August 12, 2020
Japanese director Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad stands as a seminal achievement in documentary films about sports, right up there with Leni
Docs on Disc
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January 31, 2019Three Films by Raymond Depardon Released by Icarus Films 2018 3-Disc Boxed Set Featuring 12 Days / 87 minutes, 2017 /French w/English subtitles,
April 18, 2018On February 18, 2004, I received a phone call from the Musée de l’Homme in Paris informing me that Jean Rouch had died unexpectedly in an automobile
May 17, 2017Once, when asked about the contributions of the filmmaker Shirley Clarke to the evolution of film as an art form, my mind drew a blank. I made a
March 30, 2016Why has A Poem Is a Naked Person , a film Les Blank considered the greatest he ever made, remained virtually unknown and unseen, until now, over 40
January 21, 2016Moana With Sound , 1926/1980, B&W, 98 min. by Robert J. Flaherty, Frances Hubbard Flaherty and Monica Flaherty Released by Kino Classics, 2015
January 20, 2016Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967) By DA Pennebaker Released by The Criterion Collection, November 2015 Blu-Ray/2-DVD Box Set Dont Look Back tied Man
October 27, 2015Patricio Guzmán: A Country's Journey, Five Films Released by Icarus Films, September 2015 8-DVD Boxed Set Includes: Battle of Chile: Part One , 1975
October 13, 2015Eclipse 43: Agnès Varda in California Released by The Criterion Collection At the Cannes Film Festival this past May, the indomitable French
February 23, 2015Filmmaker Les Blank, the recipient of the IDA’s 2011 Career Achievement Award, was nothing if not a man at peace with his obsessions. By turns a