documentary

Film Review: “Ricky on Leacock” — A Definitive Documentary of a Pioneer Filmmaker

April 6, 2013
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A hedonist and humanist, admired filmmaker Ricky Leacock was curious about everyone, including the rich and famous, especially if he could show them sans their celebrity masks.

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Film Interview: Director Jane Gillooly on Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

March 26, 2013
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This unique and carefully constructed impressionistic narrative encourages viewers to free-associate, assess, and imagine the romantic relationship through the filter of their own memories and experiences.

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Book/Film Review: Director Werner Herzog Captures Ferocious Reality

December 16, 2012
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In his book “Ferocious Reality,” Eric Ames offers an insightful, well organized, and readable study of Werner Herzog’s documentary work that explores the director’s earliest films as well as his most recent ones.

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Fuse Film Review: An Awkward But Important “Orchestra of Exiles”

November 25, 2012
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With his biopic “Orchestra of Exiles,” director Josh Aronson has done an at times awkward, but important, cut and paste job of history and biography.

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Film Review: Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down — “Hit So Hard”

September 20, 2012
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Musician Patty Schemel’s slow climb to sobriety and wellness serves as the gripping backbone of the documentary “Hit So Hard,” to the point that it is difficult to believe that someone thumped so severely lived to tell her story.

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Film Review: “Portrait of Wally” — Art As ‘Holocaust Loot’

June 26, 2012
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“Portrait of Wally” makes for a wonderfully engaging documentary about art and postwar intrigue with stakes on both a personal and global scale.

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Film Review: “Low and Clear” — A Lyrical Study of Men and the Fine Art of Fly Fishing

June 14, 2012
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Between the foibles and hopes of middle-age and the vast perfection of nature, the documentary Low and Clear finds its compelling rhythms and its poetry.

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Dance/Movie Review: The Passing Parade — A Film about the Joffrey Ballet

May 10, 2012
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The new documentary, derails, partly because its hagiographic tone encourages elisions that beg important questions.

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Book Feature: A Conversation with Claude Lanzmann about his memoir, “The Patagonian Hare”

March 26, 2012
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Claude Lanzmann is a great raconteur who’s honed his narrative skills as a veteran journalist. His memoir is exuberant and provocative at its best; bombastic and superficial at its worst.

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Film Interview: Helen Whitney — Film as Spiritual Autobiography

February 5, 2012
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Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney: “My films form a kind of spiritual autobiography. I’m always searching for subjects that allow me to ask the big questions: Why are we here? Why must we die? Is this all there is?”

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