Dramas about couples (“Cat Person”) and families (“A Thousand and One”) tackle complex lives; documentaries on Judy Blume and Nikki Giovanni entertain.
Category: Documentary Films and Programs
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‘A Thousand and One’ and Nikki Giovanni Documentary Win at Sundance Film Festival
Other prizes go to “Scrapper,” about a British girl and her estranged father, and “The Eternal Memory,” about a Chilean couple coping with Alzheimer’s.
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‘The Mission’ Review: A Substantial Service Undertaking
Mormon teenagers travel to Finland for missionary service in this documentary that struggles to offer new insights.
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‘Filmmakers for the Prosecution’ Review: Exposing Third Reich Atrocities
Jean-Christophe Klotz’s documentary retraces the steps of two men tasked with gathering evidence for the Nuremberg trials.
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Sundance, Once a Hotbed for Film Deals, Tries to Find Its Footing
The kind of independent movies that the festival showcases have struggled at the box office, spurring worries about what the market would be like this year.
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‘Geographies of Solitude’ Review: Exploring a Wild Island
Part nature film, part biographical portrait, this experimental documentary takes its cues from its setting, an island off mainland Nova Scotia.
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‘The Last Autumn’ Review: The Majesty of Shepherds
This observational documentary about an aging farming couple on the Icelandic coast unfolds like an elegy to a life lived off the land.
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‘The Ability to Say Yes’ to Stories Long Neglected on the Screen
People of color are financing a number of movies at the Sundance Film Festival focused on elevating underrepresented voices.
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Film Forum Director Karen Cooper to Step Down After 50 Years
Karen Cooper, who took over the nonprofit cinema in 1972 and transformed it into a $6 million-a-year operation, will step down in July after five decades.
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‘January 6th’ Review: Scenes of a Riot
A new documentary from Gédéon and Jules Naudet recounts the day of the U.S. Capitol attack.
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Robert Caro Relaxes by Listening to People Drum in Central Park
The biographer and subject of the documentary “Turn Every Page” talks about his loyalty to the Giants and the Knicks, Zooming with classmates and falling under the spell of Captain Hornblower.