Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "documentary"

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Hitchcock/Truffaut **** (2015, Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Richard Linklater) – Movie Review

Alfred Hitchcock: ‘Silent pictures are the pure motion picture form. There’s no need to abandon the technique of the pure motion picture, the way it was abandoned when sound came in.’ In director Kent Jones’s […]

Mar, 05

The Wolfpack **** (2015, Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo) – Movie Review

First-time director Crystal Moselle‘s documentary about the six Angulo brothers is the most impressive and essential personal biography since Amy. Locked in safe from the supposedly harmful outside world by their parents at home in […]

Aug, 26

A Fuller Life ***½ (2013, Samuel Fuller, James Franco, Jennifer Beals, Joe Dante, Tim Roth, Wim Wenders, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bill Duke) – Movie Review

A Fuller Life is a must-see documentary on the life and movies of maverick film director Sam Fuller, poignantly directed by his daughter Samantha, who bursts with curiosity and pride about her dad. Friends and […]

May, 12

Erebus: Into the Unknown *** (2014) – Movie Review

Director Charlotte Purdy’s powerful and compelling documentary tells the true story of the New Zealand cops who tackled the aftermath of one of the world’s worst ever aviation disasters. On 28 November 28 1979, a jet with […]

Jan, 07

The Celluloid Closet **** (1995, Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Gore Vidal, Farley Granger, Harvey Fierstein, Quentin Crisp, Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Hanks) – Classic Film Review 656

Joint directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s 1995 invaluable documentary is a revealing and entertaining look at cinema’s 100 years of hidden agendas. Armistead Maupin’s screenplay is based on Vito Russo’s landmark book on gays […]

Jan, 08

The Kid Stays in the Picture – Classic Film Review 373

  Directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgan in 2002, this superb movie documentary profile of legendary film producer Robert Evans, is a film-buff’s delight. It’s one of the great movies about the movies. Success, […]

Nov, 06

Seduced and Abandoned – Film Review

Alec Baldwin goes to the Cannes Film festival, surprisingly for the very first time, along with the maverick film director James Toback, and they go on a hilarious quest for financing for their next feature film, a preposterous […]

Nov, 05

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