Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Director:
Reid Davenport
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Sydney
About:
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of individual agency.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
SIRENS
Director:
Rita Baghdadi
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Doc, BFI Flare, Cleveland, Sun Valley, Florida, BAFICI, Krakow, Guadalajara, Sydney, Frameline, Outfest, BAMcinemaFest
About:
On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East’s first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality, and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Streaming on Showtime tomorrow, Friday, September 30 and coming to TV on Showtime on Sunday, October 2:
NOTHING COMPARES
Director:
Kathryn Ferguson
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Seattle, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Edinburgh, Indielisboa
About:
The story of Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and subsequent exile from the pop mainstream.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Friday, September 30:
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND
Director:
Iliana Sosa
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
Select Festivals:
Full Frame, Thin Line, RiverRun, Milwaukee, Philadelphia Latino, Los Angeles Latino, Cine Las Americas, Guanajuato, Camden, AFI Latin American, Tallgrass
About:
A gentle love letter to farmworkers, mutual caregivers, and transnational families through the filmmaker’s portrait of her grandfather.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Festival:
The 60th New York Film Festival
Dates:
September 30-October 16
About:
Nearly 60 new features – among them, 15 works of nonfiction or hybrids – are showcased in this major Fall cinema event.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Overviews, Recommendations
Coming to OVID today, Tuesday, September 27:
THE GREENAWAY ALPHABET
Director:
Saskia Boddeke
World Premiere:
IDFA 2017
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BAFICI, Thessaloniki Doc, Biografilm, Tirana
About:
A playful profile of British director Peter Greenaway.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
Acclaimed filmmaker Peter Greenaway – perhaps best known for THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE, AND HER LOVER – is a lover of patterns and sequences, a motif that recurs throughout his work. In this playful portrait by his wife, multimedia artist Saskia Boddeke, Greenaway engages in an autobiographical alphabetic word association led by his perceptive 16-year-old daughter, Pip. As the father and daughter run through their ABCs, illustrated by scenes from his lavish body of work, a deeply personal, and surprisingly revealing, portrait of Greenaway emerges.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s POV tonight, Monday, September 26:
DELIKADO
Director:
Karl Malakunas
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2022
Select Festivals:
Sheffield, DMZ Docs, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Sydney, Mountainfilm, Melbourne, Doc Edge, Human Rights Watch
About:
In the majestic tropical island of Palawan, three environmental crusaders confront murder, betrayal, and political corruption.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 23:
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
Coming to theatres and VOD tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
THE AMERICAN DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
Director:
Abigail E Disney, Kathleen Hughes
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, Traverse City
About:
Abigail Disney, using her family’s story to explore how systemic injustice took hold of America’s economy, asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 23:
NOTHING COMPARES
Director:
Kathryn Ferguson
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Seattle, Hot Docs, San Francisco, Edinburgh, Indielisboa
About:
The story of Sinéad O’Connor’s phenomenal rise to worldwide fame and subsequent exile from the pop mainstream.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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