New to DVD this week:
MLK/FBI
Director:
Sam Pollard
World Premiere:
Toronto 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, New York, Chicago, IDFA
About:
An exposé of the FBI’s adversarial relationship to the Civil Rights leader.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to PBS’s American Masters today, Tuesday, January 11:
AILEY
Director:
Jamila Wignot
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
CPH:DOX, Tribeca, Frameline, Provincetown, Thessaloniki Doc
About:
A revealing, moving portrait of pioneering choreographer Alvin Ailey.
I profiled the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to theatres and VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, January 11:
MAXIMA
Director:
Claudia Sparrow
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2019
Select Festivals:
IDFA, Palm Springs, Human Rights Watch, Slamdance
About:
An indigenous Peruvian woman faces off against a mining corporation.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, January 7:
EXPEDITION CONTENT
Director:
Ernst Karel, Veronika Kusumaryat
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
Camden, Art of the Real, Cinema du Reel, Open City Doc
About:
An exploration of ethnography through an audio record of a 1961 encounter with an indigenous people in West New Guinea.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Wednesday, January 5:
MAURICE HINES: BRING THEM BACK
Director:
John Carluccio
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2019
Select Festivals:
American Black, Barcelona LGBT
About:
A portrait of the Broadway song-and-dance man.
The film screened as part of DOC NYC, for which our program notes read:
John Carluccio’s film is a portrait of the charismatic song-and-dance man from his tap-dancing childhood to today. Maurice and friends—Chita Rivera, Mercedes Ellington, and Debbie Allen—tell tales from his seven-decade career, including Broadway shows, Hollywood films like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club, and about his loving yet difficult relationship with superstar brother Gregory Hines. Ever battling the challenges of being a gay, black man in showbiz, Maurice shares his story with humor and grace.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, January 4:
A.RTIFICIAL I.MMORTALITY
Director:
Ann Shin
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
Busan, Warsaw, San Diego Asian, DocEdge, Imagine Science, Calgary
About:
If computers could let you live forever, would you?
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to DVD this week:
CLERK
Director:
Malcolm Ingram
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
Select Festivals:
Philadelphia
About:
The life and career of filmmaker Kevin Smith.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
New to DVD this week:
FOR AHKEEM
Directors:
Jeremy S Levine and Landon Van Soest
Premiere:
Berlin 2017
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Sheffield, AFI Docs, Florida, Montclair, Documentary Edge, DOK.fest Munich, DMZ Docs, Message to Man, Milwaukee, Antenna
About:
An African-American teenage girl strives to graduate from high school.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, December 28:
TRY HARDER!
Director:
Debbie Lum
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
Nantucket, AFI Docs, Full Frame, CAAMFest, Milwaukee, Provincetown, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Philadelphia, Virginia
About:
The graduating class of a competitive San Francisco High School is followed through its harrowing college application process.
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to PBS’s POV today, Monday, December 27:
UNAPOLOGETIC
Director:
Ashley O’Shay
World Premiere:
BlackStar 2020
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, New Orleans, Black Harvest, St Louis, Cucalorus, Big Sky Doc, Athena, Cleveland, Human Rights Watch, Outfest Fusion
About:
Two fierce abolitionist leaders offer a deep look into the movement for Black Lives.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
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