to post it.) Independent filmmaking is a...
View ArticleMOVIES ON BIG SCREENS – July 31, 2009
Wow. As in wow. This weekend’s slate of new theatrical releases in New York City reads like a potential Best Foreign Films of the Year list. Even if every distributor pooled their resources into...
View ArticleFilmmaker Reflections – The 2000s: Vol. 5
(If you haven’t already, please be sure to check out Filmmaker Reflections – The 2000s: Vol. 1 for a series explanation and to read the first batch of reflections.) Filmmaker Reflections – The 2000s:...
View Article2010 Cinema Eye Honors: Tully’s POV
Friday night at The Times Center in midtown Manhattan, the documentary community gathered for the third annual Cinema Eye Honors to toast the best nonfiction filmmaking of 2009. The room was packed...
View ArticleRED RIDING
Here are some things I do like: serial killers (especially ones that prey on prostitutes, behavior I do not condone but enjoy seeing investigated by hard-nosed police detectives); the filthy, funny-sad...
View ArticleSARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL 2010 – A Wrap-Up
If the Sarasota Film Festival isn’t my very favorite festival of them all, it’s certainly hovering right near the tippy-top. I’m sure that sounds like a fishy statement to make considering my...
View ArticlePROJECT NIM
To its tremendous credit, Project Nim does not presume to make a political case for anything more than the experience and feelings of its animal subject; there may be no more potent form of cinematic...
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