'One Child Nation' Illuminates One Horror, Reveals Another
Starting as a personal look at the damages wrought by decades of China's one-child policy, One Child Nation exposes a deeper, baser level of national corruption.
06 Aug 2019
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The Spitfire Rumble of the Rolling Stones: Director Oliver Murray on 'The Quiet One'
For director Oliver Murray, music exists in the air, but the emotional archives of former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman gives viewers a tactile experience of this band's story in The Quiet One.
08 Jul 2019
Cinema of Revelation: 'Minute Bodies' Peers into F. Percy Smith's Legacy
There's some mystery about the quietly conscientious artist and pioneer F. Percy Smith, and Minute Bodies can't penetrate it as easily as he revealed the hidden life of plants.
21 Jun 2019
Scorsese and Dylan: A Match Made in Fantasy
In Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, a cinematic genius and a Nobel Prize-winning musical icon pair for a magical and purposefully deceptive look at rock 'n' roll life in the mid-'70s.
14 Jun 2019
When Experience Becomes Art: Director Ryan White on 'Ask Dr. Ruth'
Documentary director and producer Ryan White discusses the analogy of musical chairs and how it relates to the filmmaking process, including in his latest about America's famous sex therapist, Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
11 Jun 2019
Perfection, Caffeinated: Director Rock Baijnauth on His Documentary, 'Baristas'
Director Rock Baijnauth talks with PopMatters about spending time with Barista Champions and their pursuit of coffee perfection for his latest documentary, Baristas.
20 May 2019
'In the Intense Now' and the Clash and Clangor of Conflict
João Moreira Salles's melancholic documentary, In the Intense Now (No Intenso Agora) stitches together amateur footage of the riots of 1968 to create a riveting rumination on the glee and disillusionment of idealism.
19 Apr 2019
'Hail Satan?' Is Devilishly Fun
Documentarian Penny Lane challenges you to leave behind your preconceptions and give the Devil his due in this irreverent, entertaining look at the Satanic Temple, Hail Satan?
17 Apr 2019
East Meets West in Cold War Vacations 'The Golden Head' and 'Flying Clipper'
Flicker Alley restores Cinerama travelogue spectacles The Golden Head and Flying Clipper.
10 Apr 2019
'Combat Obscura' Just Blows It All Up
In Combat Obscura, a jangled, jarring Afghan War documentary, a Marine Corps cameraman shows the flippant cynicism of combat in ways the military would rather we not think about.
02 Apr 2019
Urgent Art Through the Eyes of Young Men: 'See Know Evil'
Charlie Curran, the young director of the documentary See Know Evil, discusses the importance of telling the story of the equally young '90s fashion photographer phenomenon, Davide Sorrenti.
21 Mar 2019
'Social Animals' Focuses on the Highs and Lows of Instagram-Famous Teens
To say young people's identities are tied up in social media would be a failure to recognize that the digital is now intrinsically part of the real, as evidenced in the documentary, Social Animals.
20 Mar 2019
Racist Violence Is a Family Thing in 'Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?'
Travis Wilkerson's essay film, Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? is stubbornly inward-looking, especially considering its subject matter of white on black violence in America.
14 Mar 2019
Ursula K. Le Guin: Old Soul, New Worlds
Arwen Curry's documentary, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, shows how, in Le Guin's writings, fantasy can be viewed as both a different way of seeing and understanding the past, and a new way of seeing the present -- and what the future could be.
11 Jan 2019
The Allure of 'Mountain': An Interview with Artistic Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti
Richard Tognetti reflects on synergising music and film with the cello-like voice of narrator Willem Dafoe in his work for Jennifer Peedom's gorgeous documentary, Mountain.
14 Dec 2018
Engaging Flow: On Ruttmann's 'Berlin, Symphony of a Great City'
One way to understand the form of Walther Ruttmann's Berlin, Symphony of a Great City, is to see it as producing states of flow that reinforce a flat ontology among humans, animals, machines, buildings, bodies of water, etc.
30 Nov 2018
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