Showing posts with label documentary film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documentary film. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Music hath charms... in Sam Bathrick's new prison documentary, 16 BARS

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We've seen  theatre in prison   previously -- including  Shakespeare  behind bars, and once even via the Taviani brothers  -- as an ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Latasters' MISS KIET'S CHILDREN: kids on film in a fine and helpful Netherlands school

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The earlier documentary of which the new one, MISS KIET'S CHILDREN , should most remind you is probably that fine French kids-in-sch...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Frederick Wiseman's documentary IN JACKSON HEIGHTS opens at New York City's Film Forum

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My cousin Paula Carroll, a relatively wise-in-the-ways-of-the-world woman, used to say (and undoubtedly still does) that if you know a p...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Catching up with Steven Soderbergh's Spalding Gray film, AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE

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This coming January will mark the tenth year since the death of Spalding Gray . Already? This hardly seems possible. Gray, such a primary...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Cindy Kleine's ANDRÉ GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER opens at Film Forum

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Cindy Kleine is no Louis Malle . And  ANDRÉ GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER is no My Dinner With André , though the reference to that ...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

DocuWeeks hosts Everardo González's dry & dusty Mexican documentary, DROUGHT

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DROUGHT -- the original title of which is Cuates de Australia , the communal land in northern Mexico going by that name -- is a quietly ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Julia Haslett's oddball but not uninteresting AN ENCOUNTER WITH SIMONE WEIL

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Who was Simone Weil ? You, as had I, may have heard of her off and on over the years: a Jewish writer/philosopher who was ascetic/ religiou...