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Famed Cinematographers and Hungarian Emigres Subject of New Documentary
by George Butler In late 1974, I published a book, with writer Charles Gaines, called Pumping Iron: The Art of Bodybuilding. I thought this could be a
Terry Zwigoff's Crumb by John Anderson Proof that cranky, banjo-playing misanthropes can be movie heroes, Crumb (1994) is a perfect synthesis of
Jeffrey Blitz's Spellbound Your heart completely goes out to the eight young competitors in Spellbound (2002); it really does. They're so filled with
One overlooked, but quite crucial element in a documentary, is its music. A well-crafted score can make a difference in the shape, mood, pacing
In this history-making US Presidential election, in which the politics of division and fear were laid low by a grassroots-and-Internet juggernaut of
It read like a Hollywood script. One day, an unassuming black teenager is picked up off the streets of Winston-Salem, North Carolina by policemen