Review: David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch: The Art Life hits a sweet spot in terms of its release date. Lynch’s feature-length debut Eraserhead has just turned 40 years ...
Tag: Documentary
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth sequel will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
It’s been 10 years since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s seminal climate change documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim. While there ...
Trailers
The trailer for Beware the Slenderman will creep you out and disturb you
The Slender Man stabbing in 2014 was disturbing to say the least. Two 12-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin stabbed another girl 19 times ...
DOC NYC starts this week (November 10-17)
DOC NYC kicks off this Thursday, November 10th and runs until November 17th. DOC NYC is the largest documentary and non-fiction film festival ...
DOC NYC (November 10-17): Documentary film festival lineup and schedule now online
That time of year is almost upon New York. I’m talking about DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary/non-fiction film festival. Now in its seventh ...
DOC NYC Review: Weiner
Weiner is an appropriate film to review on Election Day, and not just because it’s one of the best political documentaries of the ...
Reviews
DOC NYC Review: O.J.: Made in America
[This review is part of Flixist’s coverage of DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in America. This year’s festival ...
Reviews
Review: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
The B-Side is an atypical Errol Morris documentary. He doesn’t use the Interrotron at all, his tool that allows interviewees to stare directly ...
Reviews
Review: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Steve James may be incapable of directing a bad documentary. His films includes Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and Life Itself. With Abacus: Small Enough ...
Review: Fire at Sea
Sometimes I’ll see a movie and that makes me shake my head and say, “Okay, yeah, I get it”. These sorts of movies ...
Reviews
DOC NYC Review: 13TH
13TH feels like a culmination of Ava DuVernay’s career to this point. The documentary brings together the racial and social history of Selma, ...