Bianca Stigter asserts the presence of lives lost to the Holocaust in Three Minutes - A Lengthening, which interrogates a snippet of footage shot in Poland in 1938 and considers the history
There are more than a few dramatic directors who also excel at making non-fiction films about music. Martin Scorsese is an obvious example, as is Jonathan Demme with his many collaborations with
He emerged on the scene with implausibly good looks, the stuff of matinee idol dreams. He studied in one of the most prestigious acting schools in New York, did plenty of theatre,
For over a decade, Mark Cousins has provided some of the most ambitious filmmaking regarding the art of cinema itself. His epic The Story of Film: An Odyssey was structured as a
When you break it down, 1971 truly was a watershed year for popular music. Coming after the experimentation of the years prior and the massive social and political changes that affected the
Imagine someone has just handed you a plain box containing a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, but with no image or description of what the finished brainteaser should look like. Then a voice, speaking
An interview with Academy Award winning director Freida Lee Mock on her Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary Ruth – Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words and bringing an American icon's story to the
Despite all the odds, Zappa’s work provides a soundtrack that continues to resonate for those with open ears. Its refusal to die remains laudable, and Winter’s Zappa provides just the kind of
Here is a strange and bitter crop. Billie goes against the grain amid the nostalgic music docs of 2020 with a dark, true-crime exploration of a musical icon
-Ariel Nasr’s NFB film The Forbidden Reel shares rare excerpts from classic Afghan cinema and images of life pre-Taliban.