Feels Good Man – Guild cinematographer Guy Mossman, who lensed Sundance audience favorite Buck and Bending the Arc, returns to Park City with a documentary feature about Matt Furie, the creator behind the indie comic…
2020 Sundance Film Festival announces packed lineup including documentaries centred around the singer and the notorious meme. In Feels Good Man, director Arthur Jones will explore Pepe the Frog’s creator,…
Why Is This Happening Podcast: Documenting our real estate obsession with Giorgio Angelini. Chris Hayes talks with filmmaker Giorgio Angelini about his visually stunning new documentary, “Owned: A Tale of…
This energetic film unpacks the complex history of home ownership in America to reveal the postwar housing economy’s racist underpinnings—the creation of a large middle class simultaneous with the systematic…
Netflix’s new documentary about the British blues singer doesn’t dive deep into the psyche of a man who is mostly remembered for his much-mocked stage antics. But John Edginton’s film,…
The incredible evolution of their story is presented through a riveting mix of talking-head interviews, archival footage, and vérité footage . . . more here.
“Two Trains Runnin’,” Sam Pollard’s compact, resonant documentary — part essay film, part road picture, part musical anthology — is built around an astonishing historical coincidence. On June 21, 1964,…
“I fell in love with filmmaking later in life. I grew up watching narrative features, foreign films, and music videos like many in my generation. It wasn’t until I first saw…
Feelings of superiority and gawking are both staples of unscripted TV, and Bravo has successfully wedded them in “Extreme Guide to Parenting.” Basically, the series brings the voyeurism of “Hoarders”…
In Westchester, N.Y., Shira Adler’s 10-year-old son Yonah screams, “I f**king hate you!” She responds calmly by spritzing his “aura” with one of her specialty aromatherapy sprays, and then begins…
DP Guy Mossman (“Buck,” “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work“) gives every element its due; the clamor, the quiet, the details of décor and decoration, the richness of the landscape, the…
We normally had two cameras operating at all times and an additional added for the games. We were very fortunate to have worked with a great documentary DP, Guy Mossman…
As the United States wrestles with a demographic shift set in motion by the fast-growing Latino population, a small North Carolina town could offer the country a glimpse of what…
A revealing new documentary, “To Light a Candle”, made by Iran’s award winning filmmaker and journalist Maziar Bahari is a turning point in addressing the circumstance of Baha’is in Iran. It unveils decades…
Having had the good fortune to attend a high school with a vital arts program, I am a sucker for documentaries about the transformative power of arts and humanities education….
“Glee” without the contrivance, the tokenism or the choreographed karaoke: that’s one way of looking at “Mariachi High,” which leads off the PBS Arts summer documentary series on Friday night. Any suspicion that the…
“Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” covers the events in about a year of her life. If the filmmakers didn’t have total access, I don’t want to see what they…
That’s dizzy, fizzy talk, and while Ms. Meehl is transparently taken with Mr. Brannaman, she does try to put him on terra firma. Working with the cinematographers Guy Mossman and…
The images — both beautiful and evocative — are culled from more than 300 hours of footage, much of it shot over two years by cinematographers Guy Mossman (“Sex Crimes…
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s sexual assault case has shoved Manhattan’s sex-crimes prosecutors under a microscope, but they were already getting ready for their close-up. Shot well before the former International Monetary Fund…
