‘Llyn Foulkes One Man Band’ Review
The painter stands about 20 feet in front of a sprawling tableau and makes a confession to the camera all too familiar to anyone who has ever witnessed addiction and obsession: “I can finish if I want…
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The painter stands about 20 feet in front of a sprawling tableau and makes a confession to the camera all too familiar to anyone who has ever witnessed addiction and obsession: “I can finish if I want…
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In the interview that Errol Morris provides for the new Criterion release of his A Brief History of Time, he confesses that he will never make a film as “romantic” as this profile of theoretical physi…
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Despite the fact that recording studios and record labels have long served to showcase a variety of musical talents, recent music documentaries on such subjects have framed their histories in largely …
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A rousing pre-credits sequence ends with a question that asks who would take the more decisive role in shaping the world: “Who would decide it? The adults or us?” The answer to this question is readil…
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It might seem fitting that, of all forms of documentary filmmaking, the “film essay” is the genre most open to foregrounding the singular, authorial voice of the documentary filmmaker. And in Chris Ma…
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While there exist notable documentaries about beloved musicians like Tom Petty, John Lennon and Philip Glass, most of the effort in nonfiction films about music strives to highlight the underrated and…
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Kathleen Hanna is a punk rock feminist armed with a valley girl patois and brimming with attitude that is equally enthralling, liberating and intimidating. She is credited as a seminal figure in the r…
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In The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Sophie Fiennes’ first cinematic foray into the intellect of Slavoj Žižek (popular culture’s favorite celebrity theorist), he discusses cinema as an instructive tool f…
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Enzo Avitabile is often credited as an Italian saxophone player. But his work is not limited by either a singular cultural heritage or the mastery of a select instrument. The title of Jonathan Demme’s…