Documentaries

Morgan Spurlock Scratches the Surface of Your Stupid Beard in Mansome

CAMERA GALELLA

The life of the original paparazzo

In Documentaries, New York City Trumps Hollywood, Report Finds

Take that, Hollywood! In the battle for Oscars, New York City is beating Hollywood by a long shot -- at least in one category. A study released today from the Center for an Urban Future, a New York City-based think tank, shows that half of the films nominated for an Oscar in the documentary-film ... More >>

Short and… Sweet, Sincere, Cloying, Beautiful: Oscar Nominees, in Brief

Take that, Hollywood! In the battle for Oscars, New York City is beating Hollywood by a long shot -- at least in one category. A study released today from the Center for an Urban Future, a New York City-based think tank, shows that half of the films nominated for an Oscar in the documentary-film ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: Detropia

​The first image in Detropia, the excellent new documentary about the decline of Detroit from filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Jesus Camp, is of a conductor raising his baton to lead an orchestra. It's a clue that what we're about to see is a city symphony film, in the tradition of Man With ... More >>

VIVA THE VILLAGE!

Downtown keeps on kickin'

I'm On Current TV's Series About Docs

​ Tonight at 9 p.m., Current TV continues its series 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die, a look at the best documentaries made in the last quarter-century, hosted by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Maybe because I'm in so many docs myself, I was asked to give my opinions in the show about slig ... More >>

The Thin Blue Line

​ Tonight at 9 p.m., Current TV continues its series 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die, a look at the best documentaries made in the last quarter-century, hosted by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Maybe because I'm in so many docs myself, I was asked to give my opinions in the show about slig ... More >>

Burden of Dreams

​ Tonight at 9 p.m., Current TV continues its series 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die, a look at the best documentaries made in the last quarter-century, hosted by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. Maybe because I'm in so many docs myself, I was asked to give my opinions in the show about slig ... More >>

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

The Food You Eat Is Killing You, and Other Non-Revelations, in Forks Over Knives

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead: Weighed Down With Doc Cliches

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

Dressed, a Doc on Fashionista Nary Manivong, Gets Snagged on Cliches

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

What Would Times Square Look Like With No Ads?

​From the man who brought you Super Size Me and reality stunt show 30 Days comes No Ad: New York, "an internet-based effort to remove all visual advertising from Times Square." Morgan Spurlock's Warrior Poets have teamed with online photo editing program Aviary and some neo-ad agency called Th ... More >>

So Much More Than Just the Facts in DOC NYC

​From the man who brought you Super Size Me and reality stunt show 30 Days comes No Ad: New York, "an internet-based effort to remove all visual advertising from Times Square." Morgan Spurlock's Warrior Poets have teamed with online photo editing program Aviary and some neo-ad agency called Th ... More >>

Natasha Richardson Weirdness

​I'm not trying to make something cute out of the tragic death of Natasha Richardson, the fine actress who died after a skiing accident last year. But there have definitely been some creepy coincidences about the aftermath of her passing. Mama Vanessa Redgrave promptly canceled out of schedu ... More >>

The NYC Food Film Festival Returns on June 23

Hey Paul/Flickr​Last year, the third annual NYC Food Film Festival gave us a documentary about mushrooms paired with a 10-course mushroom-inspired tasting menu created by Brad Farmerie. This year, both the festival and Farmerie return -- the former on June 23, and the latter on June 24, when h ... More >>

Meet Nutty Mainstream Christians in Waiting for Armageddon

Hey Paul/Flickr​Last year, the third annual NYC Food Film Festival gave us a documentary about mushrooms paired with a 10-course mushroom-inspired tasting menu created by Brad Farmerie. This year, both the festival and Farmerie return -- the former on June 23, and the latter on June 24, when h ... More >>

ARAB VOICES

Exploring Israel’s Arab minority via film

BEEN HERE BEFORE

A documentary on Vashti Bunyan, and a performance from the folk elder stateswoman

The Connection

A documentary on Vashti Bunyan, and a performance from the folk elder stateswoman

Les Is More

A documentary on Vashti Bunyan, and a performance from the folk elder stateswoman

The Unknown Soldier

A documentary on Vashti Bunyan, and a performance from the folk elder stateswoman

Dr. Feelgood

Michael Moore’s pill goes down easy, but his diagnosis of U.S. health care still devastates

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Michael Moore's Sicko and To Each His Own Cinema at Cannes

All Herzog, All the Time

Three-week fest at Film Forum, plus the filmmaker in the flesh

'The Hip Hop Project'

Three-week fest at Film Forum, plus the filmmaker in the flesh

Beyond Penguins

One doc series, two months, 23 critics, war, grizzlies, and the Dixie Chicks

'Iraq for Sale'

One doc series, two months, 23 critics, war, grizzlies, and the Dixie Chicks

'The Heart of the Game'

One doc series, two months, 23 critics, war, grizzlies, and the Dixie Chicks

Rack Focus

One doc series, two months, 23 critics, war, grizzlies, and the Dixie Chicks

Dude, Where's My Country?

In the wake of Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock tackles a range of American woes

Rack Focus

In the wake of Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock tackles a range of American woes

Strictly Business

Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival

Film

Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival

My Fake Candidate

Robert Altman and Cynthia Nixon talk about Tanner

Perceptive Talking Heads Can't Redeem a Sloppy Cinematic Blog

Robert Altman and Cynthia Nixon talk about Tanner

The Big Ones

Michael Moore and Spider-Man fight evil in two new summer blockbusters

Mauling Michael Moore

The attack on Fahrenheit 9/11: Fox lays back while ABC and NBC pile on

Eviction Notice

Stolen election, bogus war: Moore finds footage and lets it burn in anti-Bush agitprop

Docs Populi

Raging against the Republican machine

Unsafe At Any Size

My big fat American heart attack: Eating 90 straight meals at McDonald's to prove a point

On Purpose

Celebrating 35 years of activist filmmaking

Lost in America

Bill Murray's Star Vehicle, Gus Van Sant's Double Comeback, and the Year of the Documentary

A '60s Mr. Death Explains the Calculus of Military Slaughter

Bill Murray's Star Vehicle, Gus Van Sant's Double Comeback, and the Year of the Documentary

Taking Another Shot

'Hoop Dreams' Director Steve James Rebounds With 'Stevie'

The Doc Is In

PBS Tries to Stay King of the Real Reality TV

Israeli Films Go Back to the Present

PBS Tries to Stay King of the Real Reality TV

And Baby Makes Two

PBS Tries to Stay King of the Real Reality TV

Explore Your World

Web Documentaries Put You in the Reporter's Seat