documentary
Art and Endurance at Seattle’s 25-Day Fest
A first take on Seattle’s crowd-pleasing nearly month-long international festival turns up great music docs and a revitalized Shakespeare.
Video: Four Ways of Looking at Chinese Reality
China’s historical transformation over the last 25 years unleashed a new kind of reality, and a new kind of filmmaking to go with it.
The Big Ones: FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA
Martina Kudláček’s new film offers the bracing yet affable truth about Peter Kubelka.
Raoul Peck, in his Own Voice
‘Stop showing our sadness, our dead bodies,’ says the maker of a documentary on misguided philanthropy for Haiti.
The Guru and You
Vikram Gandhi’s mocku-documentary takes on our all-too-willing suspension of disbelief.
The Art of Filmmaking: Les Blank
Bay Area filmmaker Les Blank dies at 77; a 2007 interview celebrates this prolific maker of documentaries on food, music and culture.
Daily | Les Blank, 1935 – 2013
Prolific, idiosyncratic, adventurous, Blank explored a dazzling range of music, food… cultures. Updated through 5/3.
POTUS in Focus: OUR NIXON
Penny Lane, at play with primary sources and vivid soundscapes, brings Richard Nixon and staff to life.
On Topic at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Sorting contemporary docs and the ancient past in Thessaloniki, Greece.
On Midwifery and Moviemaking
Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore talk about bringing a story about natural childbirth to life.
