Category: Documentary
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An audacious premise holds up against daunting circumstances in this insidious look at pro-Russian propaganda taking over a small village school.
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This barebones documentary, filmed while Jafar Panahi was banned from making films by the Iranian government, is a testament to what one can do with limited resources and strict censorship.
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Looking at David Lynch as more than an iconic filmmaker, this quiet yet insightful documentary looks at Lynch’s first and most overlooked passion. When David Lynch passed earlier this year, I was stunned. I had put Blue Velvet on my watchlist for a few years at that point, but Lynch’s death put a glaze over…
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Eleanor Coppola’s archival footage of her husband’s trials during the filming of Apocalypse Now (1979) remains one of the finest examples of behind-the-scenes footage ever. In one of the most legendary shots of the 1979 Vietnam War classic Apocalypse Now, Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen in full commando garb, ascends from a lake, his…
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