Director Gillian Armstrong discusses her new documentary about the legendary Hollywood costume designer and gives her opinion about the state of the film industry today.
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DVD Review: ‘Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision of Paradise’
"Lee Scratch Perry's Vision of Paradise" is the perfect vehicle for capturing the larger than life Lee Scratch Perry on film.
Read More »San Antonio Film Festival Interview: Robert L. Camina, Director of ‘Upstairs Inferno’
Robert L. Camina discusses the making of his documentary that screened at last week's San Antonio Film Festival.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Janis: Little Girl Blue’ – Janis Joplin Documentary Bio
We see a few scenes of Janis and fellow musicians hard at work in the studio, and plenty of performance clips, but where the film excels is in showing us how her life fed her performances.
Read More »SXSW Film Review: ‘Tower,’ Keith Maitland’s Award-Winning Documentary
Keith Maitland's powerful documentary takes a unique approach in telling the tale of the horrific events that occurred at the University of Texas, Austin, in August 1966.
Read More »SXSW Film Review: ‘Beware The Slenderman’
For some Slenderman is more than a figment of their imagination.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘Rabin, The Last Day’ at the 25th New York Jewish Film Festival
Yitzak Rabin remains a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, a process that many hope will never take place.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘(T)ERROR,’ Sundance Film Festival (2015) Candescent Award Winner
When documentarians Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe secretly filmed Saeed working as a paid informant in an on the ground FBI sting operation, never did they imagine their filming would lead where it did.
Read More »Middleburg Film Festival Review: ‘Hitchcock/Truffaut’
Kent Jones's 'Hitchcock/Truffaut' is a brilliantly executed glimpse into the minds of two masters in cinema.
Read More »2015 Tribeca Film Festival Review: ‘Palio’ in Its World Premiere
The Palio, the phenomenal horse race which has been held every summer since 1238 in Siena, Italy is indescribable in its beauty, its corruptions and its excitement. The Palio's culture and the strategies necessary to understand in order to win the race have been like following a dark passage into the arcane unknown, until now.
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