Throughout the year, film festivals pop up across the country highlighting everything from future Oscar nominees like Sundance or Toronto, to avant garde works that will likely make waves on the art scene, like Ann Arbor or Locarno. And that’s no different for non-fiction cinema.
One of the most intriguing festivals looking at documentary cinema is now nearing its conclusion, and has brought to light some truly superlative pieces of work. At NYC’s Museum of Modern Art, the museum’s latest installment of their Doc Fortnight series is about to conclude, and has included some great documentaries both new and old.
Opening the festival is one of its greatest discoveries. Entitled Machines, the film marks its New York premiere as part of this series, and is the debut film from documentarian Rahul Jain. An Indian/German/Finnish co-production, Machines centers around a large textile factory in Gujarat, India...
One of the most intriguing festivals looking at documentary cinema is now nearing its conclusion, and has brought to light some truly superlative pieces of work. At NYC’s Museum of Modern Art, the museum’s latest installment of their Doc Fortnight series is about to conclude, and has included some great documentaries both new and old.
Opening the festival is one of its greatest discoveries. Entitled Machines, the film marks its New York premiere as part of this series, and is the debut film from documentarian Rahul Jain. An Indian/German/Finnish co-production, Machines centers around a large textile factory in Gujarat, India...
- 2/22/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) kicks off its 16th annual Doc Fortnight on Thursday, a 10-day festival that includes 20 feature-length non-fiction films and 10 documentary shorts. This year’s lineup includes four world premieres and a number of North American and U.S. premieres.
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The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
Read More: 2017 New Directors/New Films Announces Full Lineup, Including ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Beach Rats,’ ‘Menashe’ and More
The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Chris O'Falt and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Six months after announcing intentions to double the number of female and minority members in its ranks by 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 683 new members to join the organization. Forty-six percent of new invitees are female and 41 percent ethnic minorities, the Academy said, adding that the roster boasts 28 Oscar winners and 98 nominees. The youngest invitee is 24 and the oldest 91. Here is the list of the Asians included.
Actors
Kim Daniel-dae S. Korea
Lee Byung-hun S. Korea
Tatsuya Nakadai Japan
Cinematographers
Peter Pau China
Poon Hang-Sang China
Nelson Yu Lik-Wai China
Zhao Fei China
Designers
Yoshihito Akatsuka Japan
Directors
Hou Hsiao-Hsien China
Naomi Kawase Japan
Kim So-yong S. Jorea
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Japan
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand
Park Chan-wook S. Korea
Documentary
Kazuo Hara JApan
Emiko Omori Japan
Trinh T. Minh-ha Vietnam
Jean Tsien Taiwan
Wang Bing China
Music
Shigeru Umebayashi Japan
Producers
Albert Lee China
Short...
Actors
Kim Daniel-dae S. Korea
Lee Byung-hun S. Korea
Tatsuya Nakadai Japan
Cinematographers
Peter Pau China
Poon Hang-Sang China
Nelson Yu Lik-Wai China
Zhao Fei China
Designers
Yoshihito Akatsuka Japan
Directors
Hou Hsiao-Hsien China
Naomi Kawase Japan
Kim So-yong S. Jorea
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Japan
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand
Park Chan-wook S. Korea
Documentary
Kazuo Hara JApan
Emiko Omori Japan
Trinh T. Minh-ha Vietnam
Jean Tsien Taiwan
Wang Bing China
Music
Shigeru Umebayashi Japan
Producers
Albert Lee China
Short...
- 6/30/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Then are still ten days left in May, which means there are still ten days left in the SundanceNOW Doc Club retrospective of the films of Chris Marker. And in celebration, they've put together a great new video essay that shines a light on the famously elusive director, who was fascinated by memory, existence, cinema -- and cats. Watch below. Handpicked by renowned Tiff documentary programmer Thom Powers, here's the streaming lineup for May's "Chris Marker and His Legacy" series, which includes several enticing online debuts:"Sixth Side of the Pentagon" (1967)"Chris Marker’s Bestiary" (1994) -- Online Debut"One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich" (1999) -- Online Debut"Remembrance of Things to Come" (2001)"The Case of the Grinning Cat" (2004) SundanceNOW will also stream a selection of films inspired by Marker's work: "To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter" (2013) by director Emiko Omori, Jem Cohen's wonderful "Museum Hours" (2012) and "Description of.
- 5/20/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Attention cinephiles: SundanceNOW Doc Club has a juicy slate of streaming titles coming up. This May, the online VOD service will present a fantastic array of films from experimental director Chris Marker. Then in June, SundanceNOW will also host the exclusive Us premiere of French auteur Agnes Varda's TV miniseries "Agnes Varda From Here to There." Handpicked by renowned Tiff documentary programmer Thom Powers, here's the streaming lineup for May's "Chris Marker and His Legacy" series, which includes several enticing online debuts:"Sixth Side of the Pentagon" (1967)"Chris Marker’s Bestiary" (1994) -- Online Debut"One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich" (1999) -- Online Debut"Remembrance of Things to Come" (2001)"The Case of the Grinning Cat" (2004) SundanceNOW will also stream a selection of films inspired by Marker's work: "To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter" (2013) by director Emiko Omori, Jem Cohen's wonderful "Museum Hours" (2012)...
- 4/18/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Chicago – Tanya Wexler’s “Hysteria” is a feel-good movie about the dawn of an invention that redefined the meaning of “feel-good.” As America continues to harbor simultaneously puritanical and adolescent attitudes toward sex, films like “Hysteria” continue to be as vital as they are entertaining. In a way, the picture is as old-fashioned as any Hollywood crowd-pleaser, aside from its eyebrow-raising subject matter.
On the heels of his superb turn in “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” Hugh Dancy is a joy to behold as Mortimer Granville, a forward-thinking London doctor whose belief in germs gets him fired from his latest hospital position. Wexler basks in the delicious ironies of her opening sequence, as Mortimer’s disapproving boss remains oblivious to the horse dung that his shoe has literally dragged into his own sick room. It’s that brand of societal short-sightedness that Wexler continues to tweak with mirthless abandon.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Enter Dr.
On the heels of his superb turn in “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” Hugh Dancy is a joy to behold as Mortimer Granville, a forward-thinking London doctor whose belief in germs gets him fired from his latest hospital position. Wexler basks in the delicious ironies of her opening sequence, as Mortimer’s disapproving boss remains oblivious to the horse dung that his shoe has literally dragged into his own sick room. It’s that brand of societal short-sightedness that Wexler continues to tweak with mirthless abandon.
Blu-ray Rating: 4.5/5.0
Enter Dr.
- 9/26/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Co-curated by Marina Goldovskaya and Samuel B. Prime and co-sponsored by the French Film & TV Office, Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, Melnitz Movies and Documentary Salon present Return to Sender, Address Unknown—A Tribute to Chris Marker. On Tuesday, May 8 at 730pm, UCLA's James Bridges Theater will screen One Day in the Life of Ardrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker, 1999) and To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter (Emiko Omori, 2012). There will be a Q&A with director Emiko Omori following the screening.
Through film clips, journal entries, and personal ...
Through film clips, journal entries, and personal ...
- 5/4/2012
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
Current Art Shack artist and famed tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy and filmmaker Emiko Omori will screen the film "Ed Hardy Tattoo The World" at the Laguna Art Museum on Wednesday, September 22 at 6:00 p.m.Here's the blurb: "The film is about the artist’s journey, his unexpected rise to cult status, and his influence on pop culture. After graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute with plans for a career in the fine arts, he veered off course into the seamy world of drunken sailors and fallen women to pursue his childhood obsession: tattooing. His first mentor,...
- 9/17/2010
- by chris_allsop
- Examiner Movies Channel
The second notable Vietnam-themed documentary to be released theatrically in as many weeks, Barbara Sonneborn's film is a more personal, essay-like effort than the Tom Hanks-presented "Return With Honor".
The filmmaker, whose husband Jeff died in Vietnam more than three decades ago, has crafted a highly moving portrait of women whose men were lost to the conflict. "Regret to Inform" opened recently for a commercial run in New York and was also the opening-night film for the recent Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
The film, whose other kudos include the 1999 Independent Spirit Award for best documentary and best director and cinematography (documentary) at Sundance, is structured around the filmmaker's trip to Vietnam to visit the site where her husband was killed in 1968 during a mortar attack.
Intercut with footage of her journey, for which she was accompanied by her friend and translator Xuan Ngoc Evans, are interviews with American and Vietnamese war widows. Also featured prominently is archival news footage and photos relating to the period.
Although unexceptional in form or content, the film is an often deeply moving account of personal tragedies, effectively transforming the abstractions of the war into individual tales of human loss. Some of the devices are hokey -- a lengthy shot of the filmmaker gazing at the lush countryside from the seat of a moving train is more than a little self-conscious. But others resonate with a powerful intensity, like a drawing detailing the wounds to her husband's body.
The idea of using American and Vietnamese subjects -- the latter, of course, endured even greater hardships as a result of being where the fighting took place -- is excellent, serving to reaffirm the universal commonality of the horrors of war.
REGRET TO INFORM
Artistic License Films
Credits: Director-writer-producer: Barbara Sonneborn; Executive producer: Janet Cole; Cinematographers: Daniel Reeves, Emiko Omori, Nancy Schiesari; Editor: Ken Schneider; Composer: Todd Boikelheide. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 72 minutes.
The filmmaker, whose husband Jeff died in Vietnam more than three decades ago, has crafted a highly moving portrait of women whose men were lost to the conflict. "Regret to Inform" opened recently for a commercial run in New York and was also the opening-night film for the recent Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
The film, whose other kudos include the 1999 Independent Spirit Award for best documentary and best director and cinematography (documentary) at Sundance, is structured around the filmmaker's trip to Vietnam to visit the site where her husband was killed in 1968 during a mortar attack.
Intercut with footage of her journey, for which she was accompanied by her friend and translator Xuan Ngoc Evans, are interviews with American and Vietnamese war widows. Also featured prominently is archival news footage and photos relating to the period.
Although unexceptional in form or content, the film is an often deeply moving account of personal tragedies, effectively transforming the abstractions of the war into individual tales of human loss. Some of the devices are hokey -- a lengthy shot of the filmmaker gazing at the lush countryside from the seat of a moving train is more than a little self-conscious. But others resonate with a powerful intensity, like a drawing detailing the wounds to her husband's body.
The idea of using American and Vietnamese subjects -- the latter, of course, endured even greater hardships as a result of being where the fighting took place -- is excellent, serving to reaffirm the universal commonality of the horrors of war.
REGRET TO INFORM
Artistic License Films
Credits: Director-writer-producer: Barbara Sonneborn; Executive producer: Janet Cole; Cinematographers: Daniel Reeves, Emiko Omori, Nancy Schiesari; Editor: Ken Schneider; Composer: Todd Boikelheide. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 72 minutes.
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