All the Empty Rooms, perfectly a strangeness, Armed with Only a Camera; bottom row: The Devil Is Busy, Children No More: "Were and Are Gone" | All photos courtesy of Roadside Attractions
Review of the Oscar nominated short documentaries perfectly a strangeness, The Devil Is Busy, Armed with Only a Camera, Children No More: "Were and Are Gone" and All the Empty Rooms.
Remembering Frederick Wiseman, the director of documentaries including Titicut Follies, National Gallery, Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, and other "Wiseman-esque" films.
Left column: Fiume O Morte! (Icarus Films), Mr. Nobody Against Putin (Frantisek Svatos); Right column: 2000 Meters to Andriivka (Mstyslav Chernov/PBS), The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix), Orwell: 2+2=5 (Elevation Pictures)
How mockumentaries like The Dirties, Punishment Park, and The Clowns play with our suspension of disbelief and the line between fiction and non-fiction.
Brett Ratner's portrait of First Lady Melania Trump offers the laziest kind of propaganda and the nadir of celebrity portraiture.
Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman attend the premiere of Nuisance Bear, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. | Photo by Jason Peters. Courtesy of the Sundance Institute