It’s Daylight Savings! Spend your extra hour with DOC NYC. Sunday’s films include the family-friendly Sea Monsters 3D, With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story, three collections of short films and lots more! Other films include: Jascha Heifetz was the first modern violin virtuoso. Itzhak Perlman refers to him as a god, and his name was […]
Charlotte Rampling didn’t want a film made about her. “It was difficult to imagine doing a film without it being ego-based,” she said at the screening of Charlotte Rampling: The Look. “It’s sort of a miracle that we’re all here today.” But slowly, over three and a half years with director Angelina Maccarone, the film […]
DOC NYC has learned that Joe Frazier, former heavyweight champion and subject of Tuesday’s film, JoeFrazier: When the Smoke Clears, is in hospice with liver cancer. We regret that he won’t be able to join us, but are pleased to be showing this film about his life. Our thoughts go out to Frazier and his […]
Did you miss the sold-out screening of Lemon? Or Saturday’s showing of No Look Pass? Now you have more chances to see these and other great films: DOC NYC has announced films in six new time slots. Wednesday, November 9 – IFC 12:30 pm SHORTS: VIEWS ON JAPAN 2:30pm THIS SPACE AVAILABLE 4:30pm NO LOOK PASS […]
by Jeff Halpin Robert Flaherty first met Richard Leacock in the Canary Islands, where his son and Leacock were enrolled at Dartington. After a screening of Leacock’s first film Canary Island Bananas at the school, Flaherty told Leacock “someday, you’ll be working for me.” According to his daughter, he accepted the high praise, then muttered […]
Saturday at DOC NYC: Art, music, family-friendly films and more! Note: tonight’s screening of INNI is sold out! Available seats will be released to those on the rush line 15 minutes before the show. Tickets are still available for other great films, including: the US premiere of Calvet, where the French painter Jean Marc Calvet […]
DOC NYC and SundanceNow have joined forces to let you watch a great documentary for free! SundanceNOW has a great selection of award-winning films from directors such as Errol Morris and Kevin MacDonald. Fans of DOC NYC can watch one for free if you they to SundanceNOW.com and enter the code DOCNYC. Stay tuned: SundanceNOW […]
Start your weekend with DOC NYC! Friday’s schedule includes two Midnight Rock Docs, Herzog’s Happy People, State of the Art panel discussions, and lots more! Note: Today’s screening of Lemon is sold-out, but you can line-up for the rush-line; if any tickets become available, they will be released 15 minutes prior to show-time. Don’t want […]
by Laure Parsons Branded content is a hot topic in the doc world, and on the first day of DOC NYC, producers, agencies and brand reps gathered at the Branded Content panel to explore the intersection of corporate interests and the message of documentary. Claudia Strauss, CEO of Grey Alliance explained, “Agencies are looking for […]
A packed house at Werner Herzog’s Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life kicked off the second annual DOC NYC. The film, shown for the first time in New York, explores the human consequences of a triple homicide in Texas. Herzog interviewed the victims’ families and the convicted killers, including a 28-year-old […]