documentary
Stories We Tell
“Every family has a story.” Canadian actor and director Sarah Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) lost her mom, Diane, to cancer in 1990. In Stories We Tell, her quietly spectacular documentary, she sits with her family and friends and asks them to “tell the whole story [about Diane], from start to finish.” The Read More
Leviathan
Leviathan opens with a passage from the Bible, a fitting prelude to the immense scale of the 90 minutes that immediately follow. The film itself is far from an epic production though; Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel started out making a documentary on a Massachusetts fishing port but, after going out with one of the Read More
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Werner Herzog chops up and rearranges footage from a Russian television documentary about Bakhtia, a remote Siberian village on the Yenisei river, and provides his signature lyrical narration that elevates the footage into a moving examination of strength, liberation, and friendship (of the man/dog variety.) It’s a film about a people with a deep Read More
2013 Oscar Nominated Shorts Spotlight: Documentary
This year's group of short documentary nominees may look like a harrowing bunch to sit through (topics include homeless teens, African children receiving heart surgery and breast cancer patients to name a few) but that should be no reason to scare anyone off from watching them this weekend. All five shorts share a common thread Read More
Undefeated
The winner of last year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary, Undefeated, tells the story of Bill Courtney and his rag tag group of footballers at Manassas High School in North Memphis, Tennessee and their struggles to come together to complete a winning season. While watching Undefeated I was reminded constantly of my personal favorite documentary, Read More
The Naked Zinester
Awesome, just – awesome. This short documentary, The Naked Zinester, explores the life and work of Aaron Tsuru and from Jon Nix’s directorial style we get to go up close and very personal with the man behind the camera. As the documentary is being filmed there are sequences where Cherry La Voix, Aaron’s main model Read More
Only The Young
Filmmakers Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet observe the lives of two teenage skateboarders who must deal with the complications that life often brings to adolescents. By following these two outcasts, who change their hair color just as much as their wardrobes, the documentary captures what it is like to be a modern teenager in a Read More
The House I Live In
With the US’ recent election legalizing marijuana in Washington and Colorado, it appears that the American public’s perception towards drugs (or specifically one drug) has changed significantly over the last decade. Ten years ago it would have been nearly impossible for those two states to pass the same proposition, and it probably would have been Read More
Girl Model
Nowadays Toddlers & Tiaras and the like are mega successful TV shows that glamorize rather than exploit the modeling world, so it seems like great timing for a documentary to show the real side of modeling. Girl Model reveals that there is a lot of corruption in the modeling world in the form of prostitution, Read More
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