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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.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

Documentary Films and Programs Malkmus, Stephen Pavement (Music Group) Pavements (Movie) Perry, Alex Ross Pop and Rock Music

‘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.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Aldeas A New Story (Movie) Documentary Films and Programs Francis Popes Scorsese, Martin

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.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

Documentary Films and Programs Malkmus, Stephen Pavement (Music Group) Pavements (Movie) Perry, Alex Ross Pop and Rock Music

‘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?

By David Renard