documentary

Film Review: “Algren” – (First-rate writer from the Second City)

September 30, 2021
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Once celebrated, but now largely forgotten, novelist and short story writer Nelson Algren deserves the attention given to him in a wide-ranging documentary.

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Film Review: “Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed” — (Painting by Plunders)

August 23, 2021
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Television artist Bob Ross just wanted to share his love of painting with viewers. His business partners had other ideas.

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Film Review: “Truman & Tennessee: an intimate conversation” — He Said, He Said

June 21, 2021
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Truman & Tennessee is a meticulously researched and edited documentary about two gay men and their differing commitments to art.

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Film Review: “All Light, Everywhere” — Darkness Visible

June 10, 2021
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Do you believe your eyes? Should you?

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Film Review: “F.T.A.” — An Anti-War Gem, Rediscovered

March 6, 2021
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Exuding a guerilla theater, agitprop vibe (with touches here and there of vaudeville and live sketch comedy), F.T.A. is a thrilling expression of pacifism and accountability directed at the military.

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Film Review: Wither the People of Magnitogorsk — “Kombinat”

March 2, 2021
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Without ignoring the terrible-beautiful magnetism of the industrial imagery we love to hate and hate to love, the camera is gradually, gently, drawn across the river and away from the workday, to spend time with these very real humans who serve the machines.

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Film Review: The Soulful Comic Legacy of John Belushi

October 20, 2020
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Belushi is a warts-and-all look at one of comedy’s raging bulls.

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Film Review: “The Ground Between Us” — A Way Forward?

October 4, 2020
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Pitched in this era of hyper partisanship and sharp division, The Ground Between Us is notable because of the weight and balance it gives to the issues at stake.

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Film Remembrance: Death of a Bible “Salesman”

August 26, 2020
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The cinema verite masterpiece is among the first non-fiction theatrical features to chronicle “regular” people going about their everyday lives.

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Film Review: CREEM on Top — The Story of America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine

August 2, 2020
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The documentary is about “the power of the community and how rock and roll, and music in general, is worth fighting for: sometimes that means doing it yourself.”

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