Tag: Biography

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 ...

Country stardom is filmed here as a labor of polish: the hat angled right, the bell ...

Billy Idol’s great trick was making danger look like a haircut. The sneer, the leather, the ...

The couch scenes make old tennis footage behave like surveillance tape. Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova ...

A dead friend's handwriting can feel louder than a voice. Alan Berliner understands this, and Benita ...