July 2, 2003
I was recently with a group of friends when my husband introduced a seemingly simple question: Can you create your list of top ten films of all time
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June 2, 2003by George Butler In late 1974, I published a book, with writer Charles Gaines, called Pumping Iron: The Art of Bodybuilding . I thought this could be
May 26, 2003There are countless ways to use the camera and the editing room to get at the truth. But I like best the nonfiction movies that open up the
May 2, 2003Courtesy by Mark Lipson I was a freshman in college when a friend asked me one night if I was interested in seeing a documentary film. "The director
May 2, 2003Berga: Soldiers of Another War is an elegy in two senses. The personal "what might have been" aspect of the story haunted and motivated Charles
March 3, 2003When it comes to the important things in life, there's a "first time" only once. I wish I could say I recall the first film I ever saw, but that
February 2, 2003I was an undergraduate when I saw Mike Rubbo's Sad Song of Yellow Skin and decided to become a documentary filmmaker. I felt as if a truck had
December 1, 2002I read a front-page article in The New York Times recently that stated that the US is currently buying millions of barrels of oil a year from Iraq.
November 1, 2002In the 1960s, when I had just arrived in New York City, I spent a year as an assistant to Willard Van Dyke, the renowned social documentary filmmaker
October 1, 2002Every time I watch The Times of Harvey Milk , directed by Rob Epstein and produced by Richard Schmienchen, I am overcome with emotion. Call me a