Articles tagged "documentary"

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Full Battle Rattle

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jul.08] :. In Full Battle Rattle, the Iraq Simulation and the war are both real and not real, confusing, painful, and horrific, for the refugees working as role players.

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Meet the people behind Abu Ghraib photos

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Jun.08] :. NEW YORK - The old saying claims a picture is worth a thousand words. But in his new documentary “Standard Operating Procedure,” Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris argues that a...

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Ten years in the making, documentary sings Celia Cruz’s praises

by Oscar Corral [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Apr.08] :. MIAMI - Ten years ago, two young documentarians from Miami nestled a letter to Celia Cruz, Queen of Salsa, into a round, disc-shaped film canister, and sent it to her in New Jersey. They wanted her...

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`The Jewish Americans,’ beginning Wednesday on PBS

by Verne Gay [Newsday (MCT)]

[8.Jan.08] :. Ten years ago this month, public TV aired a big, rich, generous six-hour tapestry on Irish Americans and their immigrant experience. Finally on Wednesday night, the big, rich, generous, six-hour...

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War/Dance

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Dec.07] :. As Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine's documentary frames it, survival in Uganda's war zones is political and moral, an effort to sort out the frankly unimaginable horrors that have shaped the children's existence.

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Oswalds Ghost

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Nov.07] :. The question at the center of Oswald's Ghost is less about facts and figures, the unsolved case, than it is about perception.

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My Kid Could Paint That

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Oct.07] :. My Kid Could Paint That asks viewers to ponder how certainty and doubt reinforce one another, how the need for truth creates its own truth.

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Taking it personally: ‘The War’ hits home

by Eric Mink [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[27.Sep.07] :. Dec. 8, 1941, Camp Claiborne, La. My dearest Ethel: You undoubtedly want to know what’s been going on in the past day. Naturally, with Japan’s declaration of war, there was a lot...

 

‘The War,’ documentary series beginning Sunday on PBS

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[23.Sep.07] :. At first, Ken Burns’ monumental new work, “The War,” looks and sounds familiar, and because of that, is almost comforting. There are recognizable Burns touches everywhere. The...

 

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)

by Bill Gibron

[25.Aug.07] :. Manda Bala does what documentaries do best -- illuminate an intellectual or social situation that our otherwise narrow Western viewpoint would never even consider.

 

‘God’s Warriors’: CNN’s Amanpour looks at ‘zealots’

by Joanne Weintraub [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)]

[20.Aug.07] :. They’ve been called radicals, militants or zealots. Christiane Amanpour calls them “God’s Warriors.” The CNN reporter’s three-part series on the subject, scheduled to...

 

Documentary maker pays tribute to World War II veterans

by Gail Shister [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[16.Aug.07] :. The presence of Ken Burns’ father looms large in his son’s latest PBS epic. But viewers won’t know it. An unidentified photograph of Lt. Robert Kyle Burns Jr. is the first and...

 

‘Tale’ seeks to tell the cold truth about the Arctic

by Dixie Reid [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Aug.07] :. SAN FRANCISCO - In the very early days of making the wildlife saga “Arctic Tale,” cinematographer-director Adam Ravetch and his wife, Sarah Robertson, were aboard an ice floe and filming...

 
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Summercamp!

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Aug.07] :. Respectful and perceptive, Summercamp! isn't quite what you expect.

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‘The War’ finds greatness in lives of ordinary people

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Jul.07] :. After a week now of TV critics mixing with producers, executives and stars, one production looms larger and larger over the fall landscape: Ken Burns’ seven-part film “The...

 

Film rallies youths to Hmong cause

by Stephen Magagnini [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[5.Jul.07] :. SACRAMENTO, Calif.—At a recent demonstration at the California state Capitol for Gen. Vang Pao and the other 10 defendants charged with plotting the overthrow of Laos, passing motorists saw...

 

Michael Moore says he’s a filmmaker, first and foremost

by Carla Meyer [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[29.Jun.07] :. Bush basher, big mouth, filmmaker. That’s the usual order of descriptives attached to Michael Moore. But even though Moore gets our attention by blasting the president from the Oscar stage or...

 
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Sicko (2007)

by Bill Gibron

[29.Jun.07] :. SiCKO is sensational. It's perhaps the best movie Michael Moore has ever made.

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Short Cuts - In Theaters: SiCKO

by Bill Gibron

[27.Jun.07] :. SiCKO is sensational. It’s perhaps the best movie Michael Moore has ever made. Granted, there will be those who view his anti-gun screed Bowling for Colombine as his most...

 

The Front Page: SiCKO-fantastic

by Bill Gibron

[18.Jun.07] :. Get ready. It’s coming. And it’s gonna be LOUD! You think the outrage caused by Fahrenheit 9/11 was bad? You think the pro-NRA responses to Bowling for Columbine...

 

Story’s imprint on filmmaker lasted nearly 50 years

by Jeff Strickler [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[15.Jun.07] :. It took Dan Klores only three years to make the documentary “Crazy Love.” But in a way, you also could say it took him nearly 50 years. He was only 9 years old during the summer of 1959...

 

Rory Kennedy Reveals the Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[13.Jun.07] :. Kennedy's film provides a history of the Abu Ghraib scandal and places the events that took place there within the context of the Bush administration's attempt to redefine torture.

 
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51 Birch Street

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.May.07] :. As revealed repeatedly, variously, and hauntingly in 51 Birch Street, marriage is a different struggle every day.

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Two-part documentary Brando, May 1-2 on TCM

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[30.Apr.07] :. A new profile of actor Marlon Brando is—with apologies to Tennessee Williams—stellar, stellar. Brando examines the iconic actor, impassioned activist and conflicted man. The...

 

The Mormons, two-part documentary airing on PBS

by Hal Boedeker [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[30.Apr.07] :. Religion rarely receives any time in prime time. So four hours devoted to Mormonism are going to stand out on the TV landscape. PBS’ The Mormons deserves the attention because the...

 
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The Trials of Darryl Hunt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Apr.07] :. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg's extraordinary documentary, The Trials of Darryl Hunt, which premieres on HBO tonight, traces the case that divided Winston-Salem for 20 years.

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America at a Crossroads

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Apr.07] :. America at a Crossroads offers a range of films -- smart, tough, perceptive, and sad, sometimes uneven and often quite brilliant.

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Rattling the Cage: An Interview with Screamers Director Carla Garapedian

by Chris Catania

[30.Mar.07] :. With a new documentary and the aid of System of a Down, Garapedian tries to get the world talking about genocide.

 
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The Road to Guantánamo (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jan.07] :. While the movie has been termed a "docudrama" for its mix of reenactments, interviews, and archival news footage, it is not nearly so easy or easygoing about "truth" as such a label suggests. The film's complex form corresponds to its story, in the sense that "truth" is precisely what troubles it.

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Iraq in Fragments (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Nov.06] :. A meditation on chaos and coping, the documentary keeps it focus intently on Iraqis.

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Shut Up & Sing (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Nov.06] :. Still, and to their credit, the Chicks will not shut up.

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The Dreams of Sparrows (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Jul.05] :. Director Hayder Mousa Daffar had a dream, to make a documentary about his Iraq. Not, he says, the Iraq that he sees 'on the internet, on the news... bombs and explosions', but a country where people lived, and survived, and aspired for more.

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Power Trip (2003)

by Rob Horning

[8.Jan.04] :. The real villain, as Power Trip portrays it, is the corrupt Georgian government, led at the time by Eduard Shevardnadze.

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