Ethan Coen makes his documentary debut with Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, a somewhat conventional music doc that celebrates the Killer and his prolific output.
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All That Breathes wins the l’Œil d’or at the Cannes Film Festival. The documentary by Shaunak Sen observes a New Delhi bird clinic.
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Brett Morgen's portrait of David Bowie, Moonage Daydream is a stellar music doc that embodies the constellation of the rocker's legacy.
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Mantas Kvedaravičius's Mariupolis 2, presented at the Cannes Film Festival mere weeks after the director's death, is a collection of the rough footage he left behind.
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Cow is an empty attempt to engender an emotional response to some farm animals via nauseating camera work and repetitive, banal shots of bovines.
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As part of the 2021 festival, Cannes dedicated a sidebar to “Cinema for the climate.” This group of mostly non-fiction films tackled various storylines that somehow relate to environmental causes. This, combined
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Haynes’ film is quite simply one of the best of the breed. This is easily a definitive portrait of the band that feels like the Velvets’ last testament.
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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,
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Payal Kapadia's A Night of Knowing Nothing wins the L’Œil d’Or, Cannes' prize for documentary cinema, with her experimental debut feature. Sergei Loznitsa nets a special mention.
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In September 1941, on the banks of the Babi Yar ravine, some 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children were rounded up, shot, and buried in the loose sand. It was the beginning
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