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For a seemingly straight forward music documentary, Adam Bhala Lough’s The Carter is tough to pin down. The film somehow manages to enlarge and diminish Lil Wayne at the same time. It makes him seem less interesting as it allows him to inhabit every crevice of your imagination. It is...

http://www.dailymotion.com/videox61isz If you spend enough time watching Vincent Moon’s Take Away Shows, it begins to seem like the world is populated almost entirely by well-heeled, whimsical young people, strolling the streets of the world’s older cities with guitars, charming...

Cross-posted with The Film Panel Notetaker “It is like running a treadmill and never going fast enough” filmmaker Ashley Sabin said of her efforts to bring her low-budget documentary to audiences. Union Docs February 7th panel Documentary Distribution and Access offered a chance to try...

There are personal documentaries, and then there are personal documentaries. Caveh Zahedi makes the latter. In his feature-length films, which usually mingle fiction with autobiography, he has chronicled his long-term sex addiction, shown us his attempt to convince his father and teenage brother...

When the Orphan Film Symposium assembles in April for its seventh biennial meeting, it will review more than 40 hours of footage over the course of four days. The OFS plays host to films and videos that, over the course of time, have lost their contextual home: newsreel outtakes, educational and...

Cinema Eye 2010 co-hosts Esther Robinson and AJ Schnack About halfway through 2010’s Cinema Eye Honors, host and Co-chair AJ Schnack busted out a Mad Libs pad, and called on audience members by name to provide him with the parts of speech necessary to finish the gag. The people he called on,...

As a sequel to The Yes Men (2003), The Yes Men Fix The World is more Die Hard 2 than Aliens. Directing themselves, anti-corporate jesters Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum pick up where Dan Ollman, Sarah Price, and Chris Smith left off, continuing their adventures in slightly different settings...

There is no one younger than 50 who has done more to preserve the legacy of cinema’s mid-century avant-garde than Pip Chodorov. His Re:voir video company distributes VHS and DVD copies of classic experimental films by Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs, and many others, for home and...

S&Man skitters around a couple of big, interesting questions about our relationship to images of violence and cruelty. But as the film barrels towards its conclusion, it becomes apparent that, instead of knotting the various strands that comprise the film, director JT Petty has...

The videos collected in Chen Tamir’s Life Stories program are as much about biographers as the lives they depict. Though each of these four works are more-or-less straight interviews, none of the artists here are content to let us believe that their documentation provides us with a direct...