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ALABAMA SNAKE

December 6, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ALABAMA SNAKE

Filmmaker Theo Love wisely begins ALABAMA SNAKE with the only part of this lurid tale of religion, sex, and booze that is not in dispute. That would be when two paramedics drive down a dark country road, on October 4, 1991, sirens and flashing lights off, only to find Darlene Summerford stumbling towards them, clutching… Read More »

Tagged With: Alabama, attempted murder, belief, documentary, Pentecosts, rattlesnake, snake handler, Theo Love, venomous snakes

BELUSHI

November 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BELUSHI

Click here for the flashback interview with RJ Cutler for THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE. Early on in R.J. Cutler’s documentary, BELUSHI, Harold Ramis talks about John Belushi’s enormous appetites for everything. It would be his downfall, the appetite for drugs, that is, but Cutler smartly focuses on the other appetites, the enormous ambition, and also the… Read More »

Tagged With: drugs, John Belushi, Saturday Night Live, The Blue Brothers

TRUTH IS THE ONLY CLIENT: THE OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY

November 21, 2020 By Leave a Comment

TRUTH IS THE ONLY CLIENT: THE OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE MURDER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY

Full disclosure. I spend every November 22nd watching Oliver Stone’s JFK. Partly because it is so visually arresting, partly for the compelling story, and partly for the nostalgia I have for my childhood home of New Orleans. It doesn’t matter that I knew even before first seeing it that Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner in full… Read More »

Tagged With: JFK, Kennedy Assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Ruth Paine, Vincent Bugliosi, Warren Commission

J.R. ‘BOB’ DOBBS AND THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS

October 14, 2020 By Leave a Comment

J.R. ‘BOB’ DOBBS AND THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS

Though J.R. ‘BOB’ DOBBS AND THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS throws in that now infamous quote from L. Ron Hubbard, the one about how the real money is in starting a religion not writing science fiction, this (mostly) playful, always thoughtful documentary is an unusual cautionary tale, but not for the usual reasons. Yes, it’s… Read More »

Tagged With: Captain Beefheart, Captain Von Trapp, cult, devival, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Subgenius, Texas

THE GLORIAS

October 4, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE GLORIAS

Click here for the flashback interview with Julianne Moore for FREEHELD. Julie Taymor, a visionary director if there ever was one, has done more than merely work around the inherent artificiality of the cinematic biopic. Rather, she has used it to excellent advantage in THE GLORIAS, a consideration of the life, and political education, of… Read More »

Tagged With: abortion rights, female rage, Gender equality, Gloria Steinem, Ms. Magazine, racism, women's movement

THE WAY I SEE IT

September 16, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE WAY I SEE IT

The canny undercurrent of Dawn Porter’s documentary THE WAY I SEE IT, about White House photographer Pete Souza, is a consideration of the free press in an era when “fake news” has become a catch phrase for those who see journalists as the enemy of the people. It’s equally canny in the way it contrasts… Read More »

Tagged With: journalism, Obama, Pete Souza, photography, POTUS, Reagan, SHADE, White House

BOYS STATE

August 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

BOYS STATE

As some of us still ponder the results of the presidential election of 2016, and view the approach of the 2020 election with trepidation, there is no more timely nor illuminating film than Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ cinema verité documentary, BOY’S STATE.

Tagged With: abortion, Boy's State, education, elections, gun control, high school, politics, Texas

CRYPTOPIA: BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAINS AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

May 25, 2020 By Leave a Comment

CRYPTOPIA: BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAINS AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

A lively, cinematic page-turner of a documentary, CRYPTOPIA: BITCOIN, BLOCKCHAINS AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET, takes us on a rollicking journey through the history of Bitcoin: its detractors, its disciples, and its philosophers.

Tagged With: banking, bitcoin, blockchain, cryptocurrency, peer to peer, Satoshi Nakamoto

THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY

March 14, 2019 By Leave a Comment

THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY

Alex Gibney makes a subtle, but salient, point in THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY. While recounting the curious story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, the billion-dollar company she founded, he draws the obvious comparison between Holmes and her idol, Thomas Edison, but he doesn’t stop there. Using the tropes of a suspense… Read More »

Tagged With: blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes, lab tests, medical testing, self-made billionaire, Silicon Valley, Theranos

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

July 7, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

As the documentary THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS opens, Bobby Shafran, one of the eponymous strangers, notes that the story he’s about to tell is unbelievable. And it is.  But the way that Tim Wardle’s dark meditation on good intentions gone very wrong unfolds, the story of how the three identical triplets separated at birth found each other at the age of 19, is the least of it.

Tagged With: adoption, documentary, New York City, stranger than fiction, triplets

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