documentary
Vincent Moon’s little planets
(Jan 09, 2013) Vincent Moon is the main director of La Blogothèque, a French collective blog. He is famous for his “Concerts à emporter” (...
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
(Oct 24, 2012) Where to start with Bad Brains: A Band in DC? A documentary about punk rock pioneers Bad Brains, a band formed in 1977 in Washing...
Jeff Harris: 4748 Self-Portraits And Counting
(Feb 07, 2012) As a new years resolution in 1999, Jeff Harris challenged himself to take a snap-shot of his life, everyday, for a year. Now 14 y...
Africa shafted: under one roof
(Dec 19, 2011) This month’s film at Atlas Studios first Wednesday film club concluded with the longest and most sincere round of applause ...
Shut Up Little Man!
(Oct 06, 2011) I’ve never been one for home-city pride, but if there’s one thing that San Francisco has over NY/LA/etc, it’s our never-endi...
The Accidental King of Kwaito
(Aug 17, 2011) Guardian journalist, Melissa Bradshaw’s article titled, “How Kwaito became a global force” has been the subjec...
Capturing the family
(Jul 24, 2011) Capturing the Friedmans is a documentary film I’ve recently watched. It focuses on the 80′s investigation of Arnol...
FashionY Movies Coming to Portland
(Jun 22, 2011) I wanted to write the post about the widely raved about Bill Cunningham: New York and how it is playing at Living Room Theater o...
Square Grouper: A New Documentary from Rakontur
(May 10, 2011) (image via rakontur.com) The 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys put Miami filmmakers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman (and their com...
Wszystko Plynie = Flowing
(Mar 15, 2011) Wszystko Plynie is a documentary made by young film-makers portraying the amazing Vistula River. Today, Vistula is a part of th...
On the Entertainment Value of Real vs. Scripted Emotion
(Dec 22, 2010) Usually when I turn a movie off halfway through it’s because it is complete and utter garbage or because I have something b...
HBO Docs Knock It Out of the Park
(Oct 22, 2010) HBO might not be TV, but it shouldn’t sell itself short when it produces movies — documentaries at least.The documentary ...
A Fishy Documentary
(Sep 29, 2010) A still from Catfish Catfish, the world’s first “reality thriller,” is about to hit a theater near you. The f...
Space: the B-Sides
(Sep 13, 2010) When We Left Earth popped up on my Netflix account at 4am this morning, and I was forced to stay up until well after sunrise fini...