DOC NYC · 2015
15 films · 13 reviews
An intensely sad and affecting look at a hugely talented young woman, ill equipped for the all-consuming fame which her soulful voice would bring her.
(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Asif Kapadia)
Neville and Gordon wisely embed the verbal duels into the surroundings.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville; Writer: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville; Stars: Dick Cavett, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr., Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, Matt Tyrnauer, Brooke Gladstone, Ginia Bellafante, Sam Tanenhaus)
The film is an interesting, timely, though ultimately dispiriting look at how the twin forces of institutional bigotry and internal discord fragmented one of the key organising forces in black America.
(Year: 2015; Director: Stanley Nelson)
One person's armed vigilante is another person's guardian angel and the border between these two ideas is wafer thin and easily crossed as Matthew Heineman's beautifully shot and probing documentary shows.
(Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2015; Director: Matthew Heineman)
Unflinching but uplifting, Longinotto's film shows how even one person, if they put their minds to it, can make an enormous difference.
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2015; Director: Kim Longinotto; Writer: Kim Longinotto)
Informative - and frequently worrying - although not particularly cinematic.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Alex Gibney; Writer: Alex Gibney, based on the book by Lawrence Wright; Stars: Leah Remini, Mimi Rogers, Riley Keough, Priscilla Presley, Jason Beghe, Paul Haggis, Lisa Marie Presley, Neil Gaiman, Diana Canova, Michael Fairman, Chaka Khan, MC Lyte, Amanda Palmer, Larry Anderson, Lawrence Wright)
Her energy is remarkable and what this film shows is the humility, intelligence and bravery of a girl lucky to be alive
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Davis Guggenheim; Stars: Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai, Khushal Yousafzai, Atal Yousafzai)
Even if Dick took away the interviewees and voiceovers from this film, the statistics alone would make for startling reading.
(Year: 2015; Director: Kirby Dick; Writer: Kirby Dick; Stars: Diane Rosenfeld)
Morgen creates a vivid, colourful and quite poignant rush through a life that was, at once, explosively creative and deeply troubled.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Brett Morgen; Writer: Brett Morgen; Stars: Courtney Love, Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic)
Oppenheimer boils down the atrocity to the experience of a single family, leaving us to extrapolate back up.
(Country: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Indonesia, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Joshua Oppenheimer)
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Ethan Hawke)
It is more like a primer on her life than an in-depth study.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Liz Garbus)
Moore is hopeful for the US, too, as he strolls along the remnants of the Berlin Wall, built to last and tumbled nevertheless.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Moore; Writer: Michael Moore)
(Country: UK, Ukraine, US; Year: 2015; Director: Evgeny Afineevsky; Stars: Bishop Agapit, Serhii Averchenko, Kristina Berdinskikh, Pavlo Dobryanskyy, Valery Dovgiy, Bogdan Dubas, Kurganskyi Eduard, Mykhailo Havryliuk, Natan Hazin, His Holiness The Patriarch of Kyiv and Ukraine Filaret, Dmytro Holubnychy, Timur Ibragimov, Said Ismagilov, Cissy Jones, Kamaliya)
There is a sense of the freshness of freedom but this a film that mainly deals in big emotions as though worried about getting down to specifics.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Crystal Moselle; Stars: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Narayana Angulo, Krsna Angulo, Mukunda Angulo)
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