Todd Haynes excitingly captures an era’s explosion of creativity, one that bespoke new and challenging kinds of freedom.
This colorful but remote-feeling documentary functions almost as though it were taking orders from the late Merce Cunningham.
The contestants in Simon’s temperate portrait are openly, if not quite unapologetically, what-you-see-is-what-you-get.
The makers of this rescued-footage documentary ultimately understand the power of its subjects’ personalities.
It’s generally agreed that films fall into one of three categories: The Good, The Bad, and the So-Bad-It’s-Good.
Even a band of misfits as willful as the Superstars was no match for the tranquilizing idyll of SoCal.
Creating this fantasy Sight & Sound ballot felt as much like excavation as photography.
Mohammad Rasoulof’s Good Bye brings Rossellini’s ’50s to today’s Tehran.
Andy Warhol’s documentary is in absolute lockstep with the textures of its soundtrack.
The documentary announces its intentions to uphold its subject’s legacy from the title onward.
Is it success or failure that Beautiful Darling is unable to dispel the cloud that still hangs over Candy?
A vital, confounding, surprising, confrontational collection of underappreciated American films.
The documentary is content to slide on hagiography and shortchange cultural critique.