Coming to theatres and VOD tomorrow, Friday, July 23:
AILEY
Director:
Jamila Wignot
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Tribeca, Frameline, Provincetown, Thessaloniki Doc
About:
A revealing, moving portrait of pioneering choreographer Alvin Ailey.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Disney+ tomorrow, Friday, July 23:
STUNTMAN
Director:
Kurt Mattila
World Premiere:
Los Angeles Film Festival 2018
About:
Veteran Hollywood stuntman Eddie Braun sets out to fulfill Evel Knievel’s unfulfilled dream of crossing the Snake River in a rocket.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO and HBO Max this Friday, July 23:
WOODSTOCK 99: PEACE, LOVE, AND RAGE
Director:
Garret Price
World Premiere:
HBO/HBO Max release (July 2021)
About:
The story of the ill-fated music festival, promoted to echo the unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert, but which instead devolved into riots, looting, and sexual assaults.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres this Friday, July 23:
ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT: THE CONVERGENCE OF HIP HOP AND SKATEBOARDING (1987-1997)
Director:
Jeremy Elkin
World Premiere:
theatrical release (July 2021)
About:
An exploration of the impact from the interplay between the subcultures of skateboarding and hip hop in late 80s and early 90s downtown NYC.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, July 20:
BILLY GRAHAM
Director:
Sarah Colt
World Premiere:
American Experience (May 2021)
About:
An exploration of the life and career of the popular evangelist and his influence on American politics and culture.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to the Metrograph’s virtual cinema this Thursday, July 22:
LESSONS OF DARKNESS
Director:
Werner Herzog
World Premiere:
Berlin 1992
Select Festivals:
Melbourne, Toronto
About:
An apocalyptic vision featuring the oil well fires in Kuwait after the Gulf-War, as a whole world burst into flames.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, July 20:
TULSA: THE FIRE AND THE FORGOTTEN
Director:
Jonathan Silvers
World Premiere:
Human Rights Watch online preview (April-May 2021)
About:
An examination of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on the 100th anniversary of the crime and in the context of other racial massacres and police killings.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, July 20:
THE GO-GO BOYS: THE INSIDE STORY OF CANNON FILMS
Director:
Hilla Medalia
World Premiere:
Cannes 2014
Select Festivals:
Jerusalem, Deauville, Strasbourg, Rio, Sitges, Haifa, Jewish fests in New York, Atlanta, Miami, Boulder, Toronto, San Francisco, San Diego, and Hartford
About:
Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus relate the unlikely rise and inevitable fall of their legendary independent film company, Cannon Films.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, July 19:
STATELESS
Director:
Michèle Stephenson
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BlackStar, Hot Docs, AFI Latin American, Portland, Halifax Black, Boston Latino, RIDM, Trinidad and Tobago
About:
After the Dominican Republic strips the citizenship of residents of Haitian descent, a determined attorney fights to protect the rights of these now stateless people.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
The stunning island of Hispaniola is shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti, countries with a complicated history and tense relations. In 2013, the DR’s Supreme Court retroactively stripped the citizenship of residents of Haitian descent, leaving more than 200,000 people stateless, subject to immediate deportation, and devastating loss. In the midst of staggering intolerance, attorney Rosa Iris fights to protect the rights of these disenfranchised people while leading a grassroots campaign for a better future.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to MUBI this Sunday, July 18:
PLAYING MEN
Director:
Matjaž Ivanišin
World Premiere:
FIDM 2017
Select Festivals:
Sarajevo, Rotterdam, ZagrebDox, True/False, Docs Against Gravity, Indielisboa, Milwaukee, Documentamadrid
About:
A travelogue/essay film examining Mediterranean masculinity and games.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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