documentary
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Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (TIFF Review)
As Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait opens, a title card claims “1,001 Syrians” helped make the film. The reason...
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Episode of the Sea (TIFF Review)
Directors Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan profile the small, unique town of Urk in Episode of...
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Tracy Droz Tragos On Finding Hope and Love in Rich Hill
With her incredible documentary Rich Hill, Tracy Droz Tragos takes us into the homes and minds of three...
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To Be Takei
It’s hard “shocked” when information about a celebrity’s past is revealed. Nowadays information about someone gets dredged up...
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The Dog
If you ask any film buff to rattle off a list of 10 great Al Pacino films, or...
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Alive Inside
If you listen to enough random music on the radio or the internet, you are likely to hear...
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Rich Hill
“We’re not trash. We’re good people.” These are some of the first words we hear in Tracy Droz...
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Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story
First-time filmmaker Michael Lee Nirenberg interviews his father, Bill Nirenberg, in his new documentary, but fuzzy sentimentality and...
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The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival Kicks Off Tomorrow
The most renowned Jewish film festival in the world, the 34th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, kicks off...
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Code Black
Ryan McGarry’s Code Black, an engrossing documentary about one of the busiest emergency rooms in the country, revolves around the...
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A Family Leaves Home to Explore the World in The Nomadic Family Project
It’s an exciting time right now in the wonderful world of crowdfunding. I mean, it doesn’t get much...
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‘Life Itself’ Director Steve James Feels Lucky to Have Been With Roger in His Last Days
Timeless sports docu Hoop Dreams was famously one of Roger Ebert’s favorite films. It’s fitting, then, that its director,...
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Whitey: United States of America Vs. James J. Bulger
The opening to Joe Berlinger’s latest documentary is the format’s biggest staple: the talking head. Stephen Rakes, a...
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Brian Knappenberger Talks ‘Internet’s Own Boy’ (Part 2)
Brian Knappenberger’s The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz follows the late tech activist’s journey from...
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Carl Deal and Tia Lessin Talk ‘Citizen Koch’
Bewildered by the results of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which resulted in corporations and labor...