The Beatles: Get Back
Walt Disney Studios has taken the hundreds of hours of film that Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed in January of 1969 and turned it over to the filmmaker responsible for bringing Tolkien… Read more »
Tag: documentary
Girls Who Like Girls
Pauline Edwards’ Girls Who Like Girls (2001) is a sort of That’s Entertainment that deals almost exclusively with the work of softcore maestro Radley Metzger. It’s a film made up… Read more »
The Ripper
The Ripper (2020) is a four-part documentary series by Ellena Wood and Jesse Vile about the Yorkshire Ripper that was released via Netflix. Formally The Ripper plays out like any… Read more »
The Lost Leonardo
Andreas Koefoed’s The Lost Leonardo (2021) frames the mysteries and scandals surrounding the Salvator Mundi like a true crime documentary. It’s a slick film with a pointed messaging. Koefoed answers… Read more »
The Sparks Brothers
Early on in Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers (2021) someone says something like “Sparks is a band whose wikipedia article you could read and still know nothing about them”…. Read more »
Summer Of Soul
In 1969 Hal Tulchin produced a film record of the shows performed as part of the Harlem Cultural Festival. Roughly fifty years later Robert Fyvolent came into possession of the… Read more »
Queens At Heart
An anonymously made film about four trans women, Queens At Heart (1967) survives today due to the efforts of the UCLA film archive. It’s an exploitative documentary that’s too sensitive… Read more »
Sons Of Sam
Things like Making A Murderer (2015 – 2018) just do not happen every day. It’s rare that a documentary film or series constructively impacts our society let alone changes the… Read more »
Above Us Only Sky
What does Michael Epstein’s Above Us Only Sky (2019) give us Lennon fans? We get to see a lot of the same Steve Gebhardt footage that went into Gimme Some… Read more »
10 On Ten
Throughout Abbas Kiarostami’s career he sought emotional and spiritual truths by investigating the cinema on a technical level; dissecting, rearranging, and deconstructing its various technical and philosophical machinations. Ten (2002)… Read more »
