New to DVD this week:
THE INVADERS
Director:
Prichard Smith
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2015
About:
Filling in a lost chapter of civil rights history, a look at the generation of radicals that emerged in Memphis in 1967.
Category Archives: Documentary
On DVD: THE INVADERS
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On VOD: YOUNG PLATO
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, December 6:
YOUNG PLATO
Director:
Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Dublin, Thessaloniki Doc, Biografilm, CPH:DOX
About:
A visionary headmaster at a Catholic primary school in Belfast teaches ancient Greek wisdom as an antidote for pessimism, violence and historical despair.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On DVD: IL BUCO
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, December 6:
IL BUCO
Director:
Michelangelo Frammartino
World Premiere:
D’A Film Festival 2021
Select Festivals:
Venice, New York, Busan, Beijing, Tokyo, BFI London, Thessaloniki, Mar del Plata, Vienna,
About:
A hybrid docufiction recreation of a 1961 speleological expedition to measure Europe’s deepest cave in Italy’s Calabria region.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Streaming: BIG SONIA
New to OVID this week:
BIG SONIA
Directors:
Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday
Premiere:
Napa Valley 2016
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Seattle, Cleveland, Sun Valley, Big Sky Doc, Milwaukee, Durban, Jewish fests in San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Palm beach, Charlotte, Kansas City, Southampton, and Miami
About:
An intimate and at times humorous portrait of an unstoppable Holocaust survivor.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On TV & Streaming: UNVEILED: SURVIVING LA LUZ DEL MUNDO
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6:
UNVEILED: SURVIVING LA LUZ DEL MUNDO
Director:
Jennifer Tiexiera
World Premiere:
HBO/HBO Max (December 2022)
About:
A docuseries exploring the horrifying, yet relatively unknown story of the Christian church La Luz del Mundo and the sexual abuse that scores of members, many of them minors, say they have suffered at the hands of its successive leaders, known as the “Apostles.”
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
On DVD: BANKSY MOST WANTED
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, December 6:
BANKSY MOST WANTED
Director:
Aurélia Rouvier, Seamus Haley
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, El Gouna, Philadelphia, Warsaw, Mill Valley, Sidewalk, Encounters
About:
The ultimate film about the mysterious rebel artist.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
In Theatres: BROADWAY RISING
Coming to theatres today, Monday, December 5:
BROADWAY RISING
Director:
Amy Rice
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
Charting the Broadway community’s journey from the almost overnight shut down due to the pandemic to the paths essential theater workers took on their road back to the stage.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
In Theatres: TANTURA
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 2:
TANTURA
Director:
Alon Schwarz
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, It’s All True, Cleveland, Docaviv, Hong Kong, Hot Springs Doc, Doclisboa, Philadelphia
About:
In 1948, when the State of Israel was established, hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed, with their inhabitants killed or exiled. The film focuses on one village: Tantura, bringing to light Israel’s founding narrative and its society’s inability to come to terms with its dark past.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Streaming: SR.
Coming to Netflix today, Friday, December 2:
SR.
Director:
Chris Smith
World Premiere:
Telluride 2022
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, New York, Camden, Montclair, Philadelphia, AFI Fest
About:
A tender and fittingly irreverent portrait of the life and career of Robert Downey Sr, the fearless, visionary American director who set the standard for counterculture comedy in the sixties and seventies.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
In Theatres: 2ND CHANCE
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 2:
2ND CHANCE
Director:
Ramin Bahrani
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
SXSW, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Doc, Santa Barbara, Tokyo, Nantucket
About:
An exploration of the rise and fall of Richard Davis, the charming and brash inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself 192 times to prove his product worked.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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