July 28, 2021 Alvin Ailey Documentary: A Humanistic Portrait of a Godlike Man The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is celebrated not only as America's “cultural ambassador to the world” but for its wide array of jaw-dropping Read more
November 25, 2020 Alex Winter on Decrypting Frank Zappa Alex Winter has worn many hats in his 55 years. As a youth, he acted on Broadway. After college, he headed out to Los Angeles, where he continued to Read more
June 9, 2020 ‘Home’ Takes You to Homes Around the World Apple TV+ recently premiered Home , a new docuseries about nine of the world’s most innovative abodes. The series was set to debut at SXSW in March, Read more
May 21, 2020 Doc Star of the Month: Barbora Kysilkova, 'The Painter and the Thief' One of the stranger stranger-than-fiction sagas to premiere at Sundance (where it picked up a Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling) in Read more
November 27, 2019 Peeking Behind the Magic: Leslie Iwerks' 'The Imagineering Story' Creating happiness is hard work. Making something beautiful that brings joy to many, in reality entails, perhaps not blood, but certainly a lot of Read more
November 12, 2019 Archives as Alter Ego: The Inventiveness of Kim Longinotto's 'Shooting the Mafia' Imagine this: You’ve got a great subject who’s now in her 80s. You want to tell her life story—how she left her stifling marriage at age 40 and Read more
July 5, 2019 'Marianne and Leonard': A Half-Century of Love Nick Broomfield’s latest documentary, Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love , explores the complicated and decades-long love story between legendary Read more
January 8, 2019 Fall Perennials Thrive: Mill Valley Film Festival, Doc Stories, UNAFF Autumn has passed into winter in the San Francisco Bay Area. We notice this when it starts raining, but also when loads of documentaries slow to a Read more
July 16, 2018 'Come Inside My Mind' Taps into the Genius of Robin Williams Marina Zenovich is a documentary filmmaker known for her sensitive handling of the life stories of high-profile—some might say, controversial— Read more
June 6, 2018 In the Neighborhood: The World of Mister Rogers "For somebody who went on television 50 years ago, and who's been dead for 15 years, I feel like it's the most contemporary subject I've ever worked Read more