Directed by Greg Vander Veer Released by First Run Features USA. 80 min. Not rated It may be true that behind every great artist, there’s a great arts administrator. When it comes to modern dance, one woman stood behind countless greats of the 20th century, and this documentary gives her due credit. Martha Hill was […]
Produced & Directed by Andew Napier Released by Oscillosope Laboratories USA. 82 min. Not rated Mad as Hell profiles liberal talk show host Cenk Uygur, whose online news show, The Young Turks, seeks to shake up news coverage and reveal the corrupt business of politics. No one is exempt from Uygur’s glaring gaze: not George […]
Written, Produced, and Directed by Brian Knappenberger Released by Film Buff/ Participant Media USA. 104 min. Not rated What happens when an idealistic computer genius tries to hack the most obstinate system of all, American corporate capitalism? By turns touching and infuriating, the documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz recounts the short […]
What went into the creation of this list? Mostly strong first impressions, followed by second (or third or fourth opinions) and a second viewing, confirming that there is some “there” there. Because this compilation is made right at the end of the year, it’s a judgment of its time made under at least condition since […]
Produced and Directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White Released by HBO Documentary Films USA. 112 min. Not rated In comparison to some of the acute, trenchant social issues currently informing U.S. political discourse—racial injustice, police brutality, biased judicial systems, third-wave feminism—the dialogue concerning same-sex marriage may now seem, to some, to be a bit […]
Directed by Edet Belzberg Produced by Belzberg, Amelia Green-Dove and Kerry Propper Based on A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power Released by Music Box Films English and Zaghawa, Spanish, French with English subtitles USA. 121 min. Not rated Just weeks before Watchers Of the Sky opened in theaters, […]
Directed by Jeremy Xido Produced by Xido, Joseph Castelo Portuguese, with English subtitles Released by the Vladar Company USA/Angola. 84 min. Rare is the region with no sound of its own. For the Dominican Republic: merengue and bachata. For Lebanon: dabke. For Angola: death metal? In Jeremy Xido’s docu—dare I say-rock-you—mentary Death Metal Angola, we […]
Written, Produced, and Directed by Gabe Polsky Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA/Russia. 85 min. Rated PG A captivating look at one of the great successes of the Soviet experiment, Red Army uncovers how the Soviet Union’s ice hockey team dominated world competition to an unprecedented extent in the 1970s and ‘80s. It featured a […]
Edited, Written, and Directed and edited by Marshall Curry Produced by Curry, Mr. Matthew VanDyke and Elizabeth Martin Released by the Orchard USA. 82 min. Not rated Most of us have moments when we are not comfortable in our own skin and not sure of who we are. Most of us might switch jobs or […]