Coming to theatres today, Friday, May 21:
FINAL ACCOUNT
Director:
Luke Holland
World Premiere:
Venice 2020
Select Festivals:
IDFA
About:
Interviews with the last living generation of Germans to have participated in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich – not the infamously chilling names in history books, but the everyday citizens who carried out the plans made by the architects of mass-scale genocide.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Apple TV+ today, Friday, May 21:
1971: THE YEAR THAT MUSIC CHANGED EVERYTHING
Director:
Asif Kapadia
World Premiere:
Apple TV+ release (May 2021)
About:
A docuseries exploring how the popular musicians and soundtracks of 1971 shaped culture and politics.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to MUBI tomorrow, Friday, May 21:
BLOCKADE
Director:
Sergei Loznitsa
World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2006
Select Festivals:
Krakow, Reykjavik, Sydney, Mar del Plata, Thessaloniki Doc
About:
Rarely seen silent images found in Soviet film archives retell the story of the 900-day siege of Leningrad during WWII.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to virtual cinemas tomorrow, Friday, May 21:
THE PENNY BLACK
Director:
Joe Saunders
World Premiere:
Slamdance 2020
Select Festivals:
St Louis, Newport Beach
About:
A man searches for his shady neighbor, who entrusted him with a valuable stamp collection before mysteriously vanishing.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to virtual cinemas tomorrow, Friday, May 21:
TWO GODS
Director:
Zeshawn Ali
World Premiere:
Full Frame 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BlackStar, Montclair, Hot Docs, Camden
About:
A Black Muslim casket maker mentors two boys.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to virtual cinemas in a newly remastered version this Friday, May 21:
THE NEW DEAL FOR ARTISTS
Director:
Wieland Schulz-Keil
World Premiere:
West German TV broadcast (September 1976)
About:
A look back at the Works Progress Administration, FDR’s ambitious government-supported public arts program under the New Deal.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to MUBI this Friday, May 21:
THE EVENT
Director:
Sergei Loznitsa
World Premiere:
Venice 2015
Select Festivals:
Toronto, IDFA, Cinema du Reel, San Francisco, Traverse City, Docs Against Gravity, Transilvania, Jerusalem, New Zealand, Melbourne, Ann Arbor
About:
A critical re-examination of August 1991: the end of Soviet rule and the supposed birth of Russian democracy.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix in a remastered re-release today, Wednesday, May 19:
THE LAST DAYS
Director:
James Moll
World Premiere:
theatrical release (October 1998)
Notable Recognition:
The film won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 1999.
About:
Five Hungarian Jews travel from their homes in the US back to Europe to recount how they survived Auschwitz during the final days of WWII.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, May 18:
INFLUENCE
Director:
Diana Neille, Richard Poplak
World Premiere:
Sundance 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Hot Docs, Double Exposure, Sheffield, DOXA, Durban, DMZ Docs, Dokufest, Encounters, Cleveland
About:
A deep dive into the rise and fall of disgraced PR/reputation management firm Bell Pottinger.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to OVID.tv today, Tuesday, May 18:
SEADRIFT
Director:
Tim Tsai
World Premiere:
Slamdance 2019
Select Festivals:
New Orleans, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, CAAMFest, Dallas, Hot Springs Doc, Indie Grits
About:
An investigation into the hostility experienced by Vietnamese refugees along the US Gulf Coast.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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