Coming to VOD today, Friday, January 13:
LOUDMOUTH
Director:
Josh Alexander
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2022
About:
A disruptive spotlight on Reverend Al Sharpton – the pastoral prodigy turned political firebrand turned media establishment figure.
Category Archives: Releases
On VOD: LOUDMOUTH
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Streaming: FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Friday, January 13:
FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG
Director:
Mark Rappaport
World Premiere:
Toronto 1995
Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, Thessaloniki, Karlovy Vary, Cleveland
About:
Ill-fated actress Jean Seberg – portrayed by Mary Beth Hurt – reflects on her life as illustrated through her work in this creative exploration of film history and women’s place within it.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Streaming: ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Friday, January 13:
ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES
Director:
Mark Rappaport
World Premiere:
NYC theatrical release (June 1992)
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Thessaloniki, Busan
About:
A subversive essay film exploring the queer subtext in the oeuvre of the publicly closeted Hollywood icon.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Streaming: GAY USA
Coming to OVID today, Wednesday, January 11:
GAY USA
Director:
Arthur J Bressan Jr
World Premiere:
San Francisco theatrical release (1977)
About:
The first American feature-length documentary by and about LGBTQ+ people mobilized camera crews across the country to document the national Gay Freedom Day marches in June of 1977, conveying the passion, anger, and defiant optimism of a community under attack.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Streaming: BORN IN EVIN
New to OVID this week:
BORN IN EVIN
Director:
Maryam Zaree
World Premiere:
Berlin 2019
Select Festivals:
Hot Docs, IDFA, Sarajevo, Morelia, Biografilm, Human Rights Watch NYC, Cologne, Heartland
About:
A personal film investigating the filmmaker’s birth in an Iranian prison for dissidents.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On DVD: THE RETURN OF TANYA TUCKER
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, January 10:
THE RETURN OF TANYA TUCKER
Director:
Kathlyn Horan
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
Select Festivals:
Telluride, Toronto, Nashville, Wodstock, Hot Springs Doc, Montclair, Chicago
About:
Rising star Brandi Carlile writes an album for her hero, trailblazing country music legend Tanya Tucker, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On DVD: BEING THUNDER
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, January 10:
BEING THUNDER
Director:
Stéphanie Lamorré
World Premiere:
Inside Out 2021
Select Festivals:
Frameline, American Indian, NewFest
About:
Two-Spirit teenager Sherente lives at the intersections—sometimes clashing, sometimes harmonious—of several identities.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
On VOD: 2ND CHANCE
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, January 10:
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
On VOD: THE EXILES
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, January 10:
THE EXILES
Director:
Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
IDFA, San Francisco, Cleveland, Jeonju, Hot Docs, Bergen, Philadelphia, Taipei Golden Horse
About:
Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
On TV: I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Coming to PBS’s POV today, Monday, January 9:
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
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