Coming to MUBI today, Friday, April 29:
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 theatres tomorrow, Friday, April 29:
HELLO, BOOKSTORE
Director:
AB Zax
World Premiere:
Berkshire 2021
About:
In the shadow of the pandemic, a small town rallies to protect a beloved local bookstore.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, April 29:
THE WILL TO SEE
Director:
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Marc Roussel
World Premiere:
Rome 2021
Select Festivals:
New York Jewish
About:
Philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy bears witness to and reports from hotspots around the world disrupted by war and geopolitical disasters.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Film Movement Plus tomorrow, Friday, April 29:
OECONOMIA
Director:
Carmen Losmann
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Zurich, Cologne, Ji.hlava
About:
A multilayered quest to fathom the workings of the capitalist system.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres this Friday, April 29:
FIDDLER’S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN
Director:
Daniel Raim
World Premiere:
Palm Springs 2022 (cancelled)
Select Festivals:
Miami Jewish, Toronto Jewish, Atlanta Jewish, Seattle Jewish, Rehoboth Beach
About:
The story behind director Norman Jewison’s quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit FIDDLER ON THE ROOF as a wide-screen epic.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres in a new restoration this Friday, April 29:
THE WOBBLIES
Director:
Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer
World Premiere:
New York Film Festival 1979
About:
The story of radical labor union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), better known as the Wobblies, which championed the formation of “one big union” for all unskilled laborers, regardless of their race and gender.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Discovery+ tomorrow, Thursday, April 28:
DEAR MR BRODY
Director:
Keith Maitland
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2020 (unscreened)
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Telluride, SXSW, San Francisco Doc, Provincetown, Miami
About:
In 1970, eccentric hippie millionaire Michael Brody, Jr decided to give $25 million away to anyone who needed it, sparking a media frenzy and thousands of letters from strangers all requesting his help.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, April 27:
THE MYSTERY OF MARILYN MONROE: THE UNHEARD TAPES
Director:
Emma Cooper
World Premiere:
Netflix (April 2022)
About:
An exploration of the mystery surrounding the death of the movie icon, focused on previously unheard interviews conducted with her inner circle.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 26:
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT COSBY
Director:
W Kamau Bell
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
About:
Can you separate the art from the artist? Should you even try? While there are many people about whom we could ask those questions, none poses a tougher challenge than Bill Cosby.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, April 26:
WRITING WITH FIRE
Director:
Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Nantucket, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, RIDM, BlackStar, Guadalajara, DocsMX, Double Exposure, Sydney, Yamagata Doc, Ambulante, Denver, San Diego Asian, Hawaii, Bergen, San Francisco, Krakow, Seattle, Thessaloniki Doc, One World, Shanghai
Notable Recognition:
The doc was nominated for the Academy Awards.
About:
A chronicle of the trailblazing work of India’s only news outlet run by Dalit women–once known as “untouchable.”
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
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