The penultimate film in the 2014 Sundance US Documentary Competition closes out today’s doc profiles: Tracy Droz Tragos and Andrew Droz Palermo’s RICH HILL, a deeply humanistic look at the lives of three adolescents and their impoverished rural town.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: RICH HILL
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: PRIVATE VIOLENCE
The US Documentary Competition heads into the homestretch: Cynthia Hill’s PRIVATE VIOLENCE, an intimate and powerful exploration of domestic violence.
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In Theatres: LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF
Coming to NYC’s IFC Center tomorrow Friday, January 3: LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF
Andersen premiered his essay about the cinematic representation of Los Angeles at Toronto in 2003. It went on to have an extensive festival run, including slots at Sundance, Rotterdam, Marseille, Karlovy Vary, and CPH:DOX, among others. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, it is being presented in a new, remastered and re-edited version.
I previously wrote about the film here.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE OVERNIGHTERS
Resuming my film-by-film look at the docs of Sundance 2014: Jesse Moss’ US Documentary Competition title THE OVERNIGHTERS, in which a smalltown pastor’s desire to help the unfortunate threatens to turn his congregation against him.
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Happy New Year from w(n)td!
w(n)td is welcoming the new year by taking a break from regular posting until tomorrow, when the film-by-film profiles of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival documentary line-up will resume. The US Documentary Competition will wrap up later this week, and the World Cinema Documentary Competition will commence. If you missed any, the series starts here. Happy 2014!
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY
The last of my Sundance doc profiles before the New Year: Jeffrey Radice’s US Documentary Competition title NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY, a tribute to the infamous baseball pitcher Dock Ellis.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: MARMATO
Next up in the US Documentary Competition: Mark Grieco’s MARMATO, in which a rural Colombian mining town is threatened with extinction by multinational development.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: IVORY TOWER
Continuing my spotlight on the second half of the 2014 Sundance US Documentary Competition: Andrew Rossi returns to Sundance with IVORY TOWER, an eye-opening exploration of the high cost of higher education.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ
Today’s look at Sundance 2014’s US Documentary Competition wraps up: Brian Knappenberger’s THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ, about the life and tragic early death of the Internet wunderkind and information activist.
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2014 Sundance Docs in Focus: FED UP
I’ve reached the halfway point of this year’s US Documentary Competition profiles: Stephanie Soechtig’s FED UP, an investigation into America’s obesity epidemic.
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