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DOC NYC · 2014

DOC NYC 2014

Docs Redux

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7 films · 3 reviews

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The Chair

A fly on the wall look at a lawyer desperately trying to save his client's life with only a few hours to go before the time set for execution.

(Country: US; Year: 1962; Director: Robert Drew)

David

A portrait of the jazz trumpeter David Allen.

(Country: US; Year: 1961; Director: Gregory Shuker, DA Pennebaker, William Ray; Stars: David Allen)

High School

A documentary portrait of an urban Philadelphia high school.

(Country: US; Year: 1968; Director: Frederick Wiseman)

Hoop Dreams

Documentary charts the fortunes of two boys hoping to make it as basketball stars.

(Country: US; Year: 1994; Director: Steve James; Writer: Steve James, Frederick Marx; Stars: William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates, Sheila Agee, Arthur 'Bo' Agee, Earl Smith, Gene Pingatore, Isiah Thomas, Marlyn Hopewell, Bill Gleason, Patricia Weir, Marjorie Heard, Luther Bedford, Aretha Mitchell)

Kings Of Pastry

Review preview for Kings Of Pastry

It is a wonderful comment on the French as a nation that they can take something like this so very, very seriously.

Val Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
An American pastry chef travels to France to enter the Olympics of cooking, in pursuit of a red, white and blue collar from the Meilleur Ouvrier de France.

(Country: USA, UK, Netherlands; Year: 2009; Director: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker) , Official site

Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster

Review preview for Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster

Though the story does drag in a few places, so do the lives that the documentary endeavours to encapsulate.

The Dude · 4 out of 5
The fall and rise of a veteran heavy metal band.

(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky; Stars: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Bob Rock, Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo)

Salesman

Following four door-to-door salesmen around the States in the late Sixties.

(Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)