Coming to Disney+ beginning tomorrow, Thursday, November 25:
THE BEATLES: GET BACK
Director:
Peter Jackson
World Premiere:
Disney+ (November 2021)
About:
This three-part docuseries covers the making of the Beatles’ 1970 album LET IT BE, drawing from never-released footage shot in-studio for the album’s accompanying documentary feature.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Disney+ today, Wednesday, November 24:
BECOMING COUSTEAU
Director:
Liz Garbus
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
Toronto, Hamptons, Camden, BFI London, Mill Valley, Rome
About:
A portrait of the visionary explorer, activist and TV host.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 23:
DEEP BLUES (1991)
Director:
Robert Mugge
Select Festivals:
Sundance
About:
A journey deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta, exploring the rich musical history and vibrant contemporary performers of the region.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD today, Tuesday, November 23:
THE VILLAGE DETECTIVE: A SONG CYCLE
Director:
Bill Morrison
World Premiere:
Moscow 2021
Select Festivals:
Rotterdam, Telluride, Melbourne, New Horizonz
About:
A Soviet film from 1969 is found in an Icelandic fisherman’s net, and the filmography of its leading actor offers a portal into a history that has endured on celluloid.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to DVD today, Tuesday, November 23:
CITIZEN HEARST
Director:
Amanda Pollak, Stephen Ives
World Premiere:
PBS broadcast (September 2021)
About:
An exploration of the life and career of the influential media mogul who inspired Orson Welles and Herman J Mankiewicz’s CITIZEN KANE.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to Showtime tonight, Monday, November 22:
JFK REVISITED: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Director:
Oliver Stone
World Premiere:
Cannes 2021
About:
Thirty years after his film JFK, the filmmaker examines recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
Coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 23:
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
Coming to PBS’s Independent Lens today, Monday, November 22:
DUTY FREE
Director:
Sian-Pierre Regis
World Premiere:
DOC NYC 2020
Select Festivals:
Big Sky, Miami, ACT Human Rights
About:
As his recently laid off mother struggles to find a new job at the age of 75, the filmmaker celebrates her lifetime of self-sacrifice.
I previously wrote about the doc here.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to CNN tomorrow, Saturday, November 20:
THE HUNT FOR PLANET B
Director:
Nathaniel Kahn
World Premiere:
SXSW 2021
About:
A behind-the-scenes look at NASA’s high-stakes James Webb Space Telescope, following a pioneering group of scientists—many of them women—on their quest to find another Earth among the stars.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Recommendations, Releases
Coming to theatres today, Friday, November 19:
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Director:
James Spinney, Peter Middleton
World Premiere:
Telluride 2021
Select Festivals:
BFI London, Camden, Zurich, Hamptons, AFI Fest
About:
The definitive story of cinema’s most iconic figure, from an impoverished childhood in London through a spectacular rise to fame, and onto the Hollywood limelight and a self-imposed exile.
Filed under Documentary, Film, Releases
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