Directed by Roland Legiardi-Laura, Edwin Martinez, Deborah Shaffer & Amy Sultan
Produced by Legiardi-Laura, Martinez, Shaffer, Sultan, Jill & Jim Angelo
Released by Dialogue Pictures
USA. 87min. Not rated
Three poetry teachers—Amy Sultan, Joe Ubiles, and Roland Legiardi-Laura—have led a “radical poetry” workshop they call Power Writing at University Heights High School in the Bronx (on the beautiful Stanford […]
Directed by Alma Har’el
Produced by Har’el & Boaz Yakin
Released by Boaz Yakin Presents
USA. 80 min. Not Rated
Director Alma Har’el takes a rambling tour of the human fauna in a Sonoran Desert ghost town at the southeastern tip of California. Over the course of a year, she uses several different visual techniques in following the flotsam […]
Produced & Directed by Steve Mims & Joe Bailey Jr.
Released by Truly Indie/Yokel
USA. 102 min. Not rated
A courtroom truism is when the facts are against you, argue the law, when the law is against you, argue the facts. But when a documentary about injustice piles on the facts, it still needs to make a cinematic […]
Directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce SinofskyProduced by BerlingerReleased by HBO Documentary FilmsUSA. 121 min. Not rated
For over 18 years, directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky inspired diligent and dedicated support to get three teenagers convicted of the horrible 1993 murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, out of jail, including one on […]
For the last three years, the New York Film Festival has showcased international television mini-series that not only have creative and production values worthy of the big screen, but are not yet available on American television, even though media boundaries these days are so permeable. Dreileben will particularly appeal to fans of dark mysteries for […]
Directed by Vanessa Roth
Produced by Nínive Calegari, Dave Eggers, & Roth
Based on the book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers by Calegari, Eggers & Daniel Moulthrop
Released by First Run Features
USA. 81 min. Not Rated
American Teacher aims to improve the image of those who been seen in the media […]
Directed by Nick Broomfield & Joan ChurchillProduced by Marc Hoeferlin
Released by Freestyle Releasing
UK/USA. 90 min. Not rated
Trolling the frozen streets of Wasilla, Alaska, to explore the roots of its hometown media and political sensation, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! isn’t the hatchet job that her suspicious local allies expected. But documentary directors Nick Broomfield and Joan […]
Directed by Gabor Kalman
Produced by Kalman & Gabor Garami
English & Hungarian with English subtitles
USA/Hungary. 103 min. Not rated
There Was Once … starts out like a teacher’s history lesson about a vanished past, but turns into a detective story as memories collide, old photographs and documents link to living witnesses, and, worse, a nightmare starts to […]
Directed by Margaret Whitton
Produced by Steven Tabakin &Whitton
Written by Roger Towne, based on the novel The Loop by Joe Coomer
Released by Paladin
USA. 98 min. Not Rated
With Jackson Hurst, Rachel Nichols, Linda Emond, Buck Henry, Judith Ivey, Phyllis Somerville, Erik Jensen, Matte Osian, Rocco Sisto & Louis Zorich
A Bird of the Air is a lovely little […]
