Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Last night I finally caught up with the terrific documentary The Art of the Steal which premiered to good reviews at Toronto in 2009. I can happily report that they’re well deserved.
At the story’s center is the multi-billion dollar private collection of impressionist and post impressionist art amassed by Dr. Albert C. Barnes in the [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
The anti-dolphin slaughter docutainment The Cove swam away with the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, the Outstanding Achievement in Production and the Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography awards from the Cinema Eye Honors. I thought this group was organized to right the yearly wrongs of the Oscars, yet the populist pandering of The Cove is [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
The Directors Guild of America’s documentary nominees:
Agnes Varda – The Beaches of Agnes
Sacha Gervaisi – Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Mai Iskander – Garbage Dreams
Robert Kenner – Food, Inc.
Louie Psihoyos – The Cove
Geoffrey Smith – The English Surgeon
Of the above, only Anvil! The Story of Anvil and The English Surgeon failed to make the Oscar short [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
If you live in New York and you’re eager to catch up on a few of this year’s Oscar short-listed documentaries, the fine folks who bring you the Tribeca Film Festival every year will be screening 6 of the 15 short-listees on January 8 & 9, 2010 at Tribeca Cinemas.
Now is your chance to see [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
We all love the creatures, but this expose of dolphin slaughter in Japan is little more than a grisly bit of rabble rousing.
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Posted on November 18th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
For better or for worse, here are the 15 documentaries that will vie for the Oscar next March.
I haven’t seen all of them, but I can tell you No Impact Man should’ve been included in favor of one of them. Here’s a hint: it rhymes with The Shmove.
I’m not terribly shocked to see Michael Moore’s [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Jerry Mundy, Joan Gaudet and Bill Knight
The excellent PBS documentary program POV is screening The Way We Get By for Veterans Day tonight and I recommend you check it out. It tells the moving story of a group of Bangor Maine senior citizens who have taken it upon themselves to greet soldiers coming in from [...]
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Posted on November 7th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Louie Psihoyos’ button-pushing anti-dolphin slaughter documentary The Cove walked away with 7 nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors Thursday afternoon including the top award, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking.
Burma VJ and Food, Inc. received 5 nominations each also including the top prize.
Outstanding Achievement In Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Burma VJ, Anders Ostergaard
The Cove, Louie Psihoyos
Food, [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
South Park takes on The Cove
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Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Capitalism: A Love Story to expand with free screenings tonight in select cities.
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