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I admit, I just really like Charlie Shackleton as a filmmaker. Like Marge Simpson and her potatoes, I just think his work is neat. Playful, but not obtuse. Shackleton’s films are “arty” in the sense that a casual documentary lover might choose to be turned off by, but they
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“You can’t retire from your life”, says Diane Warren and boy howdy is she not doing that. Even if Warren’s particular branch of music hasn’t quite continued to command the cultural and commercial pull of the first two decades of the career, lord knows she keeps plugging
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Citizen Sleuth is director Chris Kasick’s behind-the-scenes look at a true crime podcast in real time. That might sound like—and I thought it several times in its front half, too—it’s little more than a commercial for the Mile Marker 181 show hosted by Emily Nestor. But
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This is not a review of The Yogurt Shop Murders, the four-part documentary series about an infamous Texas murder where people were sent to prison based on false confessions. It’s not a review of that, no, but I found it kind of curious that both it and Deborah S.
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The words “Cutting Through Rocks” is such an evocative title for a documentary. It conjures up so many potential ideas as to what it is going to be about. That co-directors Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni choose to open their debut feature with the actual cutting of actual rocks almost
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I co-host and co-produce a radio show here in Melbourne called Strictly Soundtracks. As you may gather by the name, we discuss the music from film and television. It’s on Joy 94.9 if you care to listen, which you obviously should! On a recent Halloween episode, I put
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How does somebody come back from grief when it is their job to be funny? Even somebody like Marc Maron who’s professional (and personal) persona is that of what was maybe once known as a curmudgeon. A grouch with a sense of humour. A bit of a cynic about
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Taking a Depeche Mode superfan to IMAX that they had never been to before (and a real IMAX at that) to see a Depeche Mode concert documentary is a real treat that I recommend to others. You can replace Depeche Mode if you’d like. Although in the case of
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It’s curious to watch a film like Prime Minister in the very immediate shadow of this week’s American elections. Particularly so those in New York City, where a socially and politically progressive thirtysomething candidate who isn’t a cis white male turned a relatively quick-launch campaign into a
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Heidi Levitt is a familiar name in the credits of Hollywood productions, although you may not have noticed. She’s worked as a casting director on films by Oliver Stone, Wayne Wang, Adrian Lyne, Wim Wenders and Michael Bay, casting American presidents, groundbreaking ensembles, and big budget action spectacles as
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With River of Grass, the elegiac mood piece about the Floridian Everglades, director Sasha Wortzel does something that I really love to see in documentaries. This is in essence a nature documentary, but it’s not just concerned with that one facet of the area or of non-fiction filmmaking. Alongside
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I don’t ever really expect to watch too many films that have a direct relevance to what I do for a living five days a week. I mean, there’s certainly newsworthy elements to my day job, but in the grand scheme of things, at least here in Victoria,