HELL HOUSE is one of the scariest documentaries you will ever see. In it, fundamentalists with what they consider to be the purest of motives, put on a Halloween house in which scenarios are staged depicting violence that is intensely disturbing both emotionally and graphically. Its all meant to convert the unsaved by demonstrating a… Read More »
MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING
The piquant documentary, MUCH ADO ABOUT SOMETHING, takes on the question of who actually wrote Shakespeares plays and poems. Now, I am of the opinion that in the final analysis, it doesnt really matter. The works speak for themselves and whether they were written by the Bard of Avon or not, they still glimmer with… Read More »
BARAKA
I can’t possibly be the first person to point out the inherent silliness of trying to use words to convey the magic and wonder of the wordlessly eloquent film BARAKA. This film classic from 1992 explores the disconnect between the secular and sacred in the modern world by juxtaposing images of holy places and holy rites… Read More »
MY FLESH AND BLOOD
Johnathan Karshs documentary, MY FLESH AND BLOOD, takes us to a place that many of us will find difficult and joyful at the same time. It is a year in the life, told in sometimes painful detail, of Susan Tom, a divorced woman who having raised her own two biological children, has adopted 11 special… Read More »
THE FOG OF WAR
For years now, Errol Morris has been turning out visually sophisticated, intellectually dexterous documentaries about life’s eccentrics. Those who not only march to the beat of a different drumming, but who also may not be using any form of percussion at all with which to keep time. With the FOG OF WAR, he turns his inquiring lens… Read More »
ANATOMY OF A SCENE – MEMENTO
The Sundance Channels series, ANATOMY OF A SCENE, usually examines a film in current release, gathering together the team from both sides of the camera to discuss several aspects of one particular scene. The results, presented with a refreshing lack of technical jargon or stultifyingly obtuse film theory, shed a light on the creative process… Read More »
OLIVE OR TWIST
Consider the martini. That just what Peter Moody has done with OLIVE OR TWIST, a kitschy 55-minute valentine to that most persistent and evocative of cocktails. Standard references will give you facts, figures, and the twisted history surrounding Martini’s origins, but only Moody will also give you the ambiance, the gestalt, and yes, the cult… Read More »
SUNSHINE HOTEL
Michael Dominic’s documentary SUNSHINE HOTEL takes us to one of the last of the flophouses that once teemed in New York’s Bowery. From a high of two hundred half a century ago, there are now only eight, housing tenants in cubicles with chicken wire instead of ceilings, tenants who cling to those cubicles as an… Read More »
TRIBUTE
So what is it exactly that makes a person want to become someone else, even for a few hours up one a stage? Thats an interesting enough question, but Rich Hall and Kris Curry goes a bit deeper than that with their endlessly fascinating documentary, TRIBUTE, a look at the people in tribute bands and,… Read More »
FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS, THE (De Fem benspænd)
Lars von Triers, the infuriating Danish enfant terrible of film, has long been obsessed with 1967s THE PERFECT HUMAN, an experimental film from Jorgen Leth. Because von Triers is now in a position to act on his obsessions, and because he is, as you might have noticed from BREAKING THE WAVES and DOGVILLE, a perverse… Read More »
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