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How Natasha Rothwell’s Life Brought Her to “The White Lotus”by American Masters | PBS on August 26, 2025Actress Natasha Rothwell returns as Belinda in The White Lotus Season 3, a role that’s earned her two Emmy nominations and cemented her status as the show’s moral center. In this episode, Rothwell shares how she connects to Belinda’s […]
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Alex Gibney’s Long-Awaited Elon Musk Doc ‘Musk’ Heads to Theaters via Bleecker Streetby Jordan Ruimy on August 26, 2025Behind the scenes, I kept hearing that nobody wanted to touch this doc, with distributor after distributor passing on it. It’s finally landed with a low-key studio.Finally, Alex Gibney’s long-anticipated Elon Musk doc, simply titled “Musk,” […]
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How The Editors Behind Emmy-Nominated Chimp Crazy Used Frame.io for HBO’s Wildest Docby Michael Antonicelli on August 22, 2025From over 1,500 hours of footage to two Emmy nominations—here’s how the team behind Chimp Crazy used Frame.io to stay on track and in sync to create HBO’s most-watched documentary…
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This Week In Documentaryby Christopher Campbell on August 22, 2025Last year at this time, I spotlighted the documentaries of Robert Greenwald. It was his birthday, and it was also a big moment for political films, being a U.S. presidential election year. He had just released a new short film. He would go on to […]
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This Week In Documentaryby Christopher Campbell on August 22, 2025
Last year at this time, I spotlighted the documentaries of Robert Greenwald. It was his birthday, and it was also a big moment for political films, being a U.S. presidential election year. He had just released a new short film. He would go on to […]
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Rushes | WGA Expels Park, TIFF Readmits Doc, Criticism under Fireon August 21, 2025Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. To keep up with our latest features, sign up for the Weekly Edit newsletter and follow us @mubinotebook on Twitter and Instagram.NEWS Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941).Park Chan-wook and Don […]
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New Doc on ‘To Catch a Predator’ Will Examine ‘Hunter, Predator, Subject and Spectator’by Charisma Madarang on August 21, 2025“Predators became a sort of true crime story. But the villain wasn’t who I thought it’d be,” said director David Osit
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In Memoriam, An Interview with the Late Documentary Filmmaker Joel DeMott and her partner, Jeff Kreinesby David Leitner on August 20, 2025In my recent Filmmaker conversation with Julia Loktev about the making of her monumental documentary, My Undesirable Friends, I cited the work of the late documentary filmmaker Joel DeMott, because I believe there is a straight line between […]
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Swamp Dogg Set to Open Lunenburg Doc Festby Pat Mullen on August 20, 2025
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted will open the 2025 Lunenburg Doc Fest (LDF). The documentary festival in Nova Scotia, running September 17 to 21, announced today that the doc directed by Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson, and David McMurray will lead this […]
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Why ‘Sly Lives!’ Is a Documentary by Artists for Artists — and for Everyoneby Alisa Sultan on August 19, 2025Director Questlove and producer Joseph Patel tell IndieWire about creating a balance between music nerdom and the life of Sly Stone in their documentary.
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Film Friday: Documentary unpacks the complex history of Edwin Land and Polaroidon August 19, 2025Last week, we shared that a company is creating a new folding instant camera inspired by the iconic Polaroid SX-70. It’s quite nice timing, then, that shortly after we saw that news, we stumbled on Mr. Polaroid, a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) […]
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Grasshopper Film Acquires Non-Theatrical and Digital Rights to Birth Tourism Doc How to Have an American Babyby Scott Macaulay on August 18, 2025Grasshopper Film has acquired North American digital and non-theatrical rights to How to Have an American Baby, directed by Chinese-American filmmaker Leslie Tai, the company said in a press release. The company will release the film tomorrow, […]
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The Netflix Documentary ‘Songs From the Hole’ Will Make You Rethink Our Prison Systemby Jeff Ihaza on August 18, 2025
Director Contessa Gayles’ award-winning film offers a firsthand account of the power of restorative justice
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October 7 Doc ‘The Road Between Us’ Will Screen Only Once at TIFF, Press Shut Outby Jordan Ruimy on August 18, 2025Toronto is heading into September with plenty of momentum, but it didn’t take long for the festival’s first controversy to emerge.Barry Avrich’s latest documentary, tackling Israel’s October 7, “The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue,” […]
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Disney Ditches Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick Docuseriesby Christian Toto on August 18, 2025
It takes a lot to keep Spike Lee quiet. The Oscar winner’s hot takes are legendary, and he weighs in on everything from black cinema to the current White House occupant. Yet he can’t spare a syllable about his just-canceled Colin Kaepernick […]
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Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick Doc Shelved by ESPN Over “Creative Differences’”by Jordan Ruimy on August 17, 2025Spike Lee and ESPN began collaborating on a documentary series about Colin Kaepernick in early 2022. The project was part of Kaepernick’s first-look deal with Disney. The documentary series was titled “Da Saga of Colin Kaepernick.”However, the […]
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‘My Undesirable Friends’ Isn’t Just a Documentary. It’s a Warningby David Fear on August 16, 2025
Julia Loktev’s long, hard look at Russia’s suppression of free speech is a chilling portrait of how authoritarianism works. It looks eerily familiar right now
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Film Friday: Documentary unpacks the complex history of Edwin Land and Polaroidon August 15, 2025
Last week, we shared that a company is creating a new folding instant camera inspired by the iconic Polaroid SX-70. It’s quite nice timing, then, that shortly after we saw that news, we stumbled on Mr. Polaroid, a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) […]
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