Jon Blair and Miep Gies: Anne Frank Remembered documentary. One film historian friend once (half-)jokingly suggested that the Academy should have a special Oscar category for Holocaust documentaries, as those…
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The two 1993 Oscar-winning documentaries, Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich’s short Defending Our Lives and Susan Raymond’s feature I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School, will be…
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A series of premieres of new European documentaries is currently being presented at the American Cinematheque‘s Aero Theater in Santa Monica. The series, which began last night, runs until Wednesday,…
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Saving Marriage. Directed by John Henning and Mike Roth, Saving Marriage presents the fight to rescue that much revered – and much disregarded, disrespected, ridiculed – institution that has been…
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A Time for Burning: Monday Nights with Oscar A Time for Burning, a 1967 Oscar-nominated documentary about the interactions between two segregated churches in Omaha, Nebraska, during the height of…
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Prelude to War. War Documentaries: Prelude to War Oscar statuette – the 1958 duplicate – is returned to the U.S. Army An Oscar statuette earned by Frank Capra’s 1942 documentary…
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Babel movie with Brad Pitt. ‘Babel’ movie: Alejandro González Iñárritu Best Picture Oscar nominee revisited The 2006 Best Picture nominee Babel is the next feature in the Academy of Motion…
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America the Beautiful (2007) movie review: Overextended documentary tackles the reasons for American women’s obsession with physical beauty.
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The Betrayal Ellen Kuras documentary. Directed by Ellen Kuras, with the assistance of her film’s main subject, Thavisouk Phrasavath (who shares co-director credit), The Betrayal: Nerakhoon follows a family of…
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Chris & Don. A Love Story: Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. Tina Mascara and Guido Santi’s Chris & Don. A Love Story opened today in New York City and will…
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Keith Richards, Variety editor Peter Bart, Martin Scorsese, CEO of Paramount Pictures Brad Grey, and Mick Jagger at the Daily Variety Gotham‘s 10th Anniversary party on March 30 at Michael’s…
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Strange Culture: Tilda Swinton and Thomas Jay Ryan as Steve Kurtz. In Strange Culture, which was released on DVD this past March 25, filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson tackles the bizarre case…
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Banned gay movies in Australia & Singapore And you thought that Australia is a democracy, where adults are allowed to make their own choices regarding the movies (or books?) they…
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“The Art of Sound,” an evening celebrating the 2007 Sound Editing and Sound Mixing Oscar nominees and winners, will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…
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VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE: Part I What was it like to make a movie in Kosovo, one of the world’s most volatile areas? LB: Kosovo used to be extremely volatile;…
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View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo filmmakers John Ealer and Laura Bialis. Directed by John Ealer and Laura Bialis (above), View from the Bridge: Stories from Kosovo, described on…
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Deep blue sea explored in Howard Hall’s documentary Deep Sea 3D. Deep Sea 3D, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, and Roving Mars will be screened as part of the…
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Young at Heart. The Oscar-winning documentaries Young at Heart, The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, and You Don’t Have to Die will screen on…
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The Academy Award-winning documentaries The Stone Carvers (above) and The Times of Harvey Milk will be screened on Monday, October 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy of Motion Picture…
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Jesus Camp documentary. Stanley Nelson’s Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple and Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Jesus Camp (above) will be screened as part of the Academy…
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“The Art of the Motion Picture Illustrator: William B. Major, Harold Michelson and Tyrus Wong,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest exhibition, opens on Friday, Sept. 28,…
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‘Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist’ & ‘Best Boy’: Oscar Documentaries + Canadian Women in Animation
Next in “Oscar’s Docs, Part Three: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1977–1988,” The Flight of the Gossamer Condor, Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, and Best Boy will be screened on Monday,…
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HIV art & a rare form of amnesia are two of the topics of the Oscar-nomianted documentaries to be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In…
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The Rubby Slipper Mystery: The Wizard of Oz Dorothy Missing shiny shoes Via the ABC News blog The Blotter: Anna Schecter reports that the case of the missing ruby slippers…
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Albert Maysles, 80, will be the featured guest at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ John Huston Lecture on Documentary Film on Thursday, April 12, at…
The two 1992 Oscar-winning documentaries, Barbara Trent’s feature The Panama Deception and Gerardine Wurzburg’s short Educating Peter, will be screened as part of “Oscar’s Docs, Part Four: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries…
Baghdad High (2007) Movie Review: Documentary focuses on four Iraqi high-school students who use their cameras to show the world who they are.
Refusenik, a documentary directed by Laura Bialis, chronicles the thirty-year grassroots movement to free Soviet Jews. (Read Ella Taylor’s positive – if sobering – review in The Village Voice.) Refusenik…
Bugs Bunny: Tex Avery and Michael Maltese collaborations. Looney Tunes collaborators Tex Avery and Michael Maltese will be honored in a double centennial tribute by the Academy of Motion Picture…
Martin Luther King Jr. documentary rare screening + Lucía Cedrón Argentinean political thriller Lamb of God to open Rotterdam Film Festival.
Darryl Hunt vs. the racist U.S. justice system: The Trials of Darryl Hunt. The Trials of Darryl Hunt & Revolving Doors: Contemporary Documentaries Marilyn Braverman’s short subject A Revolving Door…
‘Saturday Night Fever’ movie: John Travolta disco dances at Academy Theater A newly struck print of the John Badham-directed 1977 John Travolta movie Saturday Night Fever, a mix of social…