Coming to OVID today, Wednesday, December 7:
WESTERN
Directors:
Bill Ross, Turner Ross
World Premiere:
Sundance 2015
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Full Frame, Sarasota, Dallas, Ashland, Maryland, Montclair
About:
Towns on both sides of the Rio Grande face the threat of drug cartels.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
New to DVD this week:
THE INVADERS
Director:
Prichard Smith
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2015
About:
Filling in a lost chapter of civil rights history, a look at the generation of radicals that emerged in Memphis in 1967.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, December 6:
YOUNG PLATO
Director:
Neasa Ní Chianáin, Declan McGrath
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Dublin, Thessaloniki Doc, Biografilm, CPH:DOX
About:
A visionary headmaster at a Catholic primary school in Belfast teaches ancient Greek wisdom as an antidote for pessimism, violence and historical despair.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
New to OVID this week:
BIG SONIA
Directors:
Leah Warshawski, Todd Soliday
Premiere:
Napa Valley 2016
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Seattle, Cleveland, Sun Valley, Big Sky Doc, Milwaukee, Durban, Jewish fests in San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Palm beach, Charlotte, Kansas City, Southampton, and Miami
About:
An intimate and at times humorous portrait of an unstoppable Holocaust survivor.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 2:
TANTURA
Director:
Alon Schwarz
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, It’s All True, Cleveland, Docaviv, Hong Kong, Hot Springs Doc, Doclisboa, Philadelphia
About:
In 1948, when the State of Israel was established, hundreds of Palestinian villages were destroyed, with their inhabitants killed or exiled. The film focuses on one village: Tantura, bringing to light Israel’s founding narrative and its society’s inability to come to terms with its dark past.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 2:
2ND CHANCE
Director:
Ramin Bahrani
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
SXSW, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Doc, Santa Barbara, Tokyo, Nantucket
About:
An exploration of the rise and fall of Richard Davis, the charming and brash inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself 192 times to prove his product worked.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 2:
FRAMING AGNES
Director:
Chase Joynt
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Outfest, Provincetown, Cleveland, BFI Flare, Seattle, Vancouver, Queerlisboa, Hot Springs Doc, Montclair, Bergen, Ashland
About:
After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of transgender actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, December 2:
LYNCH/OZ
Director:
Alexandre O Philippe
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
Select Festivals:
Sydney, Traverse City, Bucheon, Deauville, Fantastic Fest, Reykjavik, BFI London, Sitges, Rio, Doclisboa, Bergen, Ghent, Philadelphia, Taipei Golden Horse, Mar del Plata, Stockholm,
About:
An exploration of how Victor Fleming’s 1939 film THE WIZARD OF OZ is one of David Lynch’s most enduring obsessions.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to NatGeo tomorrow, Thursday, December 1 and to Disney+ this Friday, December 2:
THE TERRITORY
Director:
Alex Pritz
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, CPH:DOX, It’s All True, Docs Against Gravity, Philadelphia Environmental, Jerusalem, Movies That Matter, Cleveland, Seattle, Sydney
About:
When a network of Brazilian farmers seizes a protected area of the Amazon rainforest, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor must fight back in defense of the land and the people living deep within the forest.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 29:
RADIOMAN
Director:
Mary Kerr
Premiere:
Hot Docs 2012
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BAFICI, Krakow
About:
The story of an extraordinary eccentric who overcame homelessness and addiction to become an unlikely New York City movie legend.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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