Samsara is another visually stunning, globe-trotting think piece from the director of Baraka.
Like many divisive issues, Gun Fight boils down to conflicting interpretations of what defines America.
Like transmissions from another time or dimension, Julia Haslett’s personal journey bleeds into her biography of Weil.
Chocolate-covered scallops, anyone?
Full Frame this year offered a programmatic theme notable in the variety of its manifestations: obsession.
Hetherington gave his life bearing witness, and Diary is what he saw.
Virgil Vernier’s Pandore is a marvelous example of minimal authorial presence.
The film feels familiar because every tabloid or celebrity story of the past 30 years has followed the exact same outline.
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2011: Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel
Roger Corman has had as much influence over modern Hollywood as Spielberg or Scorsese, and for good reason.
Our man Rajesh is as good as it gets, a courageous family man, a dreamer, for whom little seems to go right.
Junk Palace is a beautiful piece of craftsmanship well worth the small expense of time it takes to see it.
Let’s take it for what it’s worth: a delightful, feel-good movie by any measure.
It’s an inherently compelling story, so it’s surprising that there have been no feature-length documentaries made on the subject before.
Few nonfiction films so carefully adhere to the classic challenge of three-act structure than I Will Marry the Whole Village.
Guilty Pleasures is a movie about fantasy: creating it, living in it, and learning its limitations.
The human comedy that takes place within the cramped confines of huts is as rich as any found in a Herzog documentary.
Lucy Walker’s documentary is alternately gratifying and heart-wrenching.
Seltzer Works strikes a peculiar but uplifting note within a recession.
Perhaps you should not go into any new movie at a documentary film festival with expectations.
Anna Rodgers’s feature-length documentary debut follows two 11-year-old cousins facing very different journeys.