“Documentary cinema … I’m not talking about propaganda or film journalism or brilliant programs about animals or culture. I mean making films out of contemporary reality.” Continue reading “Director Lindsay Anderson on Britain’s ‘Free Cinema’”
Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues
MOMA –Thursday, Nov 15 at 7 PM . Theater 1 –
Robert Frank’s legendary, suppressed film on The Rolling Stones. Continue reading “Robert Frank’s Cocksucker Blues”
Film Forum
FILM FORUM —
MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, by Alex Gibney / November 16 – November 29
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE and ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM) exposes the abuse of power in the Catholic Church: and a cover-up that winds its way from the row houses of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through the churches of Ireland, all the way to the highest office of the Vatican. Continue reading “Film Forum”
The Films of Jean Rouch
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES —
HERE AND ELSEWHERE: THE FILMS OF JEAN ROUCH, PART II / November 8 – November 15
Anthology Film Archives partners with the French Institute/Alliance Française (FIAF) for an extended look at the extraordinary films of anthropologist Jean Rouch, one of French cinema’s true visionaries. The selected films build their energy from the friction of unexpected encounters. Like the retrospective itself, these films pair here and elsewhere, bringing radically immediate images of contemporary life into contact with dreams, trances, flashbacks, and utopias. Continue reading “The Films of Jean Rouch”
Forest Of Bliss
UNION DOCS — BROOKLYN
“A classic of nonfiction cinema.” FOREST OF BLISS directed by Robert Gardner
“ … an unsparing but ultimately redeeming account of the inevitable griefs and frequent happinesses that punctuate daily life in Benares, one of the world’s most holy cities. The film unfolds from one sunrise to the next without commentary, subtitles or dialogue. It is an attempt to give anyone who sees it a wholly authentic though greatly magnified view of the matters of life and death that are portrayed.” Continue reading “Forest Of Bliss”
Doc Talk: Jeff Malmberg on making Marwencol (Oct. 11, 2011)
Q&A with Jeff Malmberg speaking on the making of his film, “Marwencol”, 2010.
Doc Talk: Alan Berliner (March. 2011)
Q&A with Alan Berliner last March 2011. “Translating Edwin Honig: A Poet’s Alzheimer’s”, a short film which preceded his new feature “First Cousin Once Removed” recently shown at NYFF 2012.
DONYA RAVASANI AT DOC/NYC FESTIVAL
AMERICAN IMAM by DONYA RAVASANI — AT DOC/NYC
American Imam by Doc Studies 2011 grad Donya Ravasani will be featured in this year’s DOC/NYC festival. Donya’s profile of a Brooklyn African-American mosque leader will screen alongside the feature doc Building Babel, on the ‘Ground Zero’ mosque-community center. Continue reading “DONYA RAVASANI AT DOC/NYC FESTIVAL”
The New School Doc Studies 