Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, September 16:
MOONAGE DAYDREAM
Director:
Brett Morgen
World Premiere:
Cannes 2022
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Deauville, Jerusalem
About:
An artful and life-affirming journey through David Bowie’s creative life, grappling with spirituality, transience, isolation, creativity, and time to reveal the celebrated icon in his own voice.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Thursday, September 15:
WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC
Director:
Gio Arlotta
World Premiere:
Indielisboa 2019
Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, Warsaw, Doc’n Roll, One World
About:
An exploration of the history of Zambia’s most popular rock band in the 1970s, WITCH, and the fate of its vocalist, Jagari.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Ovid tomorrow, Thursday, September 15:
SEX AND BROADCASTING: A FILM ABOUT WFMU
Director:
Tim K Smith
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2014
Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, Salem, Montclair
About:
A portrait of a maverick radio station.
I previously wrote about the film for DOC NYC’s program, saying:
New Jersey’s WFMU has occupied a unique position as an independent, commercial-free, listener-supported radio station since its inception in the late 1950s. At its heart is the dedicated station manager Ken Freedman, committed to an unstructured, free-form broadcasting model which has won WFMU acclaim as the best – and perhaps weirdest – radio station in the tristate area, if not the country. Facing a budget crisis, can Ken rally both his volunteer staff and his listeners to keep the station afloat?
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
New to DVD this week:
BLOOM UP: A SWINGER COUPLE STORY
Director:
Mauro Russo Rouge
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
Biografilm, Mallorca
About:
An average middle-aged Italian couple by day, Hermes and Betta live out their unbridled sexual fantasies as swingers by night.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to NYC’s Anthology Film Archives tomorrow, Thursday, September 15:
TERRA FEMME
Director:
Courtney Stephens
World Premiere:
MoMA Doc Fortnight 2021
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs, RIDM, DokuFest, Camden, Open City Docs, Sydney Underground, Indielisboa, Docaviv
About:
Archival material and home movies from the 1920s to the 1940s reveal the emancipatory power women found in newly available personal cameras, and the association this self-expression had with gender roles, the rise of a leisured, white middle class, and imperialism.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Peacock today, Wednesday, September 14:
HELL OF A CRUISE
Director:
Nick Quested
World Premiere:
Peacock (September 2022)
About:
An exploration of the spread of COVID aboard a luxury Diamond Princess cruise ship in January 2020, and why, one week later, cruise ships were still sent out to sea.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, September 13:
UNSEEN SKIES
Director:
Yaara Bou Melhem
World Premiere:
San Francisco 2021
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Sydney, Docs Against Gravity
About:
American artist Trevor Paglen, who uses the most advanced technology to map surveillance, data flows, and the state’s monitoring of our lives, is about to launch the most ambitious project of his career.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, September 13:
WE ARE THE THOUSAND
Director:
Anita Rivaroli
World Premiere:
SXSW 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs, Melbourne, Docs Against Gravity, Thessaloniki Doc
About:
An uplifting, inspiring, and emotional music documentary about a seemingly impossible plan to record a song by the Foo Fighters with a thousand musicians.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, September 13:
FUTURA
Director:
Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
Select Festivals:
Toronto, New York, IDFA, Vienna
About:
A collective exploration of what youth think about the future, through a series of interviews filmed during a long journey across Italy.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, September 13:
HOLD YOUR FIRE
Director:
Stefan Forbes
World Premiere:
Toronto 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Palm Springs
About:
Captives, cops, and robbers in New York City’s longest hostage siege reflect in this suspenseful and enlightening take on an event long misunderstood.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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