The body beautiful meets the body besieged Leni Riefenstahl and Fred Wiseman, though rarely grouped together, are in a category apart from most documentary filmmakers in that they both used[…]
Activist & Political · Directors · Documentaries · Reviews
On Dream Girls, The Day I Will Never Forget, Divorce Iranian Style, Shinjuku Boys, Gaea Girls, and Runaway The combination of reality TV and George W. Bush’s ascendancy (one wants[…]
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
“I’m bad, but I’m locked up.” When we think about how society reinforces its laws, we usually think of law enforcement agencies doing what they’re contracted to do in protecting[…]
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Experimental & Underground
Navigating a haunted, and haunting, world In 1994, film historian and programmer Jenni Olson’s friend Mark Finch, a critic who was co-director with Olson of the San Francisco International Lesbian[…]
Documentaries · Music & Musicals · Reviews
“You start having to wash two times a day and grow hair in weird places.” “I like moving my hips, a lot!” That’s one preteen girl enthusing about the pleasures[…]
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
“The governments will be forgotten but the masterpieces will remain.”
Documentaries · Exploitation & Erotica
“Going on stage would’ve been awfully redundant”
“It had something to do with my sexual intercourse”
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Corporations, go to the head of the line; everyone else, wait
In which Welles deflates expectations of greatness and transcends them
Activist & Political · Documentaries
Spurlock’s no Sherlock
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
Pay attention to that man behind the curtain
African American · Documentaries · Music & Musicals
Making up reality: race, rock, and wrestling
Documentaries · Music & Musicals
“We accept you, we accept you, gibble gobble, gibble gobble…”
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Writers & Critics
“I was just doing my job.”
A son looks at a father and sees much more in this superb doc
Documentaries · Film Technology & History
“See it without glasses!”
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer · Uncategorized
Reality cinema celebrates homos of this year and yesteryear
The ills of this wounded Everyman may be beyond healing.
