No doubt when most people hear the name Barbara Kopple they think of Harlan County, USA, her emotionally charged film on the struggle of a coal miners
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Ever since the controversial and dramatic first appearance of Titicut Follies in 1967, Frederick Wiseman has steadfastly charted a unique course in
Barbara Kopple's success with American Dream in this year 's Sundance Film Festival documentary competition can only be described as a landslide
Paris Is Burning opens with a dramatic entrance by a magnificent creature named Pepper Labeija. Wearing immense puffs of gold lame, gloves up to her
While many documentary makers struggle to create the illusion of objectivity in their films, Ross McElwee has celebrated the inevitable subjectivity
Almost every review I've seen of Stephanie Black's exceptionally moving 70- minute film concerning the labor abuses suffered by Jamaican men brought
For professional videographers who have followed the rapid evolution of the 8mm format from its humble home-camcorder beginnings, it came as no
CAROL SQUIERS Johnny Carson unerringly summed up the public mood about the war in the Persian Gulf two weeks after the ceasefire, when he had Pentagon
Jean-Pierre Gorin believes that "there is only one thing to do with the sophist, and that is to beat the shit out of him." Those who know Jean—Pierre
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, best known as the man who first revealed the beauty and extraordinary life of the undersea world, is also a pioneering