Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, November 4:
STUTZ
Director:
Jonah Hill
World Premiere:
Theatrical release (November 2022)
About:
In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, November 4:
CALENDAR GIRLS
Director:
Maria Loohufvud, Love Martinsen
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Thessaloniki Doc, Docs Against Gravity, Cork, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Helsinki
About:
A coming-of-golden-age look at Florida’s most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of “the little old lady,” and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Showtime streaming tomorrow, Friday, November 4 and to TV on Sunday, November 6:
SPECTOR
Director:
Sheena M Joyce, Don Argott
World Premiere:
Showtime (November 2022)
About:
A docuseries exploring the enigmatic, legendary music producer Phil Spector and what happened on the fateful night of February 3, 2003 when actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead in his mansion.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres this Friday, November 4:
GOOD NIGHT OPPY
Director:
Ryan White
World Premiere:
Telluride 2022
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Aspen, Vancouver, Rio, Hamptons, Heartland, Bergen, San Diego, St Louis, Philadelphia
About:
A team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory create, launch, and guide Opportunity, a dazzlingly innovative and surprisingly personable Mars robotic explorer on an unprecedented 15-year adventure.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID this Friday, November 4:
LAPÜ
Director:
Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes
World Premiere:
Sundance 2019
Select Festivals:
Berlin, CPH:DOX, Thessaloniki Doc, Cartagena, Documenta, San Francisco, Antenna Doc, DMZ Doc
About:
An indigenous Colombian woman goes on a vital spiritual journey.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to The WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed tomorrow, Thursday, November 3:
KID CANDIDATE
Director:
Jasmine Stodel
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
Select Festivals:
San Francisco DocFest
About:
The story of Hayden Pedigo, a 24-year old experimental musician and his unlikely run for Amarillo city council after his Harmony Korine inspired spoof campaign video goes viral.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, November 2:
KILLER SALLY
Director:
Nanette Burstein
World Premiere:
Netflix (November 2022)
About:
Interviews with friends, family, and Sally McNeil herself chart a bodybuilding couple’s rocky marriage — and its shocking end in a Valentine’s Day murder.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID today, Tuesday, November 1:
MORONI FOR PRESIDENT
Directors:
Saila Huusko, Jasper Rischen
World Premiere:
Big Sky Doc 2018
Select Festivals:
Los Angeles, Frameline, Seattle Queer, DocuWest
About:
A gay ex-Mormon campaigns to lead the Navajo Nation.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 1:
LOVING HIGHSMITH
Director:
Eva Vitija
World Premiere:
Solothurner 2022
Select Festivals:
Locarno, Docaviv, Biografilm, Outfest, Provincetown, Sydney
About:
Her thrilling best-sellers were adapted into hit films, but in her previously unpublished private journals, Patricia Highsmith is revealed as a woman who had to keep her love for women out of sight and away from her family.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to Hulu tomorrow, Tuesday, November 1:
GOD FORBID: THE SEX SCANDAL THAT BROUGHT DOWN A DYNASTY
Director:
Billy Corben
World Premiere:
Hulu (November 2022)
About:
A Miami pool boy finds himself trapped in a seven-year affair with a charming older woman and her husband, the Evangelical Trump stalwart Jerry Falwell Jr, as he becomes increasingly entangled with the Falwell’s seemingly perfect lives.
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