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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Returning to my 2014 Sundance profiles, the next US Documentary Competition title: Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman’s E-TEAM, following the investigators of human rights violations around the world.
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The third Sundance 2014 US Documentary Competition title of today: Todd Miller’s DINOSAUR 13, about the strange aftermath of a singular paleontological find.
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