I spoke with director Martha Shane (Picture Character) by phone a few weeks after DOC NYC to discuss her latest documentary, Narrowsburg (which I also reviewed). This was my second conversation with her in the past year (I previously interviewed […]

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I met with first-time documentary-feature director Jo Ardinger and producer Rosalie Miller on Sunday, November 10, 2019, at DOC NYC, to discuss their collaboration on Personhood (which I also reviewed). The movie analyzes the rise of fetal “personhood” movements, focusing […]

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I met with director Kristof Bilsen (Elephant’s Dream) and executive producer Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson), on Sunday, November 10, 2019, at DOC NYC, to discuss their collaboration on Bilsen’s new documentary Mother (which I also reviewed). In the film, Bilsen tells […]

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In my case, ignorance was truly bliss, as I was able to experience all of Flack’s glory for the first time, the rush of her brilliance hitting me hard.

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The director emphasizes the illusory nature of Tinseltown fantasies through her talking-head interviews, projecting duplicate images of her subjects in multiple places in the frame as they speak, a device both appropriate to the theme and visually striking.

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Do not, in any way, underestimate the girl.

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An artist of uncompromising principles, Still did not, in his lifetime, experience quite the acclaim of a Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko, and had nothing but contempt for the now-revered Museum of Modern Art, which he accused of “institutionalizing modernism.”

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Thanks to Hovannisian’s intimately embedded camera, we are right there, every step of the way, the observational material beautifully supplemented by talking-head interviews recorded after the fact.

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Perhaps I assume too much, but Parkour and Palestine is probably not the alliterative combination on most people’s minds when they think of the Middle East.

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