My latest Indiewire-curated selections for Hulu documentaries takes inspiration from Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr Day. The docs offer looks at King and his killer, as well as profiles of African and African-American activists and communities. View them all now for free!
For more information about the selections, see my Indiewire article.
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Next in Documentary Premieres: BONES BRIGADE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Stacy Peralta’s look back at his seminal 1980s skateboarding team.
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This doc-by-doc look at this year’s Sundance line-up shifts to the Documentary Premieres section: ABOUT FACE, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ look at the original supermodels and their thoughts on beauty and aging.
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Wrapping up this year’s World Cinema Documentary Competition: Swedish/UK film SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, Malik Bendjelloul’s investigation into a musical mystery.
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Nearing the end of the World Cinema Documentary Competition brings us to the fourth of four films in the section that also screened at IDFA: PUTIN’S KISS, Danish director Lise Birk Pedersen’s cautionary look at youth, idealism, nationalism, and politics in Russia.
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Heading into the homestretch with the World Cinema Documentary Competition: PAYBACK, from Canada’s Jennifer Baichwal, adapts Margart Atwood’s bestseller by taking a multi-tiered approach to exploring the concept of debt.
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The World Cinema Documentary Competition heads to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, care of Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz: THE LAW IN THESE PARTS explores the unique system of military law that has been developed to adjudicate an occupied population.
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Coming to DVD next Tuesday, January 17: LIFE 2.0
Jason Spingarn-Koff’s documentary on Second Life premiered at Sundance in 2010, and went on to screen at SXSW, Boston, San Francisco, CPH:DOX, and New Orleans, among others. Oprah’s OWN Documentary Club hosted the broadcast premiere last Summer after a limited theatrical run in the Spring.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
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Last night’s 5th annual Cinema Eye Honors, recognizing achievements in non-fiction film, saw multiple wins for my top film of 2011, THE INTERRUPTERS (top prize and Direction) and for TABLOID (Original Music Score and Graphic Design and Animation), with recognition also given to BUCK (Audience Choice), PINA (Production), SENNA (Editing), HELL AND BACK AGAIN (Cinematography), THE ARBOR (Debut Feature), THE TINIEST PLACE (Spotlight Award), plus special recognition to the PARADISE LOST trilogy (Hell Yeah Prize) and TITICUT FOLLIES (Legacy Award), among others.
Note: NYC audiences have a chance to see Frederick Wiseman’s TITICUT FOLLIES in a theatre next week as Stranger than Fiction screens the film on Tuesday, January 17 as a pre-Winter season special at the IFC Center, complete with a post-screening Q&A with the legendary Wiseman himself.
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Canada brings us the next film in the World Cinema Documentary Competition: INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE, Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky’s look at the creative process and personal sacrifice behind independent video game design.
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