A documentary subject like the comic Andy Kaufman, who died in 1984, has got to be both a dream and a nightmare for a filmmaker. Archival...
Henry Fonda was inarguably one of the greatest actors ever produced by the United States. The Austrian filmmaker Alexander Horwath pushes this self-evident truth further in...
In “Familiar Touch,” Kathleen Chalfant plays a woman whose inner life alternately burns bright and suddenly dims. Her character, Ruth, has an inviting smile and natural...
When the artist Michael Townsend first told the documentarian Jeremy Workman about the time he and his friends lived in a secret apartment tucked inside the...
What is art? Everyone has a different definition, not just at this moment in history but across eras. Art is a pretty picture. Art is what’s...
It took just a few minutes into this 2023 documentary for me to be dumbfounded that I had never heard about this chapter in American history,...
Andy Kaufman became one of the most influential comedians ever in a brief amount of time — really only a decade, from his first national television...
But I suspect Orlean is an outlier, and not just because according to the documentary, at one point one in every 20 American households purportedly purchased...
A lot of TV sports documentaries in the post-“Drive to Survive” world take a broad, rudimentary and personality-driven approach: Make the sport welcoming to new viewers,...
“No Other Land” has racked up festival awards, critical acclaim and the Oscar for best documentary feature. Yet the film, a narrative exposé about Israeli demolitions...
