As directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney, The Real Charlie Chaplin attempts a delicate dance, quite ambitiously trying to understand both Chaplin the g...
As Jackie and Don Seiden unintentionally describe themselves by way of an impromptu thought experiment: he's the warm-hearted crocodile and she the intelligent...
The new 4K restoration of Dennis Hopper’s mad-wheeling 1980 feature Out of the Blue opens with text detailing the fascinating behind-the-scenes turmoil that le...
Despite any prescience on behalf of its subject matter, I’m sure even the playwright himself, Jonathan Larson, would have looked back on his big-budget, s...
You can't avoid questions of race when discussing a situation such as that at the center of Emily Kuester and Brad Lichtenstein's documentary Messwood. The tit...
I hadn't seen any of Adrienne Shelly's work at the time of her death, but you couldn't follow the film world in 2006 without hearing about what happened. News ...
There are multiple moments during Oasis Knebworth 1996, the hugely entertaining documentary revisiting the Britpop legends’ most gargantuan concert, when prese...
A rare and elusive sense of myth is captured in The Tale of King Crab, a story of a 19th-century vagabond who falls in love with the daughter of a local farmer...
Chris Chan Lee’s third feature Silent River has all the materials for a great noir. From an intriguing premise about a man on a run to the hallucinogenic visua...
It begins with a press conference wherein Michael Sandridge, Tom Viviano, and Mike Foreman—all survivors of abuse—discuss how the Catholic Church in Kansas all...
