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Arc of Oblivion, directed by Ian Cheney, 2023.
If you were worried about losing your digital files, would you immediately think of building an ark? Ian Cheney, documentary filmmaker, was worried about his film footage in his hard drives going bad. It was making sounds like his son … Continue reading
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The Other Shore, directed by Timothy Wheeler, 2013.
Documentary available on Amazon Prime. Since watching the feature film with Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, I became curious about the documentary made by Diana Nyad’s nephew, Timothy Wheeler, ten years earlier, just after the swim was completed. Wheeler had … Continue reading
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Tagged Diana Nyad, documentary films, Frederick Wiseman, marathon swimming, Timothy Wheeler
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This Changes Everything, directed by Tom Donahue, 2018.
documentary available on Netflix. At the beginning of the movie, as promising as the title itself, you think that something is afoot to correct the bias against women in the film industry, that Geena Davis’ institute has its finger on … Continue reading
The Spirit of ’45 directed by Ken Loach, 2012.
a documentary film, no longer available in theaters, alas, or streaming. Jubilation to celebrate the end of World War II opens the movie. People crowd the streets in London and dance and sing and kiss and embrace. There is a … Continue reading
“Sr.” a documentary about Robert Downey, 2022.
directed by Chris Smith with both Robert Downeys, Jr. and Sr. Available on Netflix Robert Downey, Sr. is well known for his movies that were made in the 60s and 70s, and took shots at society in satire so original … Continue reading
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Louis Armstrong’s Black and Blues
directed by Sacha Jenkins available on AppleTV Jenkins made this movie to reclaim Armstrong’s importance to black music, to reject his image as nothing but an Uncle Tom, to demonstrate his brilliance as a horn player. In the process, we … Continue reading
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Tagged black history, documentary films, Jazz, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Nas, Wynton Marsalis
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Hello, Bookstore, directed by A. B. Zax, 2021.
His daughter describes him as a man with generosity, patience, and kindness. Matthew Tannenbaum runs a small independent bookstore in Lenox Mass which is upended by the pandemic. Casual shoppers, used to browsing, cease to visit, and the website does … Continue reading
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Tagged documentary films, GoFundMe, independent bookstores, Lenox Mass, Matthew Tannenbaum, Pandemic, reading
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Who We Are, a Chronicle of Racism
Jeffrey Robinson’s intention in Who We Are, a Chronicle of Racism in America, is to educate, and it succeeds mightily in this aim. Robinson, a lawyer with the ACLU, on Juneteenth 2018, gave a lecture at Town Hall in New … Continue reading
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Gunda directed by Victor Kossokovsky, 2020.
Distributed on Neon This documentary film is about a sow. You may well think, why would I want to spend hours watching an oversize pig raise her brood? There are several reasons. First and foremost is the quality of the … Continue reading
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My Octopus Teacher, directed by Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed. 2020.
with Craig Foster. Craig Foster, a South African documentary filmmaker, exhausted from his work, decides to dive in the kelp forest – filled waters of the ocean off the Western Cape. Even though the water is very cold, he dives … Continue reading
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