A camera can capture time distilled, its holder trying to catch the “uncatchable,†manipulating that which can’t be altered. Through…
Browsing: Documentary
As New York City braces for a historic election, I found an excellent film that chronicles one of the city’s…
Directed by Linus O’Brien (the son of Richard O’Brien, creator of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”), the documentary “Strange Journey:…
There are some films that resist the urge to introduce themselves or announce their themes. Instead, they wait quietly and…
Darlene Naponse’s latest film “Aki†opens with a quiet confidence that feels almost radical. No narration, no on-screen text telling…
“The American Southwest” from Director/Writer Ben Masters is a visually appealing documentary that takes viewers down the Colorado River, showcasing…
With many dramatic films about the Nazi Holocaust (“Schindler’s List,†“The Pianistâ€), perhaps it takes a documentary to do its…
Through her latest short films, “The Stand” and “Little Bird,” Vietnamese-American filmmaker Oanh-Nhi Nguyen pulls focus to the hardships faced…
In “Sane Inside Insanity: The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror,” filmmaker Andreas Zerr documents the phenomenon known as “The Rocky Horror…
Albert Serra’s “Afternoons of Solitude†is a committed, unflinching chronicle of poetic brutality. Or, is it brutal poetry? It’s the…