For the last three years, the New York Film Festival has showcased international television mini-series that not only have creative and production values worthy of the big screen, but are not yet available on American television, even though media boundaries these days are so permeable. Dreileben will particularly appeal to fans of dark mysteries for […]
Directed by Vanessa Roth Produced by Nínive Calegari, Dave Eggers, & Roth Based on the book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America’s Teachers by Calegari, Eggers & Daniel Moulthrop Released by First Run Features USA. 81 min. Not Rated American Teacher aims to improve the image of those who […]
Directed by Nick Broomfield & Joan ChurchillProduced by Marc Hoeferlin Released by Freestyle Releasing UK/USA. 90 min. Not rated Trolling the frozen streets of Wasilla, Alaska, to explore the roots of its hometown media and political sensation, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! isn’t the hatchet job that her suspicious local allies expected. But documentary directors Nick […]
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 […]