Beyond The Edge (2014)
Most documentaries about mountaineering or other extreme sports are burdened with the awkward fact that most of the audience knows the ending before they even sit down in their seats. However,…
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Made in America (2014)
Great musical documentaries are hard to come by, especially in this day and age of pop stars churning out self-congratulatory pseudo-mythmaking with everyone from Justin Bieber to Katy Perry to…
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DVD: How To Survive A Plague (2014)
Documentaries rarely come as piercing and purposeful as this. David France’s angry, upsetting and highly condemnatory account of the 1980’s American AIDS crisis – where a group of activist unite…
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DVD: Fire in the Blood (2014)
In a space of a week, we are treated to not only one but two DVD releases of documentaries about AIDS-crisis because there’s nothing else better in 2014 so far…
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Milius (2013)
Anyone alive during the 1970’s would remember the name of John Milius, perhaps the most infamous renegade of New Hollywood movie brats of which include directors Scorcese, Spielberg, Coppola and…
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Love, Marilyn (2013)
With the discovery of Marilyn Monroe’s treasure trove of letters in her Actor’s Studio coach Lee Strasberg’s house comes this documentary that attempts to dispel Monroe’s blonde bombshell public persona…
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The Imposter (2012)
One of the finest films of the year turns out to be a documentary. The Imposter is a bold, compelling tour-de-force that employs cinematic techniques to explore the nature of truth, deception and storytelling itself. Above all, it defies documentary conventions to expose a darker side of the human mind as good as any work of fiction does.
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Alamar (2010)
Transcends the art of blending documentary with fiction. Unhurried and graceful, this is a bittersweet, aching paean to fatherhood, a soaring hymn to nature and a stark, primal reminder of what makes us who we are.
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