Coming to theatres this Friday, June 30:
LOOK & SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY
Director:
Laura Dunn
Co-Director:
Jef Sewell
Premiere:
SXSW 2016 (earlier version titled THE SEER)
Select Festivals:
Sundance, Nantucket, Hot Docs, Montclair, Berlin, Nashville, RiverRun
About:
A profile of the outspoken author and environmentalist through his immediate surroundings.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, June 27:
LAST MEN IN ALEPPO
Director:
Feras Fayyad
Co-Director:
Steen Johannessen
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Full Frame, Sarasota, Movies That Matter, Istanbul, Nashville
About:
A chronicle the lives of Aleppo’s White Helmets, the city’s volunteer civil defense team.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, June 27:
MISSION CONTROL: THE UNSUNG HEROES OF APOLLO
Director:
David Fairhead
Premiere:
SXSW 2017
Select Festivals:
Sarasota
About:
Members of NASA’s Mission Control recount the triumphs and tragedies of the US space program through the end of the Apollo missions.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD and VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, June 27:
LEGION OF BROTHERS
Director:
Greg Barker
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
Minneapolis-St Paul
About:
Green Berets relate their secret missions to overthrow the Taliban after 9/11.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, June 27:
OFF THE RAILS
Director:
Adam Irving
Premiere:
Full Frame 2016
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Hot Docs, Sarasota, RiverRun, Newport Beach, San Francisco Doc, Provincetown, Sidewalk, Woods Hole, DocUtah, Hot Springs Doc, Savannah, Denver, St Louis
About:
The stranger-than-fiction story of a serial mass transit operator imposter.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to NYC’s Queer/Art/Film today, Monday, June 26:
SOUTHWEST OF SALEM: THE STORY OF THE SAN ANTONIO FOUR
Director:
Deborah S Esquenazi
Premiere:
Tribeca 2016
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Sheffield, DocuWest, AFI Docs, Frameline, Outfest, Inside Out
About:
Four Latina lesbians seek exoneration for a shocking miscarriage of justice.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations
Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 23:
NOWHERE TO HIDE
Director:
Zaradasht Ahmed
Premiere:
IDFA 2016
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Thessaloniki Doc, One World, Göteborg, Cleveland, Sarasota, Docs Against Gravity, Sydney, Seattle, DocAviv, Human Rights Watch NYC, London, and Toronto
About:
A personal tour through daily life in Iraq.
Ahmed provides an intimate, immersive view of the lives of everyday Iraqis through his protagonist, Nori Sharif, a nurse who he teaches to use a camera. When the film begins, in 2011, Nori and his fellow countrymen are hopeful that the withdrawal of American troops means that their independent nation might finally be permitted peace. By the time this powerful, evocative, and very personal film ends, it’s 2014, and the encroachment of ISIS forces Nori, his wife, and their four young children to flee for their lives. Nori initially captures moments from his work at the Jalawla Emergency Hospital, but this relative tranquility soon gives way to an increasingly unstable Iraq, which costs Nori his job, and, as the viewer is later shown, destroys the hospital. As the Sharifs try to find some sanctuary, Nori documents their dire situation, and that of their fellow Iraqis. He serves as an on-the-ground Everyman, a citizen, not a soldier, whose every moment is nevertheless consumed with the impact of war, making his collaboration with Ahmed a stark, human, and unforgettable chronicle of life in wartime.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, June 23:
IN PURSUIT OF SILENCE
Director:
Patrick Shen
Premiere:
CPH:DOX 2015
Select Festivals:
SXSW, Atlanta, Cleveland, Ashland, Full Frame, Dallas, Docville, DOXA, Sheffield, San Francisco Green
About:
A meditation on silence in the cacophony of modern life.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres and to VOD via Netflix tomorrow, Friday, June 23:
NOBODY SPEAK: TRIALS OF THE FREE PRESS
Director:
Brian Knappenberger
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, AFI Docs, SXSW, Sheffield, Human Rights Watch, San Francisco, Miami
About:
An investigation into the erosion of the freedom of the press in the face of financial inequity.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, June 23:
IN TRANSIT
Directors:
Al Maysles, Lynn True, David Usui, Nelson Walker, and Ben Wu
Premiere:
Tribeca 2015
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Vancouver, Full Frame, Dokufest Kosovo, Camden, DMZ Docs, Docs DF, Docslisboa, RIDM, AFI Docs, Hamptons, Denver, DocAviv
About:
Documentary legend Al Maysles’ last film observes life aboard a cross-country train route.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
