“The Lady Bird Diaries” depicts the former first lady as a mass of contradictions.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘The Lady Bird Diaries’ Review: A 1960s First Lady Speaks
Lady Bird Johnson proves an engrossing narrator to her own story and that of a roiling nation.
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‘This Much We Know’ Review: Asking Why After a Friend’s Death
L. Frances Henderson’s intricate debut documentary investigates a suicide, raising plenty of questions, including one about its own ethics.
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‘Albert Brooks: Defending My Life’ Review: Revisiting Past Hilarity
This actor, comic, writer and director is seen in a cinematic retrospective that celebrates his talent, but not always in a critically discerning way.
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‘Youth (Spring)’ Review: Garment Rending
The documentarian Wang Bing examines the cloistered world of young textile workers in China.
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‘A Still Small Voice’ Review: Grant Them the Serenity
This absorbing documentary follows a chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
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‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Takes a Collective Approach to Joy
The filmmaker Paul B. Preciado shares the title role with 20 trans and nonbinary performers to make a point about the cage of identity.
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‘You Were My First Boyfriend’ Review:
In this documentary, Cecilia Aldarondo relives her high school trauma by directing cinematic re-enactments of her adolescent years.
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What Fuels the ‘Manic Creativity’ of Joan Baez
The 82-year-old singer and subject of a new documentary sleeps in a tree, has come to terms with not being a reader and is more interested in upside down than right side up.
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In ‘Subject,’ Documentary Stars Look Back
A talk with the directors Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall about their film that checks in on the subjects of high-profile documentaries.
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‘Subject’ Review: A Question of Ethics
Filmmaking principles come under scrutiny in “Subject,” a documentary about the making of documentaries.
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‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ Review: 50 Years of Off-Kilter Rock
Toby Amies’s documentary dives into the history of the British progressive rock band King Crimson and its chief disciplinarian, Robert Fripp.