Coming to Showtime today, Wednesday, December 8:
DIRTY TRICKS
Director:
Daniel Sivan
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
About:
When the best player in the elite competitive level of the card game bridge—a million-dollar cut-throat business—is accused of cheating, the ensuing scandal confounds experts, criminal science, celebrities, and basic belief in this hilarious true-crime thriller.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres and to virtual cinema this Friday, December 10:
LAST AND FIRST MEN
Director:
Jóhann Jóhannsson
World Premiere:
Berlin 2020
Select Festivals:
Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Bucheon Fantastic, Beijing, Indielisboa, Fajr
About:
A hybrid docufiction about the final days of humankind.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO & HBO Max this Thursday, December 9:
MR SATURDAY NIGHT
Director:
John Maggio
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
About:
The untold story of Robert Stigwood, the impresario behind SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER and its record-breaking disco soundtrack.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to OVID.tv today, Tuesday, December 7:
ALL ABOUT MY SISTERS
Director:
Wang Qiong
World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2021
Select Festivals:
New York Film Festival, Hamburg, BFI London, San Diego Asian
About:
An intimate, deeply felt portrait of Jin and her family filmed by her sister.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO & HBO Max tomorrow, Tuesday, December 7:
THE SLOW HUSTLE
Director:
Sonja Sohn
World Premiere:
AFI Docs 2021
About:
After Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter is shot and found dead while on duty, the tragedy soon becomes enmeshed in a widening corruption scandal that threatens to unravel the public’s already strained relationship with law enforcement.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to HBO & HBO Max today, Monday, December 6:
THE FOREVER PRISONER
Director:
Alex Gibney
World Premiere:
HBO/HBO Max (Dec 2021)
About:
The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs), later identified as torture by those outside the agency.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Hulu this Sunday, December 5:
THE FIRST WAVE
Director:
Matthew Heineman
World Premiere:
Hamptons 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, BFI London, Busan, Hot Springs Doc, Philadelphia, Montclair, Savannah, AFI Fest
About:
A powerful look at the doctors, nurses, and patients on the frontlines during the “first wave” of COVID-19 in New York City from March to June 2020.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 3:
TORN
Director:
Max Lowe
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
Camden
About:
Seventeen years after his death, the body of the director’s famed mountain climber father is discovered, and the family sets out to recover it.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, December 3:
FLEE
Director:
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Telluride, Toronto, New York, Karlovy Vary, Visions du Reel, ZagrebDox, Camden, Docs Against Gravity, Jerusalem, Melbourne, Göteborg, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Nordisk Panorama, Zurich, Busan, Reykjavik, El Gouna
About:
The affecting story of a former refugee who must confront the traumas of his past to move forward with his life.
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Coming to Disney+ tomorrow, Friday, December 3:
THE RESCUE
Director:
Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Mill Valley, Los Angeles Asian Pacific, Hot Springs Doc, Hamptons
About:
The harrowing tale of the rescue attempts of a group of 12 teenage athletes and their coach, who became stranded deep underground, as rapidly rising water filled a labyrinthine network of caves they were exploring
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
what (not) to doc 