[01/28/21 – 09:00 AM]HBO Documentary Films Announces “In The Same Breath” by Nanfu WangDirected with a deeply personal approach by Nanfu Wang, who was born in China and now lives in the United States, the film explores the parallel disinformation campaigns carried out by the leaders and the devastating impact on the citizens of both […]
Image Credit: MTV MTV Documentary Films announced a one-of-a-kind initiative to make the award-winning documentary 76 DAYS available for free via Virtual Cinema to customers at over 300 North American theaters on January 23rd, the first anniversary of the start of COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China. The aim is to commemorate this historic date and […]
Image Credit: MTV MTV Documentary Films to debut Too short a life, by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, double Oscar® winner, and winner of the Tribeca Film Festival My father the mover by director Julia Jansch on Friday, Jan.22 at 7 p.m. ET on Pluto TV. An official selection from the DOC NYC Film Festival 2020 Shortlist and […]
graham Greene declared Patricia Highsmith “the poet of apprehension” in the preface to her collection of short stories from 1970 Eleven. There is no better way to describe the American writer, whose psychological thrillers combine fluid literary freshness with a nervous quagmire – a combination, in turn, that filmmakers have been trying to translate since […]
IIn the Villages, the sprawling and planned retirement community of Central Florida billed as “Disneyland for the Elderly,” there is a ubiquitous presence: the golf cart. Hybrid transportation abounds in the baby boomer mecca that is now larger than Manhattan (and, from 2010 to 2017, the fastest growing metropolis in the United States), weaving through […]
The cinematic language of The Reason I Jump, an ambitious documentary that attempts to simulate the sensory experience of nonverbal autism, is elementary, constructing one isolated detail at a time. A living room, for example, emerges from the cascading metallic tide of an electric fan, the thrill of sizzling oil in a frying pan, the […]