November 30, 2004
I remember feeling outraged when I first saw Boatman (1993), a film about life and death on the river Ganges in India. I saw the film at a time when
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October 31, 2004People sometimes ask me what my all-time favorite documentary film is. Many documentaries have moved me, or seem important or have influenced my own
August 31, 2004" To Be and To Have isn't a documentary in the traditional sense, with a demonstrative and didactic approach," says its maker, Nicolas Philibert. "I
July 30, 2004The Farmer's Wife , a documentary by David Sutherland, had a profound effect on me. It inspired me back into producing documentaries. After film
June 30, 2004Back in 1983 I was living in San Francisco, and I read in the newspaper one day about a new documentary called The Atomic Café that had just opened.
April 30, 2004It was the mid- 1950s and my sociology professor announced to our class one day that he was about to show us a documentary film. Students began to
March 31, 2004In My Father's House is a fascinating film because filmmaker Fatima Jebli Ouazzani shows us all her confusions, dreams and regrets, while remaining
January 31, 2004My brother Roko and I grew up on late-night dinner conversations with interesting guests, and summer trips to Eastern Europe to see family. But it
December 30, 2003The summer of 1969. Clearly the world was about to change––or end––and at the age of 13, I was not going to miss it by going away to summer camp. So
August 30, 2003For a reason that has since been lost to me, during my last year of college in 1990, I volunteered to write a thesis on something called "reader