Linda Ronstadt was every young female singer’s aspirational goddess: if you could nail “You’re No Good” or “Blue Bayou” in the car or the shower, you had practiced a lot.
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Streaming Docs: “Jawline” — The Delusion-Soaked World of Teen Internet Influencers
A Screenager Star is Born?
Film Remembrance: D. A. Pennebaker — Documentarian Extraordinaire
D. A. Pennebaker was inventive, dogged, and had the ability to win people’s trust.
Film Review: “The Raft” — An Illuminating Voyage
What happens when a dubious scientific experiment yields unexpected results?
Film Review: “Hail Satan?” — Fighting Evil
These satanists are far less concerned with organizing decadent ceremonies (though there is a fair bit of that, and it’s thrilling to behold) than they are with exposing corruption and hypocrisy.
Film Feature: STREAMING DOCS — Spring 2019
What are the best new documentaries available on digital platforms? Read on.
Film Interview: Syrian Filmmaker Talal Derki on his Oscar-Nominated Documentary — Separating Delusions from Mythology
Syrian-Kurdish filmmaker Talal Derki on love and hate in his homeland and the “schizophrenia” of being an Oscar nominee.
WATCH CLOSELY: “Horror Noire” — A Canonical Documentary
The film assembles an eclectic and impressive crew of actors, writers, directors and scholars to explore the representation of black characters and culture in (mostly) American horror cinema.
Film Review: Stephen Bannon — “Dharma” Bum
Errol Morris allows Stephen Bannon to indulge in his vision of how he will save America, with Donald Trump as his agent and himself as the genius manipulating events.
Film Review: “Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes” — Media Mogul, Serial Sociopath
This blistering new documentary manages to offer a fairly balanced portrait of a man who, at the end of his life, was widely demonized.