Film-Forward

Documentary

Pauline Kael, Teddy Pendergrass, & Co. | DOC NYC 2018

Pauline Kael, rock ‘n’ rollers, Jessica Chastain, and Teddy Pendergrass all are onscreen at this year’s documentary film festival.

They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead

Morgan Neville’s documentary acts as the perfect precursor to Orson Welles’s infamous, long in the making film, The Other Side of Wind.

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

A documentary that is an act of gratitude and a meditation on the Swedish director’s films.

Shirkers

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.

The Waldheim Waltz

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 Price of Everything

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.

The Sentence

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.

Over the Limit

Mental manipulations are carried out in real time on a young athlete in this bold documentary.

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable

A comprehensive documentary about an artist who pushed the limits of photography.