documentary
Julia Loktev’s six-hour portrait of exiled TV Rain journalists headlined a festival program along with a tale set in Andrey Zvyagintsev’s corrupt provincial Russia and Emmanuel Marre’s understated study of collaboration under Nazi occupation.
Nathan Fielder’s “You Can See Everything” turns the Theranos saga into a revelatory, Philip K. Dickian inquiry into artifice, identity, and truth.
Tim Jackson’s documentary takes a compelling look at Mason Daring & Jeanie Stahl’s drama-free half-century.
A new documentary bares (almost) all about stripper-actress Tura Satana.
A charming and deeply entertaining documentary about Marcella Hazan and her transformation into a world-famous cookbook author and influencer.
The new bio-doc about producer-musician Brian Eno looks at the artist’s life and his creative process in a deliberately provocative new format.
“Four Daughters” calls attention to the complex and admittedly slippery nature of nonfiction filmmaking.
Two PBS documentaries paint a grim picture of the American soul.
The disconnect between the Amsterdam of the past that is revisited and the scenes of life in the city today dramatize the fragility of memory and its erosion.
Jazz Commentary: The Enduring Enigma of Chet Baker
I take a look back at the compelling documentary “Let’s Get Lost” because of the recently released “Chet Baker Performs and Sings: Swimming by Moonlight”, 15 unreleased studio recordings made by the trumpeter.
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