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Five Questions: From Queens to Cairo Director Sherif Sadek
The Egyptian-American filmmaker Sherif Sadek couldn't be in Cairo as the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 got under way, but he made sure he was there a year later, with both his family and his Nikon D7000 DSLR in tow. The …
Sarah Polley on Secrets, Super 8, and Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell, which opens in New York this week, explores the Canadian actor/director’s family history in a style that melds documentary interviews with fictional home movie interludes. She mines the lives of her parents for melodrama, as …
At Sea with the Intense, Immersive Doc Leviathan
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan raises the bar for documentary filmmaking: it’s closer to 2001: A Space Odyssey than the typical non-fiction film. Shot with a variety of video cameras, including the extremely small GoPro, it depicts life onboard …
Kenny Stoff on Shooting Dave Grohl’s Sundance Doc Sound City
Housed in a pair of nondescript warehouse structures in Van Nuys, California, Sound City Studios hardly had the outward appearance of a rock and roll Mecca. Yet for 40 years, it served as the launching pad for some of the …
Academy Announces Documentary Shortlist
Following a controversy-fraught screening season in which members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) documentary branch waded through well over 100 DVD copies of eligible films, AMPAS has pared its for-your-consideration shortlist to just 15 titles. …
Green Day is back and ready to explain the methods behind their evolving musical style in a new documentary airing tonight on VH1 at midnight and on Palladia Friday, Nov. 30, at 9 p.m.
Directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon on The Central Park Five
Over the past decade, Ken Burns has become a polarizing figure in the documentary field, even as his PBS series have reached more viewers than any American documentarian besides Michael Moore. For many, his work has settled into a cozy …
PostWorks Re-Recording Mixer Christopher Koch on Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In
Just released in theaters, The House I Live In is Eugene Jarecki’s provocative new documentary on America’s war on drugs. A winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film mixes interviews with law enforcement …
Five Questions: “Saigon ’68″ Director Douglas Sloan
Documentarian Douglas Sloan strives to put a single moment frozen in time into a larger context in "Saigon ’68," a 15-minute short premiering this week at the DOC NYC festival in New York. It examines a notorious image from the …
This contemplative documentary by Mark Kendall profiles a watchmaker working in a quiet corner of New York City's Grand Central Terminal.