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Jailhouse to Milhouse (2024)
I had a minor resistance walking into Buddy [...]
Tag: documentary
Starring Jerry as Himself
When you find something that you love, you tend to given in to the temptation to want to become a connoisseur. That’s kind of how I feel about documentaries, possibly my favorite genre. I could watch an entire marathon of documentaries and, in fact, at this year’s Sidewalk Film Festival, I gave an entire day […]
God + Country (2024)
I have been very quick to knock any film for having a preaching-to-the-choir narrative, whether it is on the right or the left. It’s hard to both-sides an issue anymore and keep the public’s attention. Everyone, it seems, wants to hear what they want to hear. The struggle comes in making that narrative at least […]
Vishniac (2024)
It is a little hard to walk into a documentary about The Holocaust anymore and not wonder what the latest entry is bringing to the conversation. Holocaust documentaries are a crowded field; essential but crowded. For me, the most successful are those that don’t cover the same ground. The focus on the individual is not […]
The 95th Academy Award Nominees: ‘All That Breathes’
Nominations:• Best Documentary Feature Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes is a deeply moving and deeply introspective documentary that uses the poetry of observation to convey the information that the natural world is being strangled by the reckless impulses of mankind. This, of course, is nothing new, but the movie doesn’t shame us. It doesn’t rub […]
