The penultimate film in this year’s Documentary Premieres wraps up today’s Sundance profiles: Sebastian Junger’s WHICH WAY IS THE FRONT LINE FROM HERE? THE LIFE AND TIME OF TIM HETHERINGTON
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: WHICH WAY IS THE FRONT LINE FROM HERE?
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In Theatres: OUR SCHOOL
Coming to Brooklyn’s reRun Theater this Friday, January 18: OUR SCHOOL
Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coca-Cozma’s look at the attempts to integrate Roma into Romanian schools made its world premiere at Tribeca in 2011. Since then, it has screened extensively, including Visions du Reel, Thessaloniki Doc, United Nations Association, One World, Transylvania, and Silverdocs, picking up the grand jury prize at the latter.
I included the doc in my Tribeca coverage here.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: WHEN I WALK
Continuing my film-by-film look at this year’s Documentary Premieres: Jason DaSilva’s WHEN I WALK, the filmmaker’s candid self-portrait of learning to live with multiple sclerosis.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS
Academy Award-winning director and Sundance alum Alex Gibney’s newest film continues my profiles of this year’s Documentary Premieres section: WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS
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On VOD: WE’RE NOT BROKE
Coming to Hulu for free tomorrow, Tuesday, January 15: WE’RE NOT BROKE
Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce’s incendiary exposé of corporate tax loopholes made its premiere a year ago at Sundance. Its festival circuit included Dallas, the Independent Film Festival Boston, DocAviv, and Montclair, among others. In recognition of the national dialogue around the fiscal cliff, the filmmakers have opted to release the doc for free on Hulu in conjunction with Sundance’s Artist Services program.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
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In the Works: ENDLESS BLOCKS OF TIME
An exploration of aging, death, and dying through the lens of self-selecting, specialized retirement communities.
Curious about the phenomenon of retirement in America, and noting the erosion of a sense of traditional familial responsibility for caring our elders, filmmaker Davey Field examines the resultant development of manufactured senior communities organized around specific interests tied to various ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, vocational, or identity-based factors. Often organized collectively, the residents take an active role in constructing their own chosen substitute families, and, importantly, setting the terms for the way their later years, and eventual deaths, play out. Continue reading
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Special Screening: FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
Coming to NYC’s Stranger Than Fiction series at the IFC Center next Tuesday, January 15: FIRST COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
Alan Berliner’s poignant portrait of his mentor’s struggle with Alzheimer’s premiered this past Fall at the New York Film Festival. It went on to screen at IDFA, where it picked up the fests top award.
I wrote about the doc out of the New York Film Festival here.
Note: Tuesday’s screening will feature a Q&A with Berliner.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: SOUND CITY
This week’s Documentary Premieres profiles wrap up with the second of two odes to music recording studios: Dave Grohl’s SOUND CITY
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: RUNNING FROM CRAZY
Kicking off the second half of this year’s Documentary Premieres: Barbara Kopple’s RUNNING FROM CRAZY, a portrait of a famed family and its struggle with mental illness.
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2013 Sundance Docs in Focus: PANDORA’S PROMISE
Reaching the halfway point in 2013’s Documentary Premieres: Robert Stone’s PANDORA’S PROMISE, a radical re-examination of nuclear energy.
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