Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Saturday, August 13:
THE PRINCESS
Director:
Ed Perkins
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
Biografilm
About:
Princess Diana’s story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive, creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death, illuminating the profound impact she had, and demonstrating how the public’s attitude to the monarchy was, and still is, shaped by these events.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres today, Friday, August 12:
FREE CHOL SOO LEE
Director:
Julie Ha, Eugene Yi
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
BAMcinemaFest, Santa Barbara, Milwaukee, CAAMFest, Los Angeles, Asian Pacific, Asian American fests in New York, Seattle, San Diego, Denver, Chicago, Austin
About:
After a Korean immigrant is wrongly convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder, Asian Americans unite as never before to free Chol Soo Lee.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Topic today, Thursday, August 11:
SKID ROW MARATHON
Director:
Mark Hayes
World Premiere:
Santa Barbara 2017
Select Festivals:
Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Big Sky Doc, Napa Valley, Salem, Ashland, Woods Hole, Heartland, Boulder
About:
A Los Angeles superior court judge begins a running club to help motivate marginalized people on Skid Row.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, August 12:
EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO
Director:
Kiro Russo
World Premiere:
Venice 2021
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, New York, Rotterdam, San Sebastián, Hamburg, Gent, Vienna, Geneva, Göteborg
About:
A supernatural hybrid of dream and reality, in which a miner in an oxygen-starved metropolis is haunted by nightmares and a shamanistic ritual is the only way out.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Thursday, August 11:
BAATO
Director:
Kate Stryker, Lucas Millard
World Premiere:
Big Sky Doc 2020
Select Festivals:
Woods Hole, Mountainfilm, Austin, Princeton Environmental
About:
A Nepalese family takes a long trek by foot to sell local items in urban markets.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, August 12:
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 theatres this Friday, August 12:
LE TEMPS PERDU
Director:
Maria Alvarez
World Premiere:
IDFA 2020
Select Festivals:
Docaviv, Sydney, Doclisboa
About:
At a cafe in Buenos Aires, a group of aging Marcel Proust fans have been getting together for years to read IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, the author’s seven-part classic novel.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Thursday, August 11:
WE ARE AS GODS
Director:
Jason Sussberg, David Alvarado
World Premiere:
SXSW 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, SXSW 2021, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Poland’s American Festival
About:
Stewart Brand, legendary pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism, now urges people to use our god-like powers to fight extinction by reviving lost species.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID tomorrow, Thursday, August 11:
TO A MORE PERFECT UNION: US V WINDSOR
Director:
Donna Zaccaro
World Premiere:
Woodstock 2017
Select Festivals:
Nashville, Rocky Mountain Women’s, Inside Out, LGBT fests in Boston and Miami
About:
The decades-long love between a lesbian couple serves to revisit the story of marriage equality in the US.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, August 9:
JAZZ FEST: A NEW ORLEANS STORY
Director:
Frank Marshall, Ryan Suffern
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
About:
A soulful and heartfelt celebration of 50 years of the funky and fabulous New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the unique culture of the southern city.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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