Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow, Wednesday, December 1:
ADRIENNE
Director:
Andy Ostroy
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
About:
The death of acclaimed actress-filmmaker-screenwriter Adrienne Shelly sends her husband on a search for answers.
Category Archives: Releases
On TV & Streaming: ADRIENNE
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
On DVD: KEYBOARD FANTASIES: THE BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND STORY
Coming to DVD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 30:
KEYBOARD FANTASIES: THE BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND STORY
Director:
Posy Dixon
World Premiere:
Doc’n Roll 2019
Select Festivals:
New Orleans, Frameline, Indielisboa, Melbourne Doc, Thessaloniki Doc, BFI Flare, Calgary Underground
About:
After three decades of releasing album after album in relative obscurity, a Black transgender trailblazing musician finally finds success at the age of 74.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Streaming: 14 PEAKS: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
Coming to Netflix today, Monday, November 29:
14 PEAKS: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
Director:
Torquil Jones
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2021
About:
In 2019, Nepalese mountain climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja set out to do the unthinkable by climbing the world’s fourteen highest summits in less than seven months.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
On TV & Streaming: LIFE OF CRIME 1984-2020
Coming to HBO and HBO Max tomorrow Tuesday, November 30:
LIFE OF CRIME 1984-2020
Director:
Jon Alpert
World Premiere:
Venice 2021
About:
Over a thirty-six year period, this film follows Rob, Freddie, and Deliris on a relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey’s largest city.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
On TV: CUSP
Coming to Showtime today, Friday, November 26:
CUSP
Director:
Parker Hill, Isabel Bethencourt
World Premiere:
Sundance 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Camden, AFI Docs, Stockholm
About:
An intimate chronicle of the lives of three teenage girls in a Texas military town.
I previously wrote about the doc before Sundance here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Film Festivals, Recommendations, Releases, Sundance
Streaming: BURNING
Coming to Amazon Prime Video today, Friday, November 26:
BURNING
Director:
Eva Orner
World Premiere:
Toronto 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Sydney, Heartland, Hot Springs Doc
About:
A look at the devastating fires in Australia and the lack of political will to address climate change.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
In Theatres & On VOD: LADY BUDS
Coming to theatres and VOD today, Friday, November 26:
LADY BUDS
Director:
Chris J Russo
World Premiere:
Hot Docs 2021
Select Festivals:
DOC NYC, Outfest, Mill Valley, Seattle Queer, Denver, Docs Mx
About:
From a Latinx LGBTQ activist to a Black Catholic school principal, six small businesswomen hit California’s newly legal cannabis trade, but struggle as aggressive regulations upend the market.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
In Theatres: WRITING WITH FIRE
Coming to theatres today, Friday, November 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
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
Streaming: THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT
Coming to MUBI tomorrow, Friday, November 26:
THE WITCHES OF THE ORIENT
Director:
Julien Faraut
World Premiere:
Rotterdam 2021
Select Festivals:
Documentary Fortnight, Jeonju, Midnight Sun
About:
United by their jobs in a textile factory, a Japanese women’s volleyball team chases absolute perfection—and finds international superstardom—representing postwar Japan on the 1964 Olympic stage.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
In Theatres: LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE & TIMES OF BEN FONG-TORRES
Coming to theatres tomorrow, Friday, November 26:
LIKE A ROLLING STONE: THE LIFE & TIMES OF BEN FONG-TORRES
Director:
Suzanne Joe Kai
World Premiere:
Tribeca 2021
Select Festivals:
Los Angeles Asian Pacific, San Diego Asian, Heartland
About:
An intimate profile of the Rolling Stone writer and editor, who defined the cultural zeitgeist of the 1960s and ’70s.
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