Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: This past Friday saw the release of Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro,” a documentary that speaks to our present moment through the writings and actions of the late James Baldwin. What other documentaries — recent or not — might help people better understand and / or respond to the state of the world today?
Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
“The state of the world today” is too big a matter for any one documentary, because there’s no one state of things, there’s an overwhelming diversity of experiences — and the history of movies is as much the history of the ones that it doesn’t show.
This week’s question: This past Friday saw the release of Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro,” a documentary that speaks to our present moment through the writings and actions of the late James Baldwin. What other documentaries — recent or not — might help people better understand and / or respond to the state of the world today?
Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
“The state of the world today” is too big a matter for any one documentary, because there’s no one state of things, there’s an overwhelming diversity of experiences — and the history of movies is as much the history of the ones that it doesn’t show.
- 2/6/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Fernando Eimbcke, Olga Kurylenko and Joshua Oppenheimer will make up the Best First Feature Award jury at this year's Berlinale. More announcements today: Forum Special Screenings will include Tatiana Brandrup's Cinema: A Public Affair, Alejandro Galindo's Cuatro contra el mundo (Four Against the World, 1950), Leo Hurwitz's Strange Victory (1948), Louis de Witt's Joe Bullet (1973) and three newly restored films by Kon Ichikawa. Generation Kplus has added "Sonthar Gyal’s touching story of a family," Gtsngbo (River), "set in the Tibetan steppe," to its lineup. Also added is Levan Akin's Cirkeln (The Circle). » - David Hudson...
- 1/22/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Fernando Eimbcke, Olga Kurylenko and Joshua Oppenheimer will make up the Best First Feature Award jury at this year's Berlinale. More announcements today: Forum Special Screenings will include Tatiana Brandrup's Cinema: A Public Affair, Alejandro Galindo's Cuatro contra el mundo (Four Against the World, 1950), Leo Hurwitz's Strange Victory (1948), Louis de Witt's Joe Bullet (1973) and three newly restored films by Kon Ichikawa. Generation Kplus has added "Sonthar Gyal’s touching story of a family," Gtsngbo (River), "set in the Tibetan steppe," to its lineup. Also added is Levan Akin's Cirkeln (The Circle). » - David Hudson...
- 1/22/2015
- Keyframe
From John Gall, art director for Vintage and Anchor Books, comes word that legendary publisher and film distributor Barney Rosset has passed away at the age of 89. Gall points us to a lively profile by Louisa Thomas that ran in Newsweek in late 2008: "Rosset's publishing house, Grove Press, was a tiny company operating out of the ground floor of Rosset's brownstone when it published an obscure play called Waiting for Godot in 1954. By the time Beckett had won the Nobel Prize in 1969, Grove had become a force that challenged and changed literature and American culture in deep and lasting ways. Its impact is still evident — from the Che Guevara posters adorning college dorms to the canonical status of the house's once controversial authors. Rosset is less well known — but late in his life he is achieving some wider recognition. Last month, a black-tie crowd gave Rosset a standing ovation...
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
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