Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, September 28:
ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN
Director:
Morgan Neville
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, AFI Docs
About:
A remarkably constructed portrait of the uncommon life and untimely death of the late storyteller, explorer, and chef.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s American Experience today and tomorrow, Monday, September 27 and Tuesday, September 28:
CITIZEN HEARST
Director:
Amanda Pollak, Stephen Ives
World Premiere:
PBS broadcast (September 2021)
About:
An exploration of the life and career of the influential media mogul who inspired Orson Welles and Herman J Mankiewicz’s CITIZEN KANE.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO this Sunday, September 26:
NUCLEAR FAMILY
Director:
Ry Russo-Young
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
About:
A deeply personal docuseries, 20 years in the making, in which the director comes to terms with the emotional tumult of her childhood, when the sperm donor who helped make her, gay civil rights lawyer Tom Steel, sued her lesbian moms for paternity and visitation rights.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres and to VOD today, Friday, September 24:
ON THESE GROUNDS
Director:
Garrett Zevgetis
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021 (under original title SPRING VALLEY)
Select Festivals:
IFF Boston
About:
After an explosive viral video shows a white policeman throwing a Black teenager from her school desk, a woman uproots her life to help the girl, face the officer, and dismantle the system behind the assault.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 24:
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOY IN THE WORLD
Director:
Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Thessaloniki Doc, Hong Kong, Cleveland, Moscow, Revelation Perth, Melbourne
About:
A revelatory look at the lasting impact of fame and objectification on a young male actor.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres and to VOD tomorrow, Friday, September 24:
MAN IN THE FIELD: THE LIFE AND ART OF JIM DENEVAN
Director:
Patrick Trefz
World Premiere:
Santa Barbara 2020
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs
About:
A portrait of the artist and chef behind Outstanding in the Field, a radical alternative to the conventional dining experience.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Festival:
The 59th New York Film Festival
Dates:
September 24-October 10
About:
This fall cinephile mainstay returns to an all in-person event this year, presenting more than 50 new and recent features, among them just 13 works of nonfiction, as noted below.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
New to VOD this week:
BUDDY GUY: THE BLUES CHASE THE BLUES AWAY
Director:
Devin Amar, Matt Mitchener, Charles Todd
World Premiere:
American Masters PBS broadcast (July 2021)
About:
An exploration of the life and career of the legendary blues guitarist, a pioneer of Chicago’s West Side sound and major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Discovery+ this Friday, September 24:
CURSE OF THE CHIPPENDALES
Director:
Jesse Vile
World Premiere:
Discovery+ (September 2021)
About:
A docuseries about the dark side of the 1980s all-male striptease dance troupe.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to MUBI tomorrow, Thursday, September 23:
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
Director:
Hannah Jayanti
World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2020
Select Festivals:
Camden, DOXA, Sheffield, Dok Leipzig, San Francisco DocFest, Calgary Underground, Bogota, Guth Gafa, Brooklyn, New Horizons
About:
A speculative documentary about time and how we weave the past into the present and our possible future.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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