Category Archives: Sundance

On DVD: CATFISH

Available on DVD starting today: CATFISH

I’ve previously written about Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman’s controversial and compulsively watchable 2010 Sundance film here.

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: SING YOUR SONG

The second of three musician-related projects in the US Documentary Competition, Susanne Rostock’s Harry Belafonte biography, SING YOUR SONG, covers far more than the man’s performing career, focusing in large part on his steadfast activism across numerous social justice issues.

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: TROUBADOURS

The last three films in the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition all involve musicians, beginning with Morgan Neville’s TROUBADOURS, a look back at the emergence of the singer-songwriter in the 1970s LA music scene.

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: HOT COFFEE

Next up, US Documentary Competition title HOT COFFEE, Susan Saladoff’s searing indictment of the influence of corporate America on our civil justice system.

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: CONNECTED

Tiffany Shlain’s US Documentary Competition title, CONNECTED, serves, as its tagline tells us, as “a declaration of interdependence.”

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: BUCK

Next up in the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition is Cindy Meehl’s BUCK, which profiles real life horse whisperer Buck Brannaman.

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: MISS REPRESENTATION

Like PAGE ONE, the next film in the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition takes a look at the media: Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s MISS REPRESENTATION, an examination of the impact of the objectification of women in film, TV, and advertising.

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: PAGE ONE: A YEAR INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES

The second half of my spotlight on the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition titles begins with Andrew Rossi’s PAGE ONE: A YEAR INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES, whose subtitle makes this one pretty self-explanatory.

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT

This look at the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition reaches the halfway mark with Director Marshall Curry and Co-Director Sam Cullman’s exploration of activism outside the law, IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT.

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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED

My rundown of the 2011 Sundance US Documentary Competition continues with Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion’s THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED, a portrait of a born again evangelist who was formerly the greatest mass murderer during Liberia’s brutal civil war.

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