by Radheyan Simonpillai on March 28, 2023

Gianfranco Rosi’s intimate new documentary In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis follows the pontiff as he confronts contentious issues around the worldA lot is said during the quiet moments in Gianfranco Rosi’s In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope […]

by Cath Clarke on March 28, 2023

Despite tales of harrassment by players (and spectators) this documentary is a feelgood look at being part of a community, getting stuck in – and picking up dog pooYou really don’t have to give two hoots about football to get a kick out of this […]

by Diane Garrett on March 27, 2023

Davis Guggenheim’s “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” will open the eighth edition of Chicago’s Doc10 documentary film festival on May 4. About Fox’s life, career and work as a public advocate for Parkinson’s research, “Still: A Michael […]

by Craig Phillips on March 27, 2023

“Besides a well, one does not thirst. Besides a sister, one does not despair.” — Nüshu poem Inspired by a bestselling book that featured Nüshu, filmmaker Violet Du Feng was surprised at how little she and most Chinese people knew about the […]

by Phuong Le on March 27, 2023

This voyeuristic account of an eccentric who broadcasts himself hunting naked never meaningfully addresses his paradoxical existenceHaving resolved to extricate himself from the chains of civilisation, Nils Leidal has taken solitary refuge among the […]

by Sean O’Hagan on March 27, 2023

She fled rural Ireland and hit the Big Apple just in time to capture Lydia Lunch, James Chance and the post-punk scene take off. Now back in her home country, she relives those turbulent yearsIn 2014, the Irish Times ran a profile of the film-maker […]

by Diane Garrett on March 25, 2023

As the market for independently made documentaries continues to dry up, regional film festivals have become essential to filmmakers hoping to sell their docs. At this year’s Sarasota Film Festival, which kicks off on March 25, 36 documentaries are […]

by Leo Barraclough on March 24, 2023

Documentary specialist Autlook Filmsales closed a raft of sales at a vibrant market during the Copenhagen documentary festival CPH:DOX. “Subject,” directed by Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera, got picked up by Sweden’s SVT, Denmark’s DR, […]

by Leo Barraclough on March 24, 2023

Swiss sales agency Lightdox has acquired the international rights to feature documentary “On the Edge” by Nicolas Peduzzi, which just had its world premiere at Copenhagen documentary festival CPH:DOX in the DOX:AWARD competition, and received a […]

on March 24, 2023

The compelling artist profile doc “Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV” plays like a non-fiction biography that is also an art history primer. More detailed critical or historical context might have enhanced director Amanda Kim’s already […]

by Leo Barraclough on March 24, 2023

GlobeScreen Auditoriums has taken French rights to “Blix Not Bombs,” a documentary about former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, who was given the task of looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, in the period running up to the U.S.-led […]

by Leo Barraclough on March 23, 2023

In the mesmerizing and strangely beautiful documentary “Matter Out of Place,” which world premiered in International Competition at the Locarno Film Festival and screens at CPH:DOX on March 26, Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter looks at how […]

by American Masters | PBS on March 23, 2023

A compelling novel can transport us into worlds unknown. Novelist Jennifer Egan has mastered this inventiveness of fiction with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “A Visit from the Goon Squad,” and in her newest book,”The Candy House.” In this […]

by Andrew Pulver on March 23, 2023

While too much time is spent on 1966 and all that Matthew Lorenzo’s profile draws out a hitherto unseen vulnerable side to the striker turned insurance salesmanThe current flood of football documentaries shows no sign of abating; the recognition […]

by norman lebrecht on March 23, 2023

Meredith Willson – America’s Music Man Click here to watch Those of us who only know his name as the man who wrote The Music Man will be fascinated as I was to find out just how important Meredith Willson  was in the history of not only […]

by Daniel Kreps on March 22, 2023

American Movie director Chris Smith will attempt to tell the story of beloved art rock weirdos

on March 22, 2023

Documentaries have a helluva war to wage against algorithm-fed attention spans, and the glut of documentaries in the streaming era. It’s an understandable problem only won in the short-term with such heavy-handed filmmaking seen in “Waco: […]

by Marlow Stern on March 22, 2023

Docuseries Waco: American Apocalypse reexamines the deadly Waco siege between messianic madman David Koresh and his Branch Davidians vs. the FBI