documentary
There are 9 entries for the tag documentary
Posted @ 3/2/2010 1:12 PM
Recent festival films look at “garbage people” communities in Egypt; John Sheedy traveled to Tijuana to show us the issue is alive closer to home.
What stands out in each of these documentaries is an obvious dichotomy of spirit. The viewer watches the fi...
Posted @ 2/26/2010 3:43 PM
"The Real Revolutionaries" precisely fulfills Cinequest's promise as a Silicon Valley film festival. Telling the story of technology's "Traitorous Eight," a.k.a. "The Fairchild Eight” – eight men who broke from Nobel prize-winning physicist William Shockl...
Posted @ 9/9/2009 6:38 AM
For hardcore fashionistas, the words "September issue" are like secret code-one that filmmaker R.J. Cutler does a pretty good job of cracking in his same-named documentary about the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine.
Posted @ 9/2/2009 3:25 AM
Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein's documentary on Colin Beavan's well-publicized attempt to live for one year without trash, plastic, electricity and most of the other items that make modern life "modern."
Posted @ 6/18/2009 2:47 PM
In a haunting, four-generation portrait of a family, the docu reveals the tragedy of the individuals' past and present choices in frank, sometimes surprisingly self-aware interviews.
Posted @ 6/18/2009 2:43 PM
A group of students in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans rehearses for the musical "Once on This Island," which is set in the Caribbean in the midst of a storm and shares many parallels with their upended lives.
Posted @ 4/17/2008 10:48 PM
A passionate portrait of the power of the African mother to force sons and brothers to disarm.
Posted @ 5/23/2007 4:11 AM
In Florida's Renfrew clinic, four women struggle with eating disorders.
Posted @ 3/23/2007 3:03 AM
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Sierra Leone, violence is caused by both rebels and international peacekeepers.