SPC Grab the Yellow Jersey for Gibney’s Long Awaited Lance Armstrong Docu
Formerly going by the title of Lance Armstrong: The Road Back, and now going by The Armstrong Lie, tipped for a TIFF premiere and most likely a Telluride showing (seeing that Michael Barker and Tom...
View ArticleStacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang,...
With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival, it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year for Venice titles (Joe, Night Moves, Parkland,...
View Article2013 TIFF: Gibney, Posin, Turturro, Kevin Macdonald & Sean Durkin Fill Up...
With only the Discovery, Mavericks and Masters programmes left to be determined, TIFF head programmers dished out the final make-up of the Galas, Special Presentations and TIFF Kids line-ups. Among the...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Alex Gibney’s Finding Fela!
Pop quiz. When was the last time that Alex Gibney did not bring a film to the annual snowflake friendly fest? Even in years where he hasn’t presented a film, it feels as if he has been a mainstay...
View ArticleSundance 2014: Latest From Amir Bar-Lev, Alex Gibney, Steve James, Joe...
2014 is turning out to be a damn fine year for docus in Park City and we’re not even mentioning the Competition line-up here. Amir Bar-Lev, Alex Gibney, Joe Berlinger, Stanley Nelson, Greg Barker and...
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The Armstrong Lie | Blu-ray Review
Lance Armstrong is proof that even the best liars eventually fold to the burden of ugly truths. Under the immense pressures of competitor accusations and threats of legal action against him, Armstrong...
View ArticleWhat’s Up Doc?: Louie Psihoyos Tops Our *New* Monthly Top 50 Most Anticipated...
They often get quite a bit less attention than their fictional brethren, and it doesn’t help that many films fly under the radar while development and filming is underway. To chart this course with a...
View ArticleSundance ’15: Amy Berg, Kirby Dick, Alex Gibney Fire Up Documentary Premieres...
A section that throws the competitive spirit out the window, but actively becomes part of the year-end docu-talk, last year’s dozen minus one offerings included current Oscar front-runner Steve James’...
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The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Continue reading...
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2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic &...
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never Gonna Snow Again) and Nicole Garcia (Lovers –...
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