Coming to theatres today, Friday, September 30:
ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES
Director:
Alysa Nahmias
World Premiere:
Heartland 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, RiverRun, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Bentonville, Denver, Big Sky Doc, Fargo, Oxford, Salem, Berkshire
About:
While locked up for six years in federal prison, artist Jesse Krimes secretly creates monumental works of art, smuggling them out in pieces and seeing the final product only when he’s released.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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
Coming to theatres and virtual cinemas this Friday, September 30:
INHOSPITABLE
Director:
Sandra Alvarez
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
Select Festivals:
Miami
About:
Patients and activists band together to fight a multi-billion dollar nonprofit hospital system that limits vital care for vulnerable patients.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tonight, Wednesday, September 28:
HOSTAGES
Director:
Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre, Joshua Bennett, Abbas Motlagh, Sam Pollard
World Premiere:
HBO broadcast (September 2022)
About:
A four-part docuseries on the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, focusing on both the experiences of those involved, as well as an historical chronicle of the tangled web of US/Iran relations in the decades leading up to the Iranian Revolution.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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 DVD today, Tuesday, September 27:
THE YOUTH GOVERNOR
Director:
Matt Halmy, Jaron Halmy
World Premiere:
Cleveland 2022
About:
In the halls of California’s Capitol, 4,000 teenagers run a fully functioning government complete
with legislators, party bosses, and elections, with three candidates emerging in the
race for the 72nd Youth Governor.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres in re-release today, Tuesday, September 27:
ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL
Director:
Sacha Gervasi
World Premiere:
Sundance 2008
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Chicago, Bergen, Biografilm, Docville, Göteborg, Helsinki, San Francisco Jewish
About:
An influential but obscure Canadian 1980s metal band attempts to mount a comeback and finally get their long-deserved due.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Releases, Sundance
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Tuesday, September 27:
SEARCHING FOR INGMAR BERGMAN
Director:
Margarethe von Trotta
Premiere:
Cannes 2018
Select Festivals:
Toronto, New York, Karlovy Vary, Hong Kong, Reykjavik
About:
An appreciation of the legendary Swedish filmmaker.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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