This fascinating though incomplete documentary tells Paul Reubens’s story despite the subject’s doubts about the project.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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Who Took the ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo?
Questions about the credit for a famous photograph from the Vietnam War have divided the photojournalism community for months.
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‘Deaf President Now!’ and the Biases of a Hearing World
The documentary recalls the 1988 protests that erupted at Gallaudet University when trustees rejected deaf candidates to lead it.
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‘My Robot Sophia’: An Unsettling Look Into the Soul of a Machine
This film by Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle skirts gimmicks to examine a creator’s drive to build a humanoid device powered by artificial intelligence.
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‘Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted’ Review: In the Deep End
The movie offers full-on immersion, or perhaps submersion, in the singer-songwriter’s musical world.
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Milestone Films Will Be Given Away to Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive
The distributor’s owners, Amy Heller and Dennis Doros, made the unusual choice to give it away. Their successor is Maya Cade of the Black Film Archive.
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‘Pavements’: A Sly Ode to the Last Band You’d Give the Biopic Treatment
Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing.
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Martin Scorsese Interviews Pope Francis in Upcoming Documentary ‘Aldeas’
The project will highlight scripted short films from international communities along with snippets of a conversation between the director and the pontiff, who died last month.
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‘Pavements’ Blurs Fact and Fiction to Reimagine a Band’s Legacy
The director Alex Ross Perry said Stephen Malkmus of Pavement told him to “avoid the legacy trap.” The result is a music documentary with made-up elements that really existed. What?
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‘Drop Dead City’: When New York Was on the Financial Brink
This surprisingly entertaining film examines the 1975 fiscal crisis that nearly led the city to bankruptcy. The movie’s conclusions remain relevant today.
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‘Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie’ Review: Rolling Another One for the Road
The comedy duo celebrates a partnership that they just can’t quit in this celebratory documentary.