Granito: How To Nail a Dictator Movie Review
Title: Granito: How To Nail a Dictator Director: Pamela Yates The art of reflexive cinematic disquisition — in which an area of putative inquiry and the very arc of the…
DVD Review: The Nightmare Before Christmas, Deadtime Stories: Volume 2, The 10th Victim
In an admission that will come as a considerable disappointment to a former coworker (who, for the record, is decidedly not Goth), my initial memories of “The Nightmare Before Christmas”…
Exclusive: Nick Broomfield Talks Sarah Palin, Trashes Wasilla
In his new documentary “Sarah Palin: You Betcha!,” director Nick Broomfield indulges in some of his characteristically bumbling, nice-guy provocation, learning more about Palin’s background and hometown while engaging in…
Exclusive: Tiffany Shlain Talks Connected, Webby Awards
If babies need more sleep for their developing brains, as studies have confirmed, then our ever-increasing reliance on email and text messaging have some unforseen consequences for human evolution? Filmmaker…
Harvey Weinstein Documentary Coming To SundanceNow.com October 7
Have you ever thought of the world not knowing about “Pulp Fiction”? Well, that’s what would have happened if Harvey Weinstein had never been in Hollywood. Hollywood sounds off on…
American Teacher Movie Review
Title: American Teacher Director: Vanessa Roth An inoffensive but hardly essential piece of occupational boosterism, “American Teacher” provides a look at the public education crisis in the United States through…
Sarah Palin: You Betcha! Movie Review
Title: Sarah Palin: You Betcha! Directors: Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill A small pleasure, at least, that Sarah Palin’s rise to national prominence has come about in this modern day…
Thunder Soul Movie Review
Title: Thunder Soul Director: Mark Landsman The glut of studies — seemingly released almost weekly — showing the slippage and relatively poor international ranking of American high school students in…
Bobby Fischer Against the World Movie Review
Title: Bobby Fischer Against the World Director: Liz Garbus It’s hard to fathom today, but at the height of his career, chess master Bobby Fischer was by certain accounts better…