Tag: Biography

For Robert Richardson, the camera appears less like an instrument of seeing than a room he ...

Clyde Best speaks about crossing the Atlantic at 17 with roughly the same dramatic emphasis another ...

Ola Henningsen calls himself “slow,” a description delivered without embarrassment and with the practical clarity he ...

Celebrity documentaries often promise access as a corrective to bad publicity, which creates a peculiar arrangement: ...

Privacy is not a gap in Sasha Waters’ documentary; it is the condition the film has ...

Jon Erwin’s young George Washington wants the British Empire before he learns how to defeat it. ...

Jessica Zitter’s camera enters Oakland’s Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus with a rare and unstable kind ...

Punk documentaries have a weakness for canonization, the slow embalming of sweat into legacy. 40 Years ...

Leonard Bernstein’s cigarette-rough voice carries Douglas Tirola’s film before any orchestra has time to swell. It ...

Redaction turns memory into architecture: walls, sealed doors, corridors ending in black ink. Peter Sichel, the ...