Three sisters suddenly inherit a lucrative international business that trades in dreams of power, sex and glamor. So how will they all handle their extraordinary legacy? It sounds like the plot of a Jackie Collins pool-side bestseller. But the truth is better than that, for this is the real inheritance of Collins’s three daughters, who […]
Continue ReadingHong Kong’s censors have been given expanded powers to vet films for national security breaches in the latest blow to the Chinese city’s political and artistic freedoms. In a statement on Friday, authorities said the film censorship ordinance had been expanded to include “any act or activity which may amount to an offense endangering national […]
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Screen Time is your curated weekly guide to excellent documentaries and nonfiction programs that you can watch at home. Frederick Bernas and Ana González’s The New Yorker documentary Flamenco Queer You introduce us to Manuel Liñán, a flamenco dancer and choreographer who disrupts the gendered binaries that codify the dance form. As we witness Liñán […]
Continue ReadingThis is a documentary about Australian motor sports legend Jack Brabham that aims to finesse the usual greatest-hits highlights by including some darker material: family strife, on-track bad behavior, behind-the-scenes fallouts. Brabham remains best known for being the only Formula One driver to win the world title in a car of their own construction, and […]
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(Sascha Vaughan) By Elisa Lichtenbaum As part of #PBSForTheArts, a multiplatform campaign from PBS and The WNET Group celebrating the resiliency of the arts in America during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown and reopening, we’re pleased to present a series of artist interviews spotlighting the inspiring pandemic survival stories of artists across the country . From […]
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Essential Doc Reads is our curated selection of recent features and important news items about the documentary form and its processes, from around the internet, as well as from the Documentary magazine archive. We hope you enjoy! The New York Times‘Osayi Endolyn writes about the new Netflix limited series High on the Hog (Dir .: […]
Continue ReadingTO sow and her litter of adorable piglets are the subject of this memorable documentary from Russian director Viktor Kosakovskiy (Aquarela), executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix. Kosakovskiy doesn’t attempt to assume the point of view of the pigs, but for 90 minutes he lives among them, his camera taking up residence inside their barn and […]
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The documentary community is filled with tough pros, but surely all of us can spare a thought for a festival that had to deal with the first outburst of COVID-19 last spring and was forced to work around the pandemic again this year. In Toronto, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival became renowned over […]
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Not long ago, on a perfectly ordinary morning, I glanced down and saw a few words on Messenger from a Facebook “friend.” You know the kind: someone you’ve never actually met, but with whom you have a few friends in common. TRIGGER WARNING: This film contains the following subject matter: Suicide and self harm. If […]
Continue ReadingOne of Australia’s leading coral reef scientists is seen breaking down in tears at the decline of the Great Barrier Reef during a new Sir David Attenborough documentary to be released globally on Friday evening. Prof Terry Hughes is recounting three coral bleaching monitoring missions in 2016, 2017 and 2020 when he says: “It’s a […]
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