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Apollo 11

The French Is a Cinéma Vérité Grand Slam

by Pat Mullen
August 5, 2022
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William Klein's 1982 documentary The French screens in a reissued restoration and offers a masterful work of vérité filmmaking.

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Apollo 11: Quarantine Review – The Original Physical Distancers

by Pat Mullen
February 19, 2021
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Apollo 11: Quarantine is a worthy follow-up to Todd Douglas Miller's masterful archival doc.

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You Had to Be There

by Daniel Glassman
March 17, 2020
Essays

Film is always late. The sheer cost, technical expertise and logistical coordination needed to make a film, at least along the lines of the North American industrial model, are prohibitive to the

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And the Oscar Goes to…

by Pat Mullen Marc Glassman
February 6, 2020
Features

What will and should win on Oscar night? The POV team breaks down their picks and predictions between American Factory, The Cave, The Edge of Democracy, For Sama, and Honeyland.

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The Best International Documentaries of 2019

by Pat Mullen
December 26, 2019
Features/Lists

POV's picks for the best international docs of 2019 include One Child Nation, American Factory, For Sama, Honeyland, Apollo 11, Desert One, Rolling Thunder Revue, and more!

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Martin Scorsese’s ‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ is the ‘Seinfeld’ of Documentaries

by Pat Mullen
June 11, 2019
Reviews

If Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue was about nothing, then Martin Scorsese has made the Seinfeld of documentaries by chronicling it. Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese is at

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Talking About ‘Apollo 11’

by Jason Gorber
March 8, 2019
Interviews

Todd Douglas Miller discusses his epic archival restoration Apollo 11 and talks about covering the moon landing in a Woodstock -style odyssey that provides an intimate glimpse at this historic event from

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‘Apollo 11’ a Giant Leap for Archival

by Pat Mullen
March 1, 2019
Reviews

Apollo 11 successfully completes a Herculean task in telling the story of the moon landing from all-angles using pre-existing coverage. It’s a marvel of technical accomplishment, but more than that, it’s a dynamic

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From Aliens to AOC, Sundance Docs Brought Down the House

by Jason Gorber
February 8, 2019
Festivals/Sundance

Sundance remains the preeminent birthplace for the year’s great works of non-fiction, and more than a few reviewed below will almost certainly be declared the finest works of documentary for 2019.

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