I firmly believe that we’ll know the representation gap in American entertainment will have been closed not when the prestige dramas featuring minorities are ge...
Kirsten Johnson has been a cinematographer and / or camera operator on documentary films for 20 years. This has taken her all over the world and led her to meet...
Will Allen spent over 20 years inside a cult and was filming things the entire time. Now he wants to tell his story. It’s a good one, filled with drama and craz...
Little Men could have been so much more if its perspective leaned towards the opposite direction. Why a story dealing heavily with gentrification and unfair lea...
Actors put themselves in others’ skins -- or they put others’ heads inside their own. Television journalists adopt a persona and try to deliver important inform...
Performance and recreation have a greater presence in documentaries at this year’s Sundance than in many past. Pieter-Jan De Pue's The Land of the Enlightened, ...
Notes on Blindness is the kind of documentary that aims to be formally distinct -- something I wish was standard for the art. The film does more than simply tel...
Whit Stillman and Jane Austen are a match as well-made as any in one of Austen’s books. And Austen’s novella, Lady Susan -- probably her least-appreciated piece...
A Flag Without a Country comes across less as a documentary than a based-on-a-true-story movie in which everyone plays themselves. Indeed, protagonists Nariman ...
The latest documentary to tackle teen bullying and consequential suicide, Audrie & Daisy approaches its subject specifically through the lens of rape cultur...
