Coming to Film Movement Plus tomorrow, Friday, April 29:
OECONOMIA
Director:
Carmen Losmann
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Zurich, Cologne, Ji.hlava
About:
A multilayered quest to fathom the workings of the capitalist system.
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Streaming: OECONOMIA
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
In Theaters: FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN
Coming to theatres this Friday, April 29:
FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN
Director:
Daniel Raim
World Premiere:
Palm Springs 2022 (cancelled)
Select Festivals:
Miami Jewish, Toronto Jewish, Atlanta Jewish, Seattle Jewish, Rehoboth Beach
About:
The story behind director Norman Jewison’s quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit FIDDLER ON THE ROOF as a wide-screen epic.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
In Theatres: THE WOBBLIES
Coming to theatres in a new restoration this Friday, April 29:
THE WOBBLIES
Director:
Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer
World Premiere:
New York Film Festival 1979
About:
The story of radical labor union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), better known as the Wobblies, which championed the formation of “one big union” for all unskilled laborers, regardless of their race and gender.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Streaming: DEAR MR BRODY
Coming to Discovery+ tomorrow, Thursday, April 28:
DEAR MR BRODY
Director:
Keith Maitland
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Telluride, SXSW, San Francisco Doc, Provincetown, Miami
About:
In 1970, eccentric hippie millionaire Michael Brody, Jr decided to give $25 million away to anyone who needed it, sparking a media frenzy and thousands of letters from strangers all requesting his help.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Special Screening: BROTHER’S KEEPER
Coming to NYC’s Paris Theater on 35mm for a 30th anniversary screening this Saturday, April 30:
BROTHER’S KEEPER
Directors:
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofksy
World Premiere:
Sundance 1992
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Chicago
About:
The lives of the aging Ward brothers are upended when one is accused of murder.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations
Hot Docs 2022 Overview
Festival:
The 29th Hot Docs
Dates:
April 28-May 8
About:
Making its return to an in-person event, along with online offerings throughout Canada, North America’s largest nonfiction event showcases approximately 145 new and recent doc features.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Streaming: THE MYSTERY OF MARILYN MONROE: THE UNHEARD TAPES
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, April 27:
THE MYSTERY OF MARILYN MONROE: THE UNHEARD TAPES
Director:
Emma Cooper
World Premiere:
Netflix (April 2022)
About:
An exploration of the mystery surrounding the death of the movie icon, focused on previously unheard interviews conducted with her inner circle.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On DVD: WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 26:
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY
Director:
W Kamau Bell
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
About:
Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you even try? While there are many people about whom we could ask those questions, none poses a tougher challenge than Bill Cosby.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
On DVD: WRITING WITH FIRE
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 26:
WRITING WITH FIRE
Director:
Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Nantucket, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, RIDM, BlackStar, Guadalajara, DocsMX, Double Exposure, Sydney, Yamagata Doc, Ambulante, Denver, San Diego Asian, Hawaii, Bergen, San Francisco, Krakow, Seattle, Thessaloniki Doc, One World, Shanghai
Notable Recognition:
The doc was nominated for the Academy Awards.
About:
A chronicle of the trailblazing work of India’s only news outlet run by Dalit women–once known as “untouchable.”
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Special Screening: GRANDPA WAS AN EMPEROR
Coming to NYC’s Pure Nonfiction series tonight, Tuesday, April 26:
GRANDPA WAS AN EMPEROR
Director:
Constance Marks
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Doclands, Los Angeles Pan African
About:
The great-granddaughter of famed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie investigates what happened to her beloved father after the 1974 coup that landed most of her family in prison.
Filed under Documentary, Film
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