Firefighters are people who are close to Denis Leary’s heart–his cousin and childhood friend were firefighters, and tragically, his cousin, friend and four other firefighters were killed in a 1999…
Title: Bombay Beach Director: Alma Har’el A strikingly photographed and well constructed snapshot of American despair, and the winner of the Best Documentary prize at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival,…
Title: Klitschko Director: Sebastian Dehnhardt Proving its subjects uncommon thinkers as well as uncommon fighters, the new documentary “Klitschko” is a surprisingly humanizing and informative look at the Ukrainian-born world…
Title: Hell and Back Again Director: Danfung Dennis Not to suggest that the two are in any way equivalent, but wading through Afghanistan and Iraq war documentaries, whose prevalence and…
Title: El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Director: Gereon Wetzel For the first six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his tiny restaurant elBulli, overlooking Catalonia’s Costa…
Title: Connected Director: Tiffany Shlain A documentary snapshot of the blurry, ever-evolving intersection of the relationship between technology and human bonds and grander societal development, “Connected” is wonderfully emblematic of…
NBA lockout got you down? Don’t worry; you can still have some basketball in your life thanks to the upcoming documentary Elevate. The film focuses on four students at the…
In “Beautiful Boy,” Bill and Kate (Michael Sheen and Maria Bello) are a married couple already on the verge of separation when their college-age son, Sam (Kyle Gallner), goes on…
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…
