The scream that comes from the caves. He who listens, feels and sings. A language without words. The one that comes out from the bowels. The echo of our ancestors.But since when is the irrintzi among us? Does it still exist in the 21st century? These and many other questions are what the documentary Erraiak […]
Short Film: ERRAIAK (BOWELS). THE ECHO OF THE ANCESTORS, 31min., Spain
PBS will air the four-part documentary series that dives into what each subject’s ancestors did during a time of global upheaval.
‘My Grandparents’ War’: Helena Bonham Carter and Mark Rylance Learn Their Family’s WW II Stories
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. It’s absolutely horrifying to think that a doctor who we trust with our health and body can defraud us one way or another. Especially couples who are so eager to have a child, that they would do anything to hold one in their arms. But what happens if the […]
Sundance 2021: “Seeds of Deceit”
A confronting examination of the modern social media/internet obsessed society we currently find ourselves in with insights and revelations from some of the top tech-savvy minds in the world. “How do you wake […]
Film Review – The Social Dilemma (2020)
Mani Mirsadeghi is a marine biologist and documentary filmmaker who has made several films related to wildlife and environmental issues since 1993. He has traveled extensively, from Antarctica to the North Pole, has made documentaries from the underwater world of the Oman Sea to the wildlife of Africa and Siberia. His goal is to inspire […]
Director Biography – Mani Mirsadeghi (IRAN’S WILD SIDE)
Despite a workforce in quarantine, Canada planted almost 700 million trees in 2020 – the most ever. With future forests under threat, a young woman journeys into the Canadian bush to endure a grueling and unconventional season of tree planting. Project Links Facebook News & Reviews “Planted in 2020: A Journey into the Environment”Toronto Film […]
Short Film: PLANTED IN 2020, 18min., Canada, Documentary
This is a short film using film talent laid of during Covid, with no work I produced a short inspiring film to show and record how one community organised without state or Government support to help thousands get through the crisis and access food. Project Links Website Facebook Twitter Instagram News & Reviews https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2020/10/feeding-lewisha
Short Film: FEEDING LEWISHAM, 12min., UK, Documentary
The Weather Underground is a documentary about the radical group of that name, and the times that gave rise to it. In addition to archival footage, it includes retrospective interviews with multiple Weather Underground members themselves and other figures from that era. It’s quite well-done and thought-provoking. By the late ’60s, Robert Kennedy and Martin […]
Netflix collected eight prizes at the IDA Awards, while Bradley won both Best Director and Best Emerging Director for “Time.”
IDA Awards: ‘Crip Camp’ Wins Best Feature, Garrett Bradley Is Best Director
The experimental documentary shot on the ground by citizen-journalists during the Hong Kong protests of August 2019 to January 2020, it captured the conversations and words appeared during the Hong Kong Movement in 2019, from slogans chanted by the protestors to, speech by advocate, argument between local residents, to graffties on the wall. It tends […]
Short Film: HONG KONG DIALOGUES, 40min., Hong Kong, Experimental Documentary
“…He still considers himself an outlaw, underground street artist, producing art for ordinary people who never buy paintings or visit art museums. His images are simultaneously ironic and iconoclastic, in a way that forces people to question the way society operates” Banksy and the Rise of Outlaw Art Directed by Ello […]
REBEL YELL: Banksy & the Rise of Outlaw Art
I’ve recently seen this stunning piece of film on YouTube that was posted in November of 2020. Shot in the 1930s, it’s a drive down Market Street from Steuart Street near the Ferry Building to Stockton Street. The filmmakers were obviously inspired by the famous 1906 film ‘A Trip Down Market Street’. It’s been colorized […]
Enjoy this 1930s version of ‘A Trip Down Market Street’ in color
Jerry Rothwell brings Higashida Naoki’s groundbreaking book to the screen with a palpable sense of what it means to be neurodivergent.
‘The Reason I Jump’ Review: A Humble and Humane Documentary Profile of Nonspeaking Autistic People
Jim Marshall’ın Hikayesi (İKSV Özel) İKSV ocak seçkisinde bugün bir belgeselimiz var. Alfred George Bailey yönetmenliğinde müzik tutkusunu fotoğrafçılıkla birleştirip bu dünyaya unutulmaz eserler bırakan Jim Marshall’ın hayatını anlatan belgesel yayınlandı. 2020 Grierson Trust En iyi İngiliz Sanat Belgeseli ve 2019 San Francisco En İyi Belgesel ödüllerine layık görülen belgesel hem bir biyografiyi […]
Fotoğrafı Göster: Jim Marshall’ın Hikayesi (İKSV Özel)
History Of Swear Words [2021] Welcome to “History of Swear Words”, hosted by none other than the legendary Nicolas Cage. I’m serious. This series is real and it’s easily bingeable. So prepare yourself to learn more about your favorite swear words, from “Fuck” to “Shit”. It’s a lot of fun and it’s actually educative. […]
Documentary Series To Stream On Netflix
It’s likely that Frida Kahlo’s face is better known than her paintings. Then again, the same could be said of many public figures. Surely more people own some form of paraphernalia with Marilyn Monroe plastered on it than have seen her movies. Images of Ruth Bader Ginsburg are common, but how well known are the […]
Every year, the American Legion hosts a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas and has them build a representative government from the ground up. Every state but Hawaii does the same or similar, but this particular documentary is hanging around Austin, Texas, to witness their particular experience. High schools nominate which students will be sent, ostensibly […]
Netflix has unveiled the trailer for Scorsese’s latest, which will premiere January 8, 2021.
‘Pretend It’s a City’ Trailer: Martin Scorsese’s Surprise Fran Lebowitz Doc Heads to Netflix
Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera’s recent film The Infiltrators uses a bold mix of film forms to tell the true story of a group of young undocumented activists who intentionally detain themselves in a South Florida immigration detention facility. Styled as a heist film, Ibarra and Rivera weave together verité footage, testimony, and reenactment to produce a compelling argument against immigration detention. In Diana Ruiz’s interview, Ibarra and Rivera discuss the ways in which The Infiltrators problematizes extractive modes of documentary film and how the project’s requisite reenactment brought about unexpected results. They also discuss the creative and political dimensions of “undocumented storytelling,” which relates to the filmmakers’ enduring commitment to depicting fully dimensional representations of immigrants and Latinx experiences.
From the Archives: The Infiltrators
A weird one… I wrote about RECREATION already — this Keystone park film didn’t seem much different from a half-dozen others, and it survives in a form most uneven and considerably more ragged than most. As so often at Keystone, Chaplin makes valuable discoveries in one short (THE FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR) only to […]
The Sunday Intertitle: Charlie as Chaplin or Chaplin as Charlie?