DOC NYC · 2016
14 films · 10 reviews
Effectively assembles footage and facts in a relentless barrage that just overwhelms you, while confidently establishing connecting threads that have terrifying implications.
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Ava DuVernay)
Directors Rod Blackhurst and Brian McGinn do a good job of keeping things balanced and of illustrating the ways in which sensationalism can be misleading.
(Country: Denmark, US; Year: 2016; Director: Rod Blackhurst, Brian McGinn; Writer: Matthew Hamachek, Brian McGinn; Stars: Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher, Raffaele Sollecito, Giuliano Mignini, Nick Pisa, Stephanie Kercher, Rudy Guede, Valter Biscotti, Stefano Conti, Carla Vecchiotti, Curt Knox, Arline Kercher, Anderson Cooper, Donald Trump)
The people encountered while working as a cinematographer for different documentarians, shooting all over the globe, are woven into a fascinating, irregular net of meaning.
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Kirsten Johnson; Stars: Kirsten Johnson)
The symbolism in Fire At Sea is so organic that it might dawn on you hours or days after seeing the film.
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2015; Director: Gianfranco Rosi; Writer: Gianfranco Rosi, Carla Cattani; Stars: Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana, Pietro Bartolo, Giuseppe Fragapane)
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Clay Tweel)
(Country: Austria; Year: 2016; Director: Kief Davidson, Richard Ladkani)
The full use of what film can do is eye-opening - the juxtapositions jolt awareness of what is important and remains necessary.
(Country: US, France, Belgium, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Raoul Peck; Writer: James Baldwin)
Oakes is careful not to make his film hagiographic. Jim is presented as restless, troubled by a sense of guilt at his advantages, and sometimes naive.
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Brian Oakes; Writer: Chris Chuang, Heather MacDonald; Stars: Unai Aranzadi, Zac Baillie, Manu Brabo, Mosa'ab Elshamy, James Foley, Katie Foley, Mark Foley, Michael Foley, Diane Foley)
This is not about once upon a times or fairy tale endings but the challenges on the way and it stands as a testament to the love and determination of every member of the Suskind family.
(Country: US, France; Year: 2015; Director: Roger Ross Williams; Writer: Ron Suskind)
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)
Though the impression is of something collected in a very informal way, the whole is skillfully assembled.
(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Barbara Kopple; Stars: Sharon Jones)
There's a much better five hour documentary inside this, trying to get out.
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Ezra Edelman; Stars: Bea Arthur, Marcia Clark, A.C. Cowlings, David Gascon, Robin Greer, Peter Hyams, Robert Kardashian, O.J. Simpson, Peter Weireter, David Zucker)
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Dawn Porter)
He seemingly lets the camera into almost every nook and cranny, so that a picture emerges of not only him but the media goldfish bowl people like him inhabit.
(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg; Writer: Eli B Despres, Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg)
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