David D'Arcy
By David D’Arcy At the Tribeca Film Festival this year, documentaries led the way as usual. A Revolution on Canvas (Untitled Nicky Nodjoumi), directed by Till Schauder and Sara Nodjoumi, is an ambitious look at one family’s experience of the Iranian dynastic dictatorship and its successor, the Iranian Islamic revolution. The film is the story…
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The Museum of the Revolution resonates with other powerful documentaries that feel like fairy tales set in a dangerous world.
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The first American release of a 1961 Italian comic treasure that spoofs corruption in postwar Italy.
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Her hope for Israel today, Zoya Cherkassky told me, is the evolution of a multi-racial society that she hopes will ensure its survival.
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The film’s depictions of race-based massacres are sure to make Germans uncomfortable — as preludes to the Shoah.
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This year’s Berlin International Film Festival launched a couple of films aimed at a mass audience. The results were mixed.
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Veteran director Nicolas Philibert’s inspiring documentary about the humane treatment of the mentally ill touched the Berlin jurors in what was a generally disappointing competition.
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Kim’s Video is quixotic in a nutty way — in an old Indie style — that is more refreshing than it is nostalgic.
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Two films look at the hardships and realities of rural life, past and present, at the New York Film Festival.
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Norman Rockwell was troubled about race relations in American society, and he let his public know that..
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