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, […]
Written & Directed & Produced by Jonathan Furmanski Released by Variance Films USA. 89 min. Not rated The Weird World of Blowfly is the earthy, living history of the roots of rap through the ribald and bemused perspective of a septuagenarian veteran of the music business. With over two dozen raunchy, groundbreaking albums since the […]
Produced & Directed by Heather Courtney Released by International Film Circuit USA. 91 min. Not rated Heather Courtney’s documentary Where Soldiers Come From grew out of a wish to tell a real story about the town she grew up in and to rehabilitate the Middle American, small-town stereotype—a hokey, hickish caricature of Red State racism and Tea Party […]
Directed by Kevin Macdonald Produced by Liza Marshall Released by YouTube/Ridley Scott & Tony Scott/National Geographic Entertainment USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13 Life in a Day is the anecdote to every reality show you’ve ever seen. A year ago, producer Ridley Scott asked YouTube users to film themselves for a single day, July 24th, and […]
Directed by Cindy Meehl Produced by Julie Goldman Released by Sundance Selects USA. 88 min. Not Rated By the time Buck Brannaman’s mother died at the age of 11, his already abusive father ramped up the level of physical and emotional abuse on Buck and his brother. Fortunately for the boys, they were placed with […]
Directed by Janus Metz, based on an idea by Kasper Torsting Produced by Ronnie Fridthjof & Sara Stockmann Released by Lorber Films Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 100 min. Not Rated Once upon a time we could easily separate ourselves from soldiers of war. What they were doing, the acts they committed in the name […]
Written, Directed & Narrated by Patricio Guzmán Produced by Renate Sachse Released by Icarus Films Spanish with English subtitles France/Germany/Chile. 90 min. Not Rated Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. It essentially derives its force from a false remembrance of history. Nostalgia, the longing to return home, is never about a real home, but an […]
Directed by Richard Press Produced by Philip Gefter Released by Zeitgeist Films USA. 84 min. Not Rated Bicycling around Manhattan on his 29th Schwinn—the first 28 were stolen—photographer Bill Cunningham is constantly on the look out for the latest fashion trends. He shrewdly realized some time in the early ’80s that the answer is […]
Edited & Directed by Craig Teper Produced by Jackie Gilbert Bauer and Michael Gordon Released by Phase 4 Films USA. 94 min. Rated PG Vidal Sassoon: The Movie combines the first history of the evanescent art of hairstyling (as both fashion and a business) with the biography of the 20th century’s leading practitioner. There’s […]