AFI DOCS 2015 (Days 1 & 2)
Another year, another great set of documentaries! Last year it seemed the festival had more of a theme. This time around, I saw a lot of different kinds of stories.…
The Salt of the Earth
I've been a fan of Sebastião Salgado's work for decades, probably beginning with his photographs of the gold miners of Brazil's Serra Pelada in the mid-80s. Beyond being beautiful images,…
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2015
Film festivals are a lot of fun, but kind of exhausting, too. I headed to Durham, NC last weekend for the Full Frame Festival, one of the premier documentary festivals…
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
Back in the 90s I liked Nirvana's music, though I wasn't what I would call a big fan. But when lead singer/songwriter Kurt Cobain killed himself, I was shocked and…
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
As a photography major in college, I studied all the "famous" photographers and their "important" images. But what we did not see were photographers of color and their important images.…
Citizenfour
In January of 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras began receiving emails from a mysterious person who only identified himself as "citizenfour" and who had information about US government surveillance on a…
AFI DOCS 2014 (Days 3&4)
The last two days of the festival I spent in AFI's Silver Spring theaters. All the films were shown in both the downtown DC venues and at the AFI home…
AFI DOCS 2014 (Days 1&2)
As Arty Chick, I am a great lover of the documentary genre and this year's AFI DOCS in Washington, DC sated my docu-hunger quite well. As with any festival, there…
Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey
The AFI Documentary Festival opened in Washington, DC on June 18th with a selection that proved both informative and entertaining: Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey. I’ve been living under a rock,…
Citizen Koch
If you've never heard of the Koch Brothers, Charles and David, then this film could give you a bit of an introduction to the enormous power they currently wield in…
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden
This documentary recounts the strange but true tale of a group of Europeans in the 1930s who decided to leave the insanity of the modern world behind and move to…
Finding Vivian Maier
A couple of years ago, an unknown but super talented street photographer's work started showing up in art blogs and around the net. The images shot between the 50s and…
The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer’s Oscar nominated The Act of Killing has got to be one of the most unsettling documentaries ever made. In it, men who murdered thousands (some estimates are 1…
The Square (Al Midan)
The Square is an extremely engaging documentary that puts you right in the middle of Cairo's Tahrir Square during the first 2 years of the still unfolding Egyptian revolution. It…
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Mainstream Chick’s 2013 Year in Review
I don’t particularly like lists – especially where movies are concerned because so much depends on what you're hoping to gain, and the kind of mood you’re in. I generally…