February 26, 2019
Editor’s Note: Jonas Mekas, dubbed by many as “the godfather of avant-garde cinema,” was this and many more: As an archivist and exhibitor, he co-
Personal Docs
October 19, 2018
Alain Resnais said about Night and Fog , "I want to address the viewer in a critical state…to create a space for contemplation." In the Getting Real
October 17, 2018
Part home movie, part activist doc, Rudy Valdez's The Sentence is that rare film that can bring even the most jaded filmgoer (yes, that would be me)
March 14, 2018
Rebecca Miller was 21 years old when she realized that she wanted to be a filmmaker. Noticing that her father—distinguished Pulitzer Prize-winning
January 26, 2018
For this column at least, January has become what I'll call "mental differentness" (as opposed to "illness" or "disability") month—a chance to
November 7, 2017
Strong Island is Yance Ford's cinematic nonfiction exploration of racial injustice in the Long Island suburbs, told through the murder of the
October 13, 2017
Filmmaker Mariam Jobrani had a reasonably thriving career in documentary and reality TV. Then in April 2010, everything changed: She received a
September 21, 2016
Jenni Olson's The Royal Road , which recently arrived on DVD and VOD via Wolfe Video, is a movie whose actual scale is nearly impossible to discern.
May 17, 2016
I was freaking out about getting married. I had carved out a decade as an indie filmmaker, and I valued my independence in all matters. I wasn't
March 30, 2016
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