Iraq war disaster: Iraq in Fragments. Below is an open letter (dated March 2) that producer John Sinno sent to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Sinno co-produced…
-
Marjoe: Evangelical Christian con men exposed in Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith Oscar-Winning documentary with future Earthquake actor Marjoe Gortner.
-
Iraq War & censorship among topics of documentaries still in the running for the Academy Awards. Image: Iraq in Fragments. Blind mountain climbers, female African judges, Israel’s withdrawal from the…
-
James Cameron’s Aliens was the 1986 sequel to the infinitely superior 1979 classic example of science fiction-cum-horror, Alien, the tale of a Creature from Out There whose favorite pastime is…
-
Editor and documentary filmmaker Helen van Dongen died at age 97 on Sept. 28. As an editor, van Dongen worked with the likes of Joris Ivens and Robert Flaherty, and…
-
Frank Sinatra in ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’: Groundbreaking drug addiction drama. Although hardly one of Otto Preminger’s better films, The Man with the Golden Arm is worth a…
-
‘The Golden Age of Norman Corwin’ Press Release: Beverly Hills, CA A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin, which won the 2005 Academy Award® for Documentary Short…
-
Chávez Ravine evictions and controversial autism shorts + Viola Liuzzo - the US Civil Rights Movement’s Only White Woman Martyr get LA screenings.
-
Polar bears star in White Wilderness. Oscar-winning documentaries ‘White Wilderness’ & ‘Albert Schweitzer’ + ‘Ama Girls’ Academy screening New 35mm prints of the Academy Award-winning documentaries Albert Schweitzer, Ama Girls,…
-
Fuck has Tera Patrick, Pat Boone and others debating whether U.S. freedom of speech protections should also be applied to ‘offensive’ language.
-
Submission: Part 1 controversies continue: Clip from Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s anti-Islam short film to be broadcast on Italian television.
-
Creationist fanatics are going after IMAX theaters’ nature documentaries. Why? Anti-science Christians are enraged by evolution being presented as an empirical fact.
-
Documentary or docudrama? Is it possible to pinpoint the line separating fiction from one recent Oscar winner’s extensive use of reenactments?
-
Jehane Noujaim’s Al Jazeera documentary Control Room has sparked outrage at the first edition of the Dubai Film Festival.
-
Critics’ favorites: A crowd-pleasing Wine Country road movie and a polemical political documentary are the top selections this awards season, while Imelda Staunton is the Best Actress fave.
-
The low-key documentary Calling Hedy Lamarr offers a glimpse into the phone habits of one of Hollywood’s most glamorous stars.
-
Potential Oscar contenders include weeping camel, Howard Zinn and slain Civil Rights activist. But polemical Iraq War features have been thoroughly bypassed.
-
George W. Bush - one of the orchestrators of the Iraq War and a key figure in Michael Moore’s documentary blockbuster Fahrenheit 9/11 has been chosen as the year’s scariest movie villain.
-
Co-director David O. Russell’s Iraq War documentary Soldiers Pay has landed U.S. distribution despite Warner Bros.’ refusal to release it during a presidential election year.
-
Toronto Film Festival controversies: Contentious topics include a documentary about the military service of U.S. presidential contender John Kerry and the horrific abuse of a cat.
-
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) movie review: Michael Moore documentary incinerates the warmongering George W. Bush White House and members of the eagerly complicit American media.
Bush documentary The World According to Bush. George W. Bush documentary producers’ lawsuit vs. Google: ‘The World According to Bush’ The French movie production company Flach Film has taken legal…
The Road to Guantanamo. In Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross’ docudrama The Road to Guantanamo, you won’t find the trio Bing Crosby-Bob Hope-Dorothy Lamour making merry with the natives of…
Among the 8 controversies linked to Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 are a Disney battle and mysterious late-night Saudi flights.
El Chupacabra terrifies Big Pharma: How polemical filmmaker Michael Moore has become an urban legend within the American pharmaceutical industry.
Shot during the making of The Passion of the Christ, The Big Question asks Mel Gibson, Jim Caviezel and others their views about god.
Four news DVDs focus on Oscar-winning director George Stevens: A tribute to British colonialism; an immigration family drama; and two documentaries, one of which features rare WWII color footage.