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Experience Sundance 2012: The Wall, Fried Chicken, and Goodbyes
No matter how much fun a festival is, there inevitably comes a time when a festival-goer reaches a wall, a point where exhaustion and stress and bad food and frustrations all settle in and refuse to...
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Sundance 2012 Review: Fascinating ‘Queen of Versailles’ Gives Weight and...
Documentary director Lauren Greenfield (Thin) returned to Sundance with another fascinating slice of American life – the winner of this year’s U.S. Directing Award for Documentary features, The Queen...
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LAFF 2012 Announces Full Line-Up, Including ‘Magic Mike,’‘People Like Us,’...
Gird your loins, Los Angeles, the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival is coming, and this time, the fest is bringing strippers with them. Lots and lots of (cinematic) strippers. The festival has already...
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LAFF 2012 Review: ‘The Queen of Versailles’ Is Low on Cash, But Has a Surplus...
Before screening The Queen of Versailles at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, the film’s director (Lauren Greenfield) described the film as a story about dreams and what it means to strive for,...
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‘Searching for Sugar Man’ is the First Guaranteed Lock for an Oscar Nomination
One of the most difficult Oscar categories for pundits (let alone regular folk) to predict is the one for feature documentary. And this year more than ever it’s going to be hard to pick the five...
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Festival Favorites Lead IDA Awards Nominations, Including ‘The Invisible War’...
As October slowly winds to a close, the air turns crisper, the leaves go red(der?), and the mailboxes of film critics everywhere find themselves stuffed quite fuller, as we enter into (drum roll,...
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Dear Hollywood Reporter: Women Also Made Movies This Year
One of the highlights of the Oscar season is the series of round table discussions produced by The Hollywood Reporter, and for good reason. We spend much of the fall and winter comparing drastically...
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Year in Review: The 12 Best Documentaries of 2012
2012′s best documentaries understand people. It’s as simple as that. They include beautiful character portraits, from group pictures like Indie Game: The Movie and El Gusto to individual pieces like...
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Catching Up With the Financially-Challenged Stars of ‘The Queen of Versailles’
It seems strange to fondly reminiscence about Lauren Greenfield’s fascinating documentary The Queen of Versailles on the verge of another potential American economic collapse, but the filmmaker’s...
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How Music Makes a Documentary Work
All Things Must Pass Documentaries have become some of the movie industry’s most compelling and emotional films. They not only shine a light on important issues and people, but they do so in a way that...
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