documentary review
There was a moment around midway through Iván Castiñeiras’ Gods of Stone (Deuses de pedra) film where I thought to myself, ‘You can really tell this was shot over 15 years’. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, although I think in the case of this 80-minute film, it does
documentary review
When I commented on Bill Morrison’s shoulda-been-Oscar-winning short film Incident from last year, I said that I was “surprised more filmmakers don’t use this, I guess, 24-style editing in documentary.” I was referring to the way single sequences unfold across multiple points of view to tell a story
documentary review
Movies about movies. Groundbreaking. Movies about the "psychology of film editing"? Okay, that's a bit different. I have enjoyed the films of Chad Freidrichs well enough; The Pruitt-Igoe Myth and The Experimental City have each covered two very different and historically curious moments of the 20th
documentary review
It’s easy to say that Asif Kapadia’s documentaries have been some of the most acclaimed of the last 15 or so years. His early collage-style non-fictions were critical and cultural successes, with Senna and in particular Amy (winning an Academy Award despite my own misgivings) proving to be
documentary review
Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome. As introductory lay-ups go, those famous lyrics from Bob Fosse’s Cabaret were too hard to refuse for me. It’s to the credit of director Bruce David Klein’s credit that he doesn’t always (does not always) succumb to such easy biographic impulses in Liza: