by David Ehrenstein and Bill Reed The opening of Roger & Me was a few days away when we sat down to talk with its maker (his detractors might say
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If 16mm film production once seemed threatened to near extinction by small format video (and in news gathering, at least, this is indeed a fait
At the Mannheim International Film Week, non-fiction filmmakers don't have to feel like second-class citizens. Documentaries were well represented
The lifting of certain restrictions in South Africa, namely the unbanning of anti-apartheid opponents, including the African National Congress, does
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Every year, when the Oscar nominations for Best Documentary are announced, the groans begin. How could they have nominated that? How could they leave
“It would appear that in the entire history of Soviet art, no sector has made such a phenomenal leap in quality as the documentary cinema," wrote
Several years back, Lee Grant, Barbara Kopple and Claudia Weill were guest speakers at a dinner meeting of the New York chapter of the Academy of
American Chronicles, David Lynch and Mark Frost's new half-hour documentary series on the Fox Network begins and ends with a huge unblinking grey
In his 1958 film Lettre de Siberie Chris Marker announced "I write to you from a far-off country" and in his films since then the inveterate wanderer