Written by Susan Keyloun Shot over a three-month period, Sisters in Law, a Cannes award-winning documentary which marks its 10th anniversary as part of the DOC Redux line-up, follows two feisty, no-nonsense women in the small village of Kumba, Cameroon as they fight against injustice and inhumanity. Prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Judge Beatrice […]
How do you preserve and continue to use archival material in the wake of the digital revolution? On November 17th, the Archival & Survival series of panels (day 2 of the Insiders Conference), tries to answer this question. Co-presented by the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors (ACSIL) and the International Documentary Association (IDA). We have an Archive Expo going on in the […]
Written by Eugene Rosenberg Saturday night’s sold out screening of The Lost Arcade proved something of a homecoming for a lost tribe -Manhattan’s diehard arcade video gamers. For the last two decades the film’s subject, the “lost arcade” known as Chinatown Fair, provided the last refuge and a sense of place for NYC’s coin […]
Written by Krystal Grow When does a manufactured item become a unique, organic object? How can animal bones in museum cases become beautiful landscapes? What can we learn about human nature by examining the things we throw away? Photographer Rosamond Purcell has spent her entire career asking these questions, and has made remarkable […]
Written by Jenna Belhumeur In The Look of Silence, Oscar-nominated director Joshua Oppenheimer continues his exploration of a chilling society where a genocide in which over one million innocent people perished is merely dismissed as “the past”; Where the stark lack of moral regret coupled with an unwillingness to accept responsibility for actions […]
Danny DeVito has just confirmed his attendance for the North American Premiere of Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story on Tuesday, November 17th, 2015 at 9:30PM at the IFC Center Don’t miss this loving film chronicling the sixty-year partnership of storyboard artist Harold Michelson and film researcher Lillian Michelson, the unsung talents behind a staggering number […]
Written by Megan Scanlon Director Laura Gabbert’s City of Gold is a living, breathing atlas of Los Angeles via the medium of celebrated Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold. The film explores the role of the critic, and in the context of Gold’s relationship with Los Angeles, what surfaces is his impact […]
Take advantage of our 5 for $5 deal ending Tuesday, November 17th at 9:45PM. DOC NYC’s associate programmer Ruth Somalo has hand-picked five films from the DOC NYC line-up that audiences shouldn’t miss. For a limited time, ticket buyers can get a great deal on these titles for only $5 a ticket. Hurry, the offer […]
Tonight at DOC NYC, King Georges will screen at Bow Tie Chelsea Cinemas at 7:00PM with director Erika Frankel and subjects Georges Perrier, Genevieve Perrier and Nicholas Elmi of Top Chef fame. At Philadelphia’s famed French restaurant Le Bec Fin, chef Georges Perrier struggles to stay in business. Should he sell his restaurant and retire or […]
Written by Tomás Salazar Cinema buffs and regular moviegoers alike will appreciate Hitchcock/Truffaut, a film that takes the viewer back in time to the ‘60s, when the French film director François Truffaut interviewed Alfred Hitchcock about his work over the span of a week – interviews which led to the famous book Hitchcock/Truffaut. […]