‘Tis the season for year end “Best Of” lists. Here’s Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s and Lead Critic Chris Reed’s… Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s Top Films of 2020 Though recently A24 has felt more like an e-commerce store than a movie studio due […]

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Eternity lives within us, cinematically and beyond.

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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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...but perhaps what matters most is the viewer's perception of that truth, as refracted through the lens of his/her personal eye. We are all, indeed, camerapeople.

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I met with documentary director Rebecca Cammisa, on Friday, June 16, 2017, at AFI DOCS 2017, to discuss her new film Atomic Homefront (reviewed here), which takes a probing look at a St. Louis community that has long been contaminated […]

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"What does it mean to film another person? How does it affect that person – and what does it do to the one who films?"

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