Plot: So well-regarded was the documentary Crumb (1994) that the failure of it and of the same year's equally acclaimed Hoop Dreams (1994) to result in Oscar nominations caused a media furor which forced the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to ... Read More
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Doc Talk is a bi-weekly column about documentaries and the issues related to non-fiction cinema. Typically I like to tackle important issues and themes concerning documentaries, such as the ethical concern with filmmakers getting too close to their...
This week the first two films of cult director Terry Zwigoff get the Criterion treatment. Zwigoff's debut film, the documentary Louie Bluie (1985) tells the story of Howard Armstrong, a fiddle and mandolin virtuoso who ages ago recorded one of Zwigoff's...
The new documentary Winnebago Man (2 screens) may seem like a lightweight entertainment, based on an accidental viral video phenomenon, but in a way it has more potential than many heavier documentaries. Any documentary about a single, living subject has...
I know people have said this every year since digital video became a viable filmmaking tool, but 2007 really has been a great year for documentaries. Still, it takes more to impress me than a film about the war or the environment, and cute penguins only...

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