Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, January 10:
THE RETURN OF TANYA TUCKER
Director:
Kathlyn Horan
World Premiere:
SXSW 2022
Select Festivals:
Telluride, Toronto, Nashville, Wodstock, Hot Springs Doc, Montclair, Chicago
About:
Rising star Brandi Carlile writes an album for her hero, trailblazing country music legend Tanya Tucker, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, January 10:
BEING THUNDER
Director:
Stéphanie Lamorré
World Premiere:
Inside Out 2021
Select Festivals:
Frameline, American Indian, NewFest
About:
Two-Spirit teenager Sherente lives at the intersections—sometimes clashing, sometimes harmonious—of several identities.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, January 10:
2ND CHANCE
Director:
Ramin Bahrani
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
SXSW, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Thessaloniki Doc, Santa Barbara, Tokyo, Nantucket
About:
An exploration of the rise and fall of Richard Davis, the charming and brash inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself 192 times to prove his product worked.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, January 10:
THE EXILES
Director:
Ben Klein, Violet Columbus
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
IDFA, San Francisco, Cleveland, Jeonju, Hot Docs, Bergen, Philadelphia, Taipei Golden Horse
About:
Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to PBS’s POV today, Monday, January 9:
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Director:
Reid Davenport
World Premiere:
Sundance 2022
Select Festivals:
True/False, San Francisco, Hot Docs, Sydney
About:
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on freakdom, (in)visibility, and the pursuit of individual agency.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
New to DVD this week:
DEAD MAN’S SWITCH: A CRYPTO MYSTERY
Director:
Sheona McDonald
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
DOXA, Melbourne Doc, Calgary, Rocky Mountain Women’s
About:
A riveting cryptocurrency thriller unraveling the story of a Canadian blockchain wizard who mysteriously died on his honeymoon in India and the fate of his investors’ $200 million.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to VOD this week:
UPHEAVAL: THE JOURNEY OF MENACHEM BEGIN
Director:
Jonathan Gruber
World Premiere:
Heartland 2020
Select Festivals:
Jewish fests in Las Vegas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, and Pittsburgh
About:
A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning former Israeli Prime Minister.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Discovery+ tomorrow, Thursday, January 5:
JANUARY 6TH
Director:
Jules Naudet, Gédéon Naudet
World Premiere:
Hamptons 2022
About:
An examination of the January 6 insurrection from the unique perspectives of the heroes, first responders, and survivors of the attack as they reveal their first-hand experience of the stand.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to DVD this week:
MARIAN ANDERSON: THE WHOLE WORLD IN HER HANDS
Director:
Rita Coburn
World Premiere:
American Masters broadcast (February 2022)
About:
A focus on the life, career, art, and legacy of the African American contralto and civil rights pioneer, in her own words.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Netflix tomorrow, Wednesday, January 4:
MADOFF: THE MONSTER OF WALL STREET
Director:
Joe Berlinger
World Premiere:
Netflix (January 2023)
About:
A docuseries following the rise and fall of financier Bernie Madoff, who orchestrated one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in Wall Street history.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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