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Review: Oscar Nominated Short Documentaries Chronicle Life’s Hardest, Most Meaningful Moments

St Louis Superman

If you plan to see the Oscar Nominated Documentary Shorts Program, now playing at the Music Box Theatre, keep in mind that all five films are presented as a single […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • January 31, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: We Believe in Dinosaurs Details the Fight Over Creationist “Ark Park” in Kentucky

    We Believe in Dinosaurs

    We Believe in Dinosaurs is the title of the handsomely made documentary feature directed by Clayton Brown and Monica Long Ross, but it’s also a statement repeated by several of […]

  • Matthew Nerber
  • January 26, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Citizen K Traces One Man’s Rise and Fall in Putin’s Russia

    Citizen K

    Perhaps one of his more complicated and layered profile documentaries, the latest from filmmaker Alex Gibney (an Oscar winner for Tales to the Dark Side), Citizen K explores the bizarre […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 23, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Renegade Emergency Medical Service Drives Midnight Family

    Midnight Family

    Although it didn’t make the cut as an Academy Award nominee earlier this week, the documentary feature Midnight Family did make the 15-title Oscar shortlist, and for very good reason. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 17, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: On One Critic’s Life, Words and Influence on Film in What She Said

    What She Said

    It seems odd to be reviewing a documentary about a film critic whose influence is still a big part of the critical landscape, in the same way it was surreal […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 10, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Dance, Film and History Intertwine Beautifully in Cunningham

    Cunningham

    Merce Cunningham died in 2009 at the age of 90, and in his decades-long career as a dancer and choreographer, he redefined American modern dance as we know it. Fond […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • January 2, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    2019 in Review: Best Documentary Films of the Year

    Hail Satan?

    The reason I separate out documentaries into their own Best of the Year list is not because I feel they should be judged differently than feature films, but because I […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 2, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: With 63 Up, a Documentary Film Series Looks Back on Life

    63 Up Tony

    In 1964, filmmaker Michael Apted was in his early 20s and working as a researcher on a project called Seven Up!, a sort of experiment in documentary filmmaking that interviewed […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 26, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: American Dharma Doesn’t Offer Any New Insight into Steve Bannon’s Dangerous Political Influence

    American Dharma

    It’s true for all of us, to one degree or another, that we exist in a sort of information bubble when it comes to news, politics, current events and more. […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 12, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Planet Enters a New, Uncertain Era in Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

    Anthropocene

    As difficult as it is to imagine, the Earth’s condition—both in terms of climate and physical characteristics—is not more a result of human shaping and interference than forces of nature. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 22, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In The Kingmaker, Politics, Glamour, Corruption and the Woman at the Center of It All

    The Kingmaker

    Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield is used to working with subjects of a certain scale. Her 2012 documentary Queen of Versailles chronicles the building of what would be the country’s largest residential […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • November 14, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Man, His Music and a Movement in Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    Miles Davis Birth of the Cool

    I always look forward to documentaries made by Stanley Nelson, a filmmaker who seems to have taken it upon himself to tell some of the most fascinating and necessary stories […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 4, 2019
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