Moving on to this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition, I’ll begin with Ireland/UK’s KNUCKLE, director Ian Palmer’s longitudinal profile of two quarreling Irish clans.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: KNUCKLE
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
The final film in this year’s US Documentary Competition, and the third music-oriented one, Michael Rapaport’s BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST, is the definitive portrait of the groundbreaking hip-hop group.
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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.
Buy the DVD 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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