All posts tagged "Documentary"
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Cate Marquis | October 20, 2017
HUMAN FLOW – Review
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei was the subject of a 2012 documentary titled AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY....
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Cate Marquis | October 20, 2017
JANE – Review
In 1957, famed anthropologist Louis Leakey chose three young women to study the great apes in the wild,...
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Cate Marquis | October 6, 2017
MANOLO: THE BOY WHO MADE SHOES FOR LIZARDS – Review
There is a quote near beginning of the documentary MANOLO: THE BOY WHO MADE SHOES FOR LIZARDS from...
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Cate Marquis | September 29, 2017
DOLORES – Review
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the National Farm Workers Union, the person who coined the phrase “Yes, We Can”...
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Cate Marquis | August 11, 2017
STEP – Review
The inspirational documentary STEP follows a girls’ step dance team at a Baltimore charter high school, both in...
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Jim Batts | August 10, 2017
WHOSE STREETS? – Review
This weekend sees the national debut of a documentary that addresses a topic still very much in...
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Cate Marquis | August 4, 2017
CITY OF GHOSTS (2017) – Review
In March 2014, the military group calling itself the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, took over the...
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Jim Batts | August 3, 2017
AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER – Review
As the Summer slowly dissolves into Fall, film goers have been regularly bombarded, on an almost weekly...
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Cate Marquis | June 30, 2017
LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD – Review
Did you ever wonder how the Middle East got to be the way it is? Many experts believe...
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Cate Marquis | June 2, 2017
KEEP QUIET – St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Review
Thursday, June 8, at 1 PM, Plaza Frontenac Cinema England/Hungary; in English and Hungarian with English subtitles; 92...
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Jim Batts | April 20, 2017
BORN IN CHINA – Review
Here’s something to remember next time you go to a big trivia fund-raising night. If there’s a...
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Michael Haffner | March 12, 2017
True/False Film Festival 2017: DINA – Review
Many of the films at this year’s True/False Film Festival spotlighted men and women who have been...
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Cate Marquis | February 3, 2017
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO – Review
Despite its awkward title, director Raoul Peck’s documentary I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is a surprisingly timely...
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Jim Batts | January 18, 2017
TOWER – Review
One of 2016’s best documentaries is another look at a seminal moment in America’s struggle with crime and...
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Jim Batts | July 28, 2016
EAT THAT QUESTION: FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS
With the recent release of WEINER, TICKLED, and DEPALMA in the last few months, 2016 is turning out...
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Jim Batts | July 14, 2016
TICKLED – Review
Documentaries are often tagged with an unfair “rep’. Lots of people think of them as ultra somber, serious...
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Jim Batts | February 26, 2016
THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON – The Review
2015 may just be noted in the annals of cinema history as the year that Hollywood really went...
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Jim Batts | November 14, 2015
SLIFF 2015 Review : ARCHIE’S BETTY
Here’s an idea that many kids (and adults) dearly wanted (or still want) to do. I’m talking about...