Directed by Gabriela Cowperwaithe Produced by Manuel V. Oteyza & Cowperwaithe Written by Cowperwaithe & Eli Despres Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 83 min. Rated PG-13 Blackfish is most engrossing when it offers an alarming CSI-type forensic analysis into the 2010 death of whale trainer Dawn Brancheau at SeaWorld Orlando, by tracing the background of […]
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer Produced by Signe Byrge Sorensen, Joram ten Brink, Anne Köhncke, Michael Uwemedimo, Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn & Anonymous Released by Drafthouse Films Denmark/Norway/UK/Sweden/Finland. 122 min. Not rated You may or may not remember a little movie from 1980 called Cannibal Holocaust about the discovery of film shot by a documentary team in […]
Written & Directed by Eliav Lilti Produced by Arik Bernstein Released by Alma Films Hebrew with English subtitles Israel. 93 min. Not rated Like diaries and letters in the old days, home movies are more and more being mined for their historical and sociological significance. The amateur footage edited together in Israel: A Home […]
Produced & Directed by Jamie Kastner Released by Screen Media Canada. 84 min. Not rated Were such hits as “Boogie Wonderland,” “Boogie Fever,” or “Boogie Oogie Oogie” songs of political protest? In his amicable and gossipy overview of 1970’s dance music, director Jamie Kastner poses that question to powerhouse singer Martha Walsh, forever known as […]
Directed by Drew DeNicola Co-directed by Olivia Mori Produced by Mori & Danielle McCarthy Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 113 min. Rated PG-13 Director Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori’s documentary rediscovers the Memphis band whose three albums all feature in Rolling Stone’s top 500, even though commercial success eluded them. It’s a story of frustrated ambition, […]
Directed by Richard Rowley Produced by Anthony Arnove, Brenda Coughlin & Jeremy Scahill Written by Scahill & David Riker, in companion with Scahill’s book Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield Released by Sundance Selects USA. 87 min. Not rated Dirty Wars connects how the celebrated successes and piecemeal scandals about the global war on […]
Narrated, Written & Directed by Matthew Cooke Produced by Adrian Grenier & Bert Marcus Released by Tribeca Film USA. 96 min. Not Rated In memorable scenes from the TV series The Wire, an ambitious CFO to a Baltimore drug kingpin ran business seminars for his middle-management dealers to explain how to maximize the criminal organization’s […]
Directed by Morgan Neville Produced by Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers Released by Radius-TWC USA. 90 min. Rated PG-13 With Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, Tata Vega, Claudia Lennear, Gloria Jones, Lynn Maybry, Cindy Mizelle, Susaye Greene, Jo Lawry, The Waters Family, Rose Stone, Janice Pendarvis, and Mable John The first 45 […]
Directed by Mark Covino & Jeff Howlett Produced by Covino & Howlett, Scott Mosier, Matthew Perniciaro, Kevin Mann & Jerry Ferrara Released by Drafthouse Films USA. 96 min. Not rated The road to rock ‘n’ roll fame is littered with failed bands, but the tale of A Band Called Death grabs attention for its unusual […]