January 20, 2022 Black, Bold and Queer: Celebrating the Legacy of Marlon Riggs In 1991, Marlon Riggs made history with the POV premiere on PBS of his groundbreaking film Tongues Untied . It was at the height of the culture wars Read more
August 12, 2020 'Tokyo Olympiad' Captures the Spirit of the Games Japanese director Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad stands as a seminal achievement in documentary films about sports, right up there with Leni Read more
January 31, 2019 Docs on Disc: A New Boxed Set Spotlights Raymond Depardon Three Films by Raymond Depardon Released by Icarus Films 2018 3-Disc Boxed Set Featuring 12 Days / 87 minutes, 2017 /French w/English subtitles, Read more
April 18, 2018 Films Within Films: The Collected "Ethno-Fiction" of Jean Rouch On 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 Read more
May 17, 2017 Independent Spirit: Milestone's 'Magic Box' Restores Shirley Clarke to the Avant-Garde Pantheon Once, 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 Read more
March 30, 2016 Les Blank's Visions of Oklahoma: 'A Poem Is a Naked Person' Now on BluRay Why 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 Read more
January 21, 2016 Restoring the Lost Flaherty Classic 'Moana With Sound' Moana With Sound , 1926/1980, B&W, 98 min. by Robert J. Flaherty, Frances Hubbard Flaherty and Monica Flaherty Released by Kino Classics, 2015 Read more
January 20, 2016 He's an Artist, He Don't Look Back: Pennebaker's Landmark Dylan Doc—the Definitive Version Bob 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 Read more
October 27, 2015 New Guzman Collection Tells Chile's Story Patricio Guzmán: A Country's Journey, Five Films Released by Icarus Films, September 2015 8-DVD Boxed Set Includes: Battle of Chile: Part One , 1975 Read more
October 13, 2015 The West Coast Years of a French New Wave Filmmaker Eclipse 43: Agnès Varda in California Released by The Criterion Collection At the Cannes Film Festival this past May, the indomitable French Read more