How to Watch: Stream on Amazon. Honeyland is a film that unfolds in an alternately expansive and claustrophobic register. The filmmakers, who distilled plus hours of footage into a taught film, could not have known that this drama would become a parable between old and new, tradition and modernity, but the film is all the more captivating for it. The film delivers a staggering visual feast in the footage of these runway shows, rarely seen by those outside the fashion world, and the emotional punch of witnessing an exuberant talent headed toward self-destruction.
View Iframe URL. Marina Zenovich whose prior directorial credits include documentaries about Richard Pryor and Roman Polanski began working on a documentary about Robin Williams about a year after his death, and soon joined forces with Alex Gibney, who came on board as a co-producer.
The film interviews activists, academics, and politicians including Angela Davis, Michelle Alexander, and Jelani Cobb to get at the fundamental question of why the vast majority of incarcerated persons in the U. Peck brings his subject back to life in archival footage and in readings of his work and correspondence by the actor Samuel L.
And the future of the country depends on that. They give the people around them a vision of another freer, wilder, more spontaneous form of life, one that can be easily lost in a huge, stressful, rapidly modernizing place like Istanbul.
Why did he misconstrue the timeline of his improprieties despite the very real likelihood that more sexy pen pals would come forward? Why, for that matter, was he sending dick pics to strangers at all? The film about Russell, an enigmatic artist who played with the Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, and many, many more in his recording studio in northeast Oklahoma, was stalled due, in part, to a delay in securing all the music rights. Before Amy Winehouse became a superstar who famously spiraled out of control until her death in , at age 27, from alcohol poisoning, she was a regular girl with a very extraordinary talent.
We loved her so much that we made her larger than life; but when that kind of celebrity proved too much for her to handle, when she began to slip away into addiction and self-destruction, we turned on her. Laura Gabbert followed the beloved Los Angeles Times food critic Jonathan Gold for her documentary , which showed her subject—a titan of taste and talent—to be as multifaceted a man as he was a writer. Gold was the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for food writing, largely because of his laser focus on L.
The film also serves as a love letter to Los Angeles, the place where Gold was born and raised and, excepting a stint in New York when he worked at Gourmet in the early aughts, where he made his life.
If you needed proof of its far-reaching real-life repercussions, when the documentary landed on the shortlist for an Academy Award, the church of Scientology allegedly launched a smear campaign to influence Academy members. Relying on interviews and archival footage from the likes of Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, David Bowie, Sting, David Byrne, and Phil Spector, the film proves a rollicking tribute and provides a new perspective on some of the most familiar music of the past century.
Oppenheimer explores the mids massacre of communists and ethnic Chinese people in Indonesia in which nearly half a million people died by inviting some of the surviving and proud executioners to make their own movie about the events, and to tell the story through their own dramatic re-enactments.
They portray not only themselves, but also people they interrogated, tortured, and killed. The result is a topsy-turvy and surprisingly sympathetic if not without a sense of schadenfreude take on the American Dream, boom and bust. The film jets from Cape Town to Los Angeles to the Motor City, and in the process tells a great story too remarkable to spoil here.
In , three teenagers were convicted of murdering three young boys in West Memphis, whose bodies apparently showed signs of torture and ritual assault. Beginning with an examination into the police investigation, filmmaker Amy Berg brings to light new evidence surrounding the arrest and conviction of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley. All three were teens at the time and lost 18 years of their lives after being wrongly convicted and imprisoned.
In Jiro Dreams of Sushi , the thenyear-old director David Gelb descends into a Tokyo subway station and finds a three-Michelin-starred, seat sushi restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro, helmed by year-old chef and owner, Jiro.
As a despairing character comments in Hotel Rwanda , a drama about the Rwandan genocide: "If people see this footage, they'll say, 'Oh my God, that's terrible,' and they'll go on eating their dinners. Orlando Bagwell, an Emmy award-winning film-maker and director of the New York-based JustFilms initiative that supports films on social issues, says today's film-makers have learned how to interrupt dinner.
There are now several organisations, such as Good Screenings , Britdoc and Resist , that attempt to capitalise on that embarrassingly brief moment by making practical links between campaigning documentaries with activist organisations. If Cathy Come Home had been released today, those callers to the BBC phone lines would have been directed to a website where they could have signed an online petition, donated money to a related good cause and found out the date of the next anti-government-cuts demo.
Perhaps if the impact of cinema is hard to quantify, it is not an indication of its failure to change the world, but of the occasionally insidious way in which it does so — not by changing the world, exactly, but by subtly changing the minds of the people in it. If we do reach million people, then so what? What influence could million angry, inspired, motivated citizens possibly have? If after all that, the world still doesn't change, maybe it's not the movies we should be blaming.
Great movies can turn audiences into activists, but does that make up for all the time wasted watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon, when we should have been out, defending our civil liberties? Probably not. The Puma Creative Impact award is announced on 11 October. Details: puma. Ellen E Jones. Much attention is given to the paper's role in digital media, but happens is that a charismatic hero comes along and distracts from the big picture.
That man here is David Carr, the paper's raspy-voiced star media reporter. He reminds me of the reporters I held in awe when I first went to work for newspapers.
Like Mike Royko, he combines cynicism, idealism and a canny understanding of how things really work. As we watch him meticulously report the story that exposed the lamentable "frat house" management of Sam Zell's Chicago Tribune, we see the reporter as a prosecutor, nailing down an air-tight case. Louis circus. Flora witnessed her mother killed, and was shipped in a crate to the United States at a tender age, where after training and bonding with Balding, she became the star performer and namesake of Circus Flora.
This is a one-ring circus that was created as a commissioned work for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston and has performed annually in St. Louis since Balding and his wife, Laura, decided Flora was reaching the end of her show business career and deserved a pleasant retirement. A larger question coils beneath the surface of the film.
What happens to an elephant that is "trained? One of the big documentary hits of the year. Buck Brannaman was the original "horse whisperer," the character who Nicholas Evans based his novel on and Robert Redford used as the on-set consultant for his film. He has a way with horses, and Cindy Meehl's documentary is moving as he shows them engaged in dances of understanding.
Buck was abused as a child, and that experience influenced his gentle approach to horse training. It involves empathy for the feelings of the horse. Buck understands how horses read humans, how they interpret gestures, and how they're "so sensitive they can feel a fly land. The title has piercing accuracy. He became like Wile E. Coyote, chasing the Road Runner of his dreams off the edge of a cliff and afraid to look down. Here is a man driven to assert himself. He waited five years for the Tonight Show, lost it in months, and needed to say to the universe, "Sir!
I exist! Overworked, exhausted, assaulted by demands, he cannot say no to an autograph, patiently hosts waves of visitors in his dressing room, drums up work on his days off, and at times seems on the edge of madness. The man behind the image. A tantalizing example of the kind of documentary I find engrossing: A film about an unusual person that invites us into the mystery of a human life.
Stanless, as I will call him, believes it absolutely. His girlfriend Barbara and his brother Michael agree, I gather, although they never actually say so. How does the Strongest Man in the World support himself? He works as a freelance in the scrap metal industry, collecting scrap and hauling it to a yard. We see him heaving heavy loads into the bed of his truck.
Does this help him train? No, I learn from the film's notes, it tires him out and makes it harder to train. Although Zackary Levy, the filmmaker, followed him over a course of years and shot hundreds of hours of films, we only see him actually training twice: Once squeezing a hand grip, and again staggering for several yards while carrying heavy concrete blocks. His girlfriend Barbara She introduces his act: "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls!
Presenting Staaaaaanless Steeeel! The Strongest Man in the Woooorld! Is he really that strong? I have no idea. Can a chimpanzee learn to speak by using sign language?
But in what sense does it know what it is saying? The chimp emerges from this experience as a more admirable creature than many of its humans. How this substitution fits with a traditional documentary ethics I will set aside. It produces a very absorbing film. Across the world's largest garbage dump, near Rio de Janeiro, the Pickers crawl with their bags and buckets, seeking treasures that can be recycled: Plastics and metals, mostly, but anything of value.
From the air they look like ants. You would assume they are the wretched of the earth, but those we meet in " Waste Land " seem surprisingly cheerful. They lead hard lives but understandable ones. They live nearby. Single Account. View for free.
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