Plot: Changhua Zhang and Suqin Chen are a couple from a rural village in China's Sichuan province. Frustrated with their lack of employment opportunities, they traveled to the industrial city of Guangdong and took jobs with a large textile firm, making ... Read More
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I usually hate doing end-of-year lists like this. As only a part-time reviewer of films, I tend not to see the majority of the 'best' until long after the next year has begun. I still haven't had a chance to see 'Marwencol,' for instance. And that's cited...
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...
Pick the worse situation: a documentary filmmaker keeps the camera rolling as a teenage girl is beaten by her father; a documentary filmmaker intervenes in the above situation, befriends the girl, pays her a cut of the film's profits and ultimately helps...
I've had a feeling that this was the best year for documentaries ever. But I also thought the feeling had to do with the fact I'm seeing a whole lot more docs now that I'm the resident doc guy here at Cinematical. I also went to my first film festival...
Last week's Trailer Park was solely focused on Comic-Con footage, and the poll results were very, very close. In the end, Pirates of the Caribbean's teaser beat the latest from Tron Legacy by only two votes (26% vs. 25%). My number one pick, Machete, did...
