No documentary has every been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Could that change in 2020 as docs provide the windows into the world that we're all craving right now?
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Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly (USA, 76 min.) Dir. Cheryl Haines, Co-dir. Gina Leibrecht Does any visual artist in the world right now have as big a profile as Ai Weiwei? The artist,
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Creem: America’s Only Rock n Roll Magazine (USA, 75 min.) Dir. Scott Crawford My goodness, do the offices of CREEM magazine ever look different from the creaky workspace of POV! This raucous doc from Scott
Keep ReadingThe Fight (USA, 96 min.) Dir. Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, Eli Despres After wowing the documentary crowd with their portrait of an errant Weiner, Elyse Steinberg, Josh Kriegman, and Eli Despres chronicle
Keep ReadingDenise Ho: Becoming the Song (USA, 83 min.) Dir. Sue Williams The voice of a dissident sings loud and clear in Denise Ho: Becoming the Song. This upbeat portrait of art and activism
Keep ReadingHelmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (USA, 93 min.) Dir. Gero von Boehm Only a photographer as daring as Helmut Newton could make roast chicken look sexy. The man sure knew how to
Keep ReadingFather Soldier Son (USA, 97 min.) Dir. Leslye Davis, Catrin Einhorn “It’s a lot easier being a platoon sergeant than a single father,” says Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch in Father Soldier Son.
Keep ReadingBloody Nose, Empty Pockets (USA, 98 min.) Dir. Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross I haven’t been to a bar in four months thanks to this ongoing pandemic. However, as much as the
Keep ReadingBread: An Everyday Miracle (Austria, 90 min.) Dir. Harald Friedl One unexpected result of the global coronavirus pandemic is that it transformed Instagrammers everywhere into amateur bakers. Pictures of homemade loaves flooded
Keep ReadingJohn Lewis: Good Trouble (USA, 97 min.) Dir. Dawn Porter “I feel luck and blessed that I am serving in our country,” says Congressman John Lewis in Good Trouble. “But there are forces
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