Film Review: Ailey (2021)
A reverential and uplifting documentary about Alvin Ailey, the trail-blazing dancer and choreographer whose work changed the face of AmericanContinue Reading
Tag: Documentary
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time
Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time shows that gold fever isn’t just something prospectors in the 1800s get. New from KinoContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s F.T.A. (Kino Classics)
F.T.A. the long out of circulation documentary about the Anti-War traveling Comedy Tour that featured Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland hasContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s M.C. Escher Journey to Infinity (Zeitgeist Films)
M.C. Escher: Journey to Infinity is a beautiful documentary that attempts to unravel the marvelous artistry (and math) behind the artist’sContinue Reading
Misha – MANIFF 2021 Opening Night
Misha, the opening film of Manchester Film Festival (MANIFF) 2021 is interesting and raises more questions than it answers. ButContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s Filmworker
Filmworker shows us the man behind the greatness that is Stanley Kubrick; Leon Vitali. Kino Lorber has brought this fascinating documentaryContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s The Kid Stays in the Picture (KL Studio Classics)
The Kid Stays in the Picture the documentary about the larger-than-life Producer (and often lampooned by comedians) Robert Evans makes itsContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s Nationtime (Kino Classics)
Director William Greaves’ Nationtime is an important historical document. Vital, alive, powerful, and as important currently as it was back in 1972. Kino LorberContinue Reading
Film Review: Zappa (2020)
Alex Winter continues his rise as one of the premiere documentary filmmakers with the Bio-Doc Zappa. Alex Winter’s Zappa is one of theContinue Reading
Hopper/Welles – AFI Film Festival 2020
Two legends, infante terrible both have one of the best conversations put to celluloid during the time they were makingContinue Reading