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A Conversation with David Greaves, Liani Greaves, Anne de Mare & Lynn True (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM)

Jack Schenker — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:20:45 +0000

Once Upon a Time in Harlem is the best film I saw at Sundance this year. It is also, in a sense, a miracle. In 1972, the legendary documentary filmmaker William Greaves—director of the avant-garde masterpiece Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968), […]

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HTN’s 9 Most Anticipated Films of DOC NYC ‘25

The Editorial Staff — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:36:19 +0000

It’s that time again as New York City’s venerable celebration of documentary cinema, DOC NYC, kicks off today (November 12) running all the way through the end of the month with a November 30 wrap date. As has become the […]

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THAT SUMMER

Jessica Baxter — Thu, 24 May 2018 20:26:54 +0000

(That Summer, Göran Hugo Olsson’s fascinating new documentary that finally restores footage of Big Edie and Little Edie Beale of Grey Gardens that was thought lost for decades opens Friday in NY theaters.) Göran Olsson assembled this prequel to the 1975 […]

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SALESMAN

Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:05:54 +0000

What makes a documentary classic? This seems an important question given how few are still watched in an era when no one could keep up with all the new releases.

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A Conversation with Caroline Dhavernas (EASY LIVING)

Christopher Reed — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 21:22:21 +0000

I met with Canadian actress Caroline Dhavernas (Mars et Avril) on Monday, March 13, 2017, at SXSW, to discuss her collaboration on Adam Keleman‘s first feature, Easy Living (which I also reviewed). The film is a charming dramedy about a thirtysomething door-to-door […]

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A Conversation With Adam Keleman (EASY LIVING)

Christopher Reed — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 18:51:48 +0000

I met with writer/director Adam Keleman (winner of the 2012 Hammer to Nail short-film contest, for his movie Long Days) and his star, Canadian actress Caroline Dhavernas (Mars et Avril), separately, both on Monday, March 13, 2017, at SXSW, to […]

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True/False Film Fest Wrap Up

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:39:27 +0000

Making the twelve hour drive from Austin, Texas, through rain, sleet and blowing snow to attend the 12th annual True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Missouri was a messy dark long drive, but we arrived on time and safe despite the shaggy […]

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LEVIATHAN

Robert Greene — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:00:43 +0000

The progeny of direct cinema, experimental film and ethnography, Leviathan uses new cameras and an inventive technique to create something bracingly distinctive.

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TRUE/FALSE 2010 PART ONE – A Festival Apart

Pamela Cohn — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:51:59 +0000

In a free local Missouri paper called VOX Magazine, reporter Aaron Channon writes, “The winter air in Columbia is not charged with the taste of salt water off the Mediterranean, and George Clooney will not be spotted sauntering along the […]

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2010 Cinema Eye Honors: Tully’s POV

Michael Tully — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:14:28 +0000

Friday night at The Times Center in midtown Manhattan, the documentary community gathered for the third annual Cinema Eye Honors to toast the best nonfiction filmmaking of 2009. The room was packed with familiar names and faces, featuring several living […]

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