#‘Porcelain War’ Review: Intimate Reflection on Making Art in Wartime Ukraine Is Beautiful but Frustrating

#‘Porcelain War’ Review: Intimate Reflection on Making Art in Wartime Ukraine Is Beautiful but Frustrating

Watching Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev’s visually confident, intellectually insecure documentary Porcelain War is like listening to a recitation from a brilliant poet while somebody sitting next to you is whispering what the poems are actually about. And the person sitting next to you explaining what the poet is trying to say is… twist… also…

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#IDA Documentary Awards: ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Wins Best Feature

#IDA Documentary Awards: ‘Bobi Wine: The People’s President’ Wins Best Feature

Bobi Wine: The People’s President won the top prize of best feature documentary at the 2023 International Documentary Awards on Tuesday night. The film follows music star, activist and opposition leader Bobi Wine amid Uganda’s 2021 presidential election. Accepting the award during the International Documentary Association‘s virtual awards show, co-director Moses Bwayo said, “The awareness…

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#‘Our Body’ Review: Claire Simon’s Intimate and Unflinching Look Inside a French Gynecology Ward

#‘Our Body’ Review: Claire Simon’s Intimate and Unflinching Look Inside a French Gynecology Ward

The hallways of the hospital in Claire Simon’s unflinching documentary Our Body are transient realms. Masked receptionists gently urge patients to give them one more minute. Couples curl into each other while sitting in sparsely populated waiting areas. Attending physicians bounce between rooms and floors, ardently tailed by residents. When the providers enter these spaces…

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#Cyndi Lauper on New Documentary, LGBTQ Fans and Not Loving Her First Recording of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”: “It Was Like Yawn and Boring”

#Cyndi Lauper on New Documentary, LGBTQ Fans and Not Loving Her First Recording of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”: “It Was Like Yawn and Boring”

“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” is one of Cyndi Lauper’s signature songs, but the iconic singer admits when she first recorded the track written by Robert Hazard, she thought: “It was like yawn and boring.” “It wasn’t right for me. I sang his version. I sucked,” Lauper tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It was written…

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#Hot Docs Awards: Christian Einshoj’s ‘The Mountains’ Takes Top Jury Prize

#Hot Docs Awards: Christian Einshoj’s ‘The Mountains’ Takes Top Jury Prize

The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival awarded its best international feature film prize to Danish filmmaker Christian Einshøj’s The Mountains, a portrait of a Scandinavian family struck by a tragedy. Einshøj also won the best emerging international filmmaker award at the Toronto festival, which handed out its top jury prizes on Saturday. Hot Docs opened its 30th…

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#‘Film: The Living Record of Our Memory’ Review: A Dynamic Look at What It Takes and What It Means to Save Movies From the Dustbin

#‘Film: The Living Record of Our Memory’ Review: A Dynamic Look at What It Takes and What It Means to Save Movies From the Dustbin

‘Film: The Living Record of Our Memory’ Review: A Dynamic Look at What It Takes and What It Means to Save Movies From the Dustbin Inés Toharia’s documentary delves into the complex hows and urgent whys of film preservation and restoration. If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends….

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#‘Murder in Big Horn’ Directors on Why “Colonization Is the True Crime” in Their Docuseries

#‘Murder in Big Horn’ Directors on Why “Colonization Is the True Crime” in Their Docuseries

‘Murder in Big Horn’ Directors on Why “Colonization Is the True Crime” in Their Docuseries In Showtime docuseries Murder in Big Horn, directors Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin take viewers on a sobering journey through several higher-profile cases of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Montana. Across its three hours, the duo examines…

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