Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.“If we can appreciate documentaries for their dramatic qualities,” says the narrator i…
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.Descendant of Chris Marker, Santiago Álvarez and Woody Guthrie, Travis Wilkerson’s An …
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.Before Grizzly Man gave him a legitimate documentary hit, before his own voice became …
Filmmaker Robert Greene considers what makes this Oscar-nominated documentary an "indispensable masterpiece."
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.Last week, Peter Wintonick died of liver cancer at the age of 60, and there have been …
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.There was a moment when I first saw the second film in Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilog…
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.When pioneering nonfiction filmmaker/thinker John Grierson reviewed his friend Robert …
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.That the explicit target of Harun Farocki’s critique in How To Live in the German Fede…
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.Patricio Guzmán’s The Battle of Chile is not exactly an overlooked film, appearing oft…
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.Peter Watkins’ Edvard Munch is not a documentary, but it is one of the greatest, most …
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction. This week in New York, British nonfiction genius/essayist/showman Adam Curtis is d…
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction. With movies like Leviathan, um, making waves these days, it’s become fashionable t…
Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction. Two weeks ago, Gianfranco Rosi won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice…
Every week or so, filmmaker/writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.
Every week or so, filmmaker/writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.Chantal Akerman’s News From Home is hardly ever called a documentary, but it remains one o…