It's a Landslide ... Tie!

AFS Documentary Tour: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

"...The audience for next week's Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 at the..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Decade Under the Influence

10 Years of SXSW Film

"...The plan always was to start a film festival. We started..."

March 7, 2003 Screens Feature

The Examined Life

Prior to a retrospective of his documentaries at SXSWFilm, D.A. Pennebaker reflects on a career spent as a fly on the wall.

"...There are precious few living filmmakers today as influential as documentarian..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Looks Back... and Forward

Documentary Film Pioneer D.A. Pennebaker

"...Husband and wife filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus There..."

April 3, 1998 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Dont Look Back Turns 50

AFS screens D.A. Pennebaker’s early Bob Dylan doc at the Paramount

"...Dont Look Back, D.A. Pennebaker’s black-and-white film of Bob Dylan’s..."

Jan. 17, 2017 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Down From the Mountain

"...Directed by: D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus and Nick Doob. Starring:..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Moon Over Broadway

"...Directed by: D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. Starring: Carol..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The War Room

"...Directed by: D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. Starring: James Carville..."

Nov. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jesus Camp

This film is not a freak show or exposé but rather a call to arms to pick sides in the deepening cultural, political, and spiritual schism between the two Americas of the 21st century.

"...Directed by: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. If you’re not..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Cultural icon Grace Jones, caught raw and wondrous.

"...Directed by: Sophie Fiennes...."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Glastonbury

The sense of total immersion in England's Glastonbury Festival is breathlessly complete in Julien Temple's everywhere-at-once music documentary.

"...Directed by: Julien Temple. Fittingly, for an annual event of..."

April 13, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

Jonathan Demme dreams us back to the golden age of performance films, in which Neil Young unfolds his latest album Prairie Wind in concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

"...Directed by: Jonathan Demme. In this sushi age of methamphetamine..."

March 17, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Lux Æterna

A strange change of tone defines Gaspar Noé's half-a-film

"...Directed by: Gaspar Noé. Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Béatrice Dalle, Abbey..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

Biography of Leonard Cohen's muse can't stop focusing on the artist

"...Directed by: Nick Broomfield...."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kurt and Courtney

"...Directed by: Nick Broomfield. Starring: Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love...."

April 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Elaine Stritch (1925-2014)

Brassy Broadway legend truly at liberty now

"...During her seven decades as a "Broadway Baby" – accent..."

July 17, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Truth or Vérité?

Celia Maysles looks her father's legacy head-on in Wild Blue Yonder

"...A few backstory "program notes" for Celia Maysles' Wild Blue Yonder: Until..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Poetry and Light

The SXSW Film Awards Ceremony

"..."Think of this as a work in progress," said Louis Black, the avuncular..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

(Backroom) Journeys With George (and James)

Revisiting The War Room -- the electrifying '92 campaign documentary starring the Lone Ranger and Tonto (Stephanopoulos and Carville) -- with executive producer R.J. Cutler.

"...Can it be that 10 years have passed since Gov...."

Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Pennebaker's documentary captures the final concert of the Ziggy Stardust tour at the Hammersmith Odeon outside London on July 3, 1973.

"...Directed by: D.A. Pennebaker. Remixed and restored in conjunction with..."

Dec. 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flies on the Wall With Attitude

Cinéma vérité pioneer Robert Drew, coming to town this Wednesday for the Texas Documentary Tour, speaks about the films he has made and the film style he helped create.

"...Robert Drew, at 77 and with 60 films in more than..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Down Home Movie

A conversation with Nick Doob, co-director of 'Down From the Mountain,' a new documentary about the musicians behind the soundtrack behind 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'

"...Nick Doob's film career is a lot like the musical careers..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Elevation

Taking stock of music DVDs

"...Now that all the Top 10 lists for 2001 have been..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...Moon Over BroadwayDir: D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus; Cast: Carol Burnett, Philip..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires

Primary

"...Directed by: Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Terrence Mccartney..."

Feb. 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Tarnation' Sensation

Jonathan Caouette's inexplicably perfect documentary of growing up gay in Texas is the astounding new face of DIY moviemaking

"...while – a long, long while – a film arrives that has the ability to change the way the..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Festival 2003

"...The SXSW Film Festival 2003 has arrived. The Festival begins today, March 7,..."

March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Food-o-File

Beat the heat with foodie TV this summer

"...Food TV has been my beat-the-heat plan so far this summer, and..."

July 1, 2011 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Stories That Tell Themselves

In town for the Texas Documentary Tour, Albert Maysles -- the man behind such famous documentaries as Gimme Shelter and Grey Gardens -- talks about his fierce philosophy of direct cinema.

"...Albert Maysles is one of the kahunas of cinéma vérité..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

From the Panels

Photos by Todd V. Wolfson

"..."This is a very biased panel," Penelope Spheeris joked at "Cinematography vs. Digit-ography." All..."

March 16, 2001 Screens Feature

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