Pauline Kael, Teddy Pendergrass, & Co. | DOC NYC 2018
By Kent Turner November 9, 2018

Pauline Kael, rock ‘n’ rollers, Jessica Chastain, and Teddy Pendergrass all are onscreen at this year’s documentary film festival.
Pauline Kael, rock ‘n’ rollers, Jessica Chastain, and Teddy Pendergrass all are onscreen at this year’s documentary film festival.
Morgan Neville’s documentary acts as the perfect precursor to Orson Welles’s infamous, long in the making film, The Other Side of Wind.
A documentary that is an act of gratitude and a meditation on the Swedish director’s films.
In this sincere, engrossing documentary, director Sandi Tan looks back at a quirky indie film she helped make that captured a mostly bygone Singapore—and that suddenly vanished.
How does a president who lies about his past, distorts his country’s history into victimhood, promotes nationalism, and inflames anti-Semitism win an election?
The film is about spectacle, as ever-larger amounts of money get thrown at objects that increasingly blur the line between art and—something else.
As a depiction of how a family overcomes a most unimaginable crisis, this documentary is triumphant. As a call for criminal justice reform, it is powerful and convincing.
Mental manipulations are carried out in real time on a young athlete in this bold documentary.
A comprehensive documentary about an artist who pushed the limits of photography.