This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Sandy Roupioz Director Jonathan Demme at the DOC NYC screening of his film. In the category of music documentaries, DOC NYC 2012 welcomed Jonathan Demme’s latest production, ENZO AVITABILE MUSIC LIFE, a tribute to Enzo Avitabile, the saxophonist and songwriter who hails from from Napoli, Italy. Demme […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Carrie Nelson Wednesday’s snowstorm prevented director Jorge Hinojosa and producer Ice-T from traveling to New York for the US premiere of ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP. But through remarks given by DOC NYC’s Artistic Director, Thom Powers, they were still able to convey their thanks and […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Iva Radivojevic The Police guitarist Andy Summers at the DOC NYC screening of CAN’T STAND LOSING YOU. Friday night marked a nostalgic look back at The Police through the World Premiere of directors Andy Grieve and Lauren Lazin’s film CAN’T STAND LOSING YOU, a musical journey into the life […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Carrie Nelson ETHEL director Rory Kennedy, right, at the screening of her film with DOC NYC Artistic Director Thom Powers. Much media has been produced about Robert F. Kennedy’s professional legacies and impact. Fewer stories, however, have been told about his personal life and family members. ETHEL is distinct […]
DOC NYC programmer Basil Tsiokos demonstrated incredible texting fortitude on Friday by live-tweeting the Doc-A-Thon panel Get The Money all day. What follows can easily be considered the epic of Storified live-tweets about documentary (at least thus far). Click here for the Twitter goodness.
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Maggie Glass. Director Kevin Schleck speaks at the screening of his film Persistence of Vision. Photo by Simon Luethi. Early on in Kevin Schreck’s PERSISTENCE OF VISION, legendary animator Richard Williams lays out plainly, but exquisitely, the value of animation: “It is capable of doing anything.” As […]
This post was written by DOC NYC blogger Maggie Glass. Director Michelle Major introduced her film VENUS AND SERENA at a kickoff Gala Presentation on Thursday. With many New Yorkers still suffering from the effects of Hurricane Sandy, VENUS AND SERENA–an uplifting story of determination against great odds–was a fitting film to kick off the […]
Musician and actor Jared Leto introduced the film ARTIFACT last night at DOC NYC’s opening night. In retrospect, the genesis of what would become the documentary film ARTIFACT seems pedestrian enough. The members of the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, about to embark on the making of their third album This is War, decided […]
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The philosopher Slavoj Žižek is a world-class connoisseur of cinema. In THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY he teams with director Sophie Fiennes to riff on film clips for their ideological implications both overt and hidden. His eclectic associations encompass The Searchers, Jaws, Triumph of the Will, Titanic, M*A*S*H, Loves of a Blonde, and Brazil as he clicks through capitalism, fascism, consumerism, Stalinism, religion […]