Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just…
Continue ReadingGiven all the hardships of the year just past, it’s certainly understandable that some viewers eschewed some of 2020’s tougher non-fiction storytelling in favor of escapism. But even with —…
Continue ReadingThankful? In 2020? Yes, it’s been a miserable year on a lot of fronts. And this is a mess of an awards season – a morass of delays, rule changes…
Continue ReadingIn the run-up to the election, there were two devastating accounts of how President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner botched the government’s response to the initial shortage of…
Continue ReadingKirsten Johnson’s playful “Dick Johnson Is Dead” has been named the best nonfiction film of 2020 at the fifth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which were announced on Monday morning.…
Continue ReadingLater than usual, the eleven-year-old DOC NYC, America’s largest documentary festival, has finally revealed its influential 15-film Short List. The festival will open in a new online format with a…
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Continue ReadingThe Academy dropped another 33 feature films into the online screening room for members of its Documentary Branch on Oct. 30, giving the Oscars doc race its biggest influx of…
Continue ReadingNeon will remake its documentary from this year’s “The Painter and the Thief” as a narrative feature film along with Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures, the studio announced Monday. “The Painter…
Continue ReadingIn 2016, it became shorthand to look at the presidential election as a movie — the sort of ludicrous, overhyped Roland Emmerich-sized disaster epic that everyone considers trash, even as…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — The election has unleashed an avalanche of documentaries like no season before it. Dozens of films, exploring issues from gerrymandering to white supremacists, have sought to…
Continue ReadingIn a year packed with superb documentaries, the Critics Choice Association Documentary Awards nominations, which honor the best non-fiction achievements of 2020 (released in theaters, television, and digital platforms), will…
Continue ReadingEvery year the zeitgeist hits the Oscar race, and this year is no exception. Academy voters are a liberal bunch, and more than ever, many have been inspired during this…
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Continue ReadingGiven the ongoing nature of the pandemic, it may seem senseless to make a two-hour film that looks back on how the coronavirus ran rampant in the U.S. And yet,…
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