SHAME on these filmmakers for making a film like this, full of misinformation and disinformation, to intentionally depress audiences, and make them think there are no alternatives.
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Tiger King is the perfect series for our times. A show about narcissists with no sense of self-awareness, rampant cruelty masquerading as morality and law and order, all soaking in a philosophy
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What are the stories being told about the Middle East, how are they being told, and does it matter who is documenting them?
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Unfinished films, lost masterpieces, and stillborn projects assume new lives in documentary form. How The Other Side of the Wind, Shirkers, and Dune endure as non-fiction.
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When absence becomes presence, documentaries turn into art. How films like The Act of Killing and Bisbee '17 capture the void.
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Every once in a while, people appear on the political stage with compelling personal narratives and charisma to spare. They’re dedicated and passionate and demonstrate through their actions that they can persevere
Keep ReadingMarcus Lindeen’s latest documentary revisits a 1970s radical social experiment by way of a creative and revelatory re-enactment involving the surviving research participants. For 101 days in the summer of 1973, ten volunteer subjects
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You see him everywhere, a large sneering bully of a man. He’s the Donald, the #potus—really, is that so much quicker to say than President?—the orange skinned asshole with the trophy wife
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Filmmaker Rudi Dolezal recalls his work with Freddie Mercury and weighs in on Rami Malek's portrayal of the rock icon in Bohemian Rhapsody
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