Barbara Kopple

Film Preview: Documentary Days — GlobeDocs and Beyond

October 20, 2026
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GlobeDocs and a standout screening at the Somerville Theatre offer an inviting week of documentaries about mortality, justice, community, and a divided nation.

Film Festival Reviews: Docs at TIFF — Labor, Harlem Memory, and Iranian Bodies Under Pressure

October 2, 2026
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At TIFF, Barbara Kopple follows exploited delivery workers, William Greaves revives the Harlem Renaissance, and Iranian filmmakers find private lives shadowed by surveillance, war, and repression, yet also beautified in some cases.

Film Review: “Miss Sharon Jones!” — Soulful Inspiration

August 29, 2016
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If this movie boosts Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings into well-paid entertainers with a major record deal, I salute filmmaker Barbara Kopple.

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