Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, April 25:
CONTEMPORARY COLOR
Directors:
Bill Ross and Turner Ross
Premiere:
Tribeca 2016
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Hot Docs, New Orleans, San Francisco, Montclair, Seattle, Sydney, Bonnaroo, AFI Docs, Guanajuato, Melbourne, Sidewalk, Camden, Denver, St Louis, Indie Memphis, Sound Unseen
About:
A chronicle of a one-night-only musical collaboration conceived by David Byrne celebrating color guard.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, April 25:
MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI
Director:
Steven Okazaki
Premiere:
Venice 2015
Select Festivals:
Telluride, London, Kyoto, Mill Valley, Hawaii, Denver, AFI Fest, Taipei Golden Horse
About:
A tribute to the Japanese actor best known for his work with Akira Kurosawa.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, April 25:
WE ARE X
Director:
Stephen Kijak
Premiere:
Sundance 2016
Select Festivals:
SXSW, Vancouver, Seattle, BFI London, Shanghai, Guanajuato, IDFA
About:
A profile of Japanese super band X Japan and its charismatic frontman, Yoshiki X.
My pre-Sundance profile of the doc may be found here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Now on Netflix:
HOT GIRLS WANTED: TURNED ON
Directors:
Rashida Jones, Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus, Peter LoGreco, Sandra C Alvarez
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
About:
The online world of porn and its impact on real life is explored in this new Netflix docuseries.
I previously profiled the series before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to VOD today, Friday, April 21:
WATER & POWER: A CALIFORNIA HEIST
Director:
Marina Zenovich
Premiere:
Sundance 2017
Select Festivals:
Washington DC Environmental
About:
An investigation into the long-standing battle that’s being waged for control of the most precious of natural resources.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres and to VOD tomorrow, Friday, April 21:
CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY
Director:
Matt Tyrnauer
Premiere:
Toronto 2016
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Miami, CPH:DOX, Sarasota, Hong Kong
About:
In the 1960s, writer and activist Jane Jacobs faces off against NYC’s ruthless urban planner, Robert Moses.
With her acclaimed 1961 book, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES, Jane Jacobs challenged conventional wisdom about urban planning by foregrounding the diversity and complexity of the use of city spaces by the actual individuals and communities that resided within them. She took particular exception to the concept of urban renewal, seeing it as a destructive force which unnaturally segregated spaces, ignoring the organic manner in which these urban ecosystems had developed over generations. When Jacobs’ beloved NYC was threatened by Robert Moses with a widespread redevelopment plan which would see whole neighborhoods destroyed in order to install a highway through lower Manhattan, the activist showed the power of communities to rally together to save their homes, as detailed in Tyrnauer’s vibrant and topical chronicle, which doubles as a love letter to the city.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
New to DVD this week:
JOHN LEWIS: GET IN THE WAY
Director:
Kathleen Dowdey
Premiere:
DGA, Los Angeles (October 2015)
Select Festivals:
St Louis, Woodstock, Nashville International Black Festival, International Family Film Festival, numerous university and museum screenings
About:
A portrait of the civil rights pioneer and Georgia congressman.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 18:
BEFORE THE FLOOD
Director:
Fisher Stevens
Premiere:
Toronto 2016
Select Festivals:
BFI London, Hamptons
About:
Leonardo DiCaprio reflects on his environmental activism.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18: DON’T BLINK – ROBERT FRANK
Director:
Laura Israel
Premiere:
New York Film Festival 2015
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Palm Springs, Berlin, Portland, Hong Kong, Full Frame, IndieLisboa, Munich Dokfest, Provincetown, Jerusalem, Melbourne, London
About:
An impressionistic portrait of the pioneering documentary photographer and filmmaker.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18:
THE BABUSHKAS OF CHERNOBYL
Director:
Holly Morris
Premiere:
Los Angeles 2015
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Sidewalk, Woodstock, Sun Valley, One World, DC’s Environmental, Florida, San Francisco Green, DOXA, Documenta Madrid
About:
A profile of elderly women who subsist on their beloved but toxic land in Chernobyl’s radioactive exclusion zone.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
