Tommy Oliver's incendiary and deeply personal 40 Years a Prisoner chronicles systemic racism, the revolutionary group MOVE, and a family’s search for justice.
On viewing coronavirus docs amid a return to film festivals: Venetian Molecules, Sportin’ Life, In This Moment, and iSola bring stories of the coronavirus pandemic to the Venice Film Festival.
Pete Souza, the protagonist of The Way I See It, surely practiced his craft that way for 40 years. The White House photographer for Ronald Reagan in the Eighties and Barack Obama during his entire eight years as President, he learned how to be “the guy who disappears” while taking shots of each President during
The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel is a must-see if only to remind us to avoid the empty messages of hope provided by slick corporate entities.
Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer look to the stars in Fireball, the duo's latest collaboration after Into the Inferno and Encounters at the End of the World.
King and Hoover are long gone now. So are the Sixties. But Pollard’s lucidly intelligent MLK/FBI shows what happened then: a fatal situation in which a Black man confronted the white establishment.
One can’t help but be fascinated by Lee’s DJs and their artistry. While the film remains focused on the struggles that these women have endured, there is plenty of room left to enjoy fairly lengthy samples of their musical accomplishments.
76 Days is a classic cinema verité doc, which effectively depicts what happened at hospitals in Wuhan, China from February to April in the midst of the pandemic. Plunging us directly into the action, we see a nurse screaming in agony.
All In: The Fight for Democracy is a brilliant piece of advocacy cinema. If you aren’t outraged before you see this doc, you certainly will be when it’s finished.
"You don't talk about the things that are uncomfortable and that's a very traditional thing among Chinese families and East Asian families. My films The Apology and Sing Me a Lullaby feed into one another," says Hsiung.