Gary Crowdus has the bearing of New York's film intelligentsia, and the credentials to support it. A graduate of New York University's Institute of
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If you are looking for documentary, there are worse places to go than Canada, where it is not a dirty word. This year, there were two good reasons to
British-born Nicholas Broomfield has been a part of some of the more interesting and controversial American and British documentaries of the past
Let me begin by stating the obvious: images in U.S. media—not just images of Black people, but all images—are highly influenced by the political
On January 17, 1989, Kodak introduced four extended range motion picture films at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles and
Nina Rosenblum's Female High Security Unit looks like it will be one of 1989's most important examples of the investigative documentary form. The
Marcel Ophuls' moral passion and cinematic methods have been renovating documentary film for over 20 years. From the renowned The Sorrow and the Pity
When I read Nicholas Webster 's article "How Robert Flaherty Changed My Life" ( International Documentary Winter/Spring 1988), I vividly remembered
Bruce Weber's latest film, Let's Get Lost , documents the low-life style of Chet Baker from young trumpet god of 1953 to the time-ravaged jazz foot
The organizers of the U.S. Film Festival in Park City, Utah, invited three distinguished filmmakers to come and critique documentary cinema. Jean-