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Silverdocs Bookends Fest with Music Docs 'Don't Stop Believin: Everyman's Journey,' Mumford & Sons' 'Big Easy Express'

Festivals

AFI-Discovery Channel's Silverdocs festival, in its tenth year, will open and close with music-themed documentaries. On June 18, Ramona Diaz's "Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey" will open, and Emmett Malloy's "Big Easy Express" will close the Washington, DC event on June 23.

By Sophia Savage
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May 24, 2012 12:20 PM
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Cannes Interview: John and Katrine Boorman Talk 'Me and Me Dad,' 'Excalibur' & '70s 'Lord of the Rings'

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John Boorman has been in Cannes with daughter Katrine to talk up "Me & Me Dad," a documentary about the "Excalibur"/"Deliverance"/"The Tailor Of Panama" director that Katrine filmed over a period four years and that John jokingly says he hoped would never see the light of day...

By Matt Mueller
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May 22, 2012 3:13 PM
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Cannes Market: Robert Altman Documentary In the Works, 'Bob would be happy'

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A documentary on director Robert Altman will be produced by Sphinx Productions and directed by Ron Mann ("Twist," "Comic Book Confidential"). The film will explore the life and work of Altman, who gave the world "M*A*S*H," "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," "Nashville," "The Player," "Short Cuts," "Gosford Park" and "A Prairie Home Companion."

By Sophia Savage
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May 17, 2012 5:18 PM
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Tribeca Fest: Controversial Art Doc 'Portrait of Wally,' Audience Award Winners

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Andrew Shea's art doc 'Portrait of Wally,' which documents the tug-of-war surrounding a controversial Egon Schiele painting, played at Tribeca Saturday night, and earned some strong early reviews: Variety:

By Anne Thompson
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April 29, 2012 3:15 PM
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SFIFF Review: Peter Nicks' Doc 'The Waiting Room'

Reviews

"The Waiting Room" is edited to give the range of emotions observed and experienced in that space, and that range is vast. This is documentary as distilled observation. It’s also as strong an argument for universal health care that I’ve seen in years.

By David D'Arcy
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April 22, 2012 1:41 PM
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Ashland Independent Film Festival: From Taymor and Kashmir to the Kennedys

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The Ashland Independent Film Festival, an 11-year-old intimate spring fest nestled in Oregon's Rogue Valley, reminds me of the early days of Sundance and Telluride.

By Anne Thompson
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April 16, 2012 9:24 PM
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Now and Then: Werner Herzog's Matters of Life and Death

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Paranoia has long been Werner Herzog's preferred tropic, morbidity his comfort zone. His films brim with self-inflicted wounds, crazed schemers, and ruinous hubris. "Into the Abyss" is different; it shifts the frame. We have seen the enemy, and he is us.

By Matt Brennan
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April 16, 2012 1:40 PM
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'Marley' Doc First-Ever to Stream Simultaneously on Facebook with Theatrical Premiere April 20

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Stir it up! Kevin Macdonald's "Marley" will be the first ever film to stream on Facebook simultaneously with its theatrical and VOD debut on April 20.

By Sophia Savage
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April 12, 2012 1:13 PM
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Ex-'Island President" Nasheed Talks Timely Eco Doc': "It's Not Just Us"

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One of the surprise hits to come out of Telluride and Toronto (where it won the People’s Choice Documentary Award) was small political doc "The Island President," which takes the drama of climate change to another level.

By Anne Thompson
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March 28, 2012 3:52 PM
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Ryan Gosling Narrates Trailer for '#ReGeneration' - Our Generation is Apathetic, In Crisis, Not OK (Video)

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With Ryan Gosling's name attached, "#ReGeneration" will reach farther than most documentaries. One of several of the film's producers, Gosling narrates the Phillip Montgomery documentary about disaffected youth and political apathy and how it has contributed to the Occupy Wall Street movement.