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May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
South by Southwest Announces 2025 Audience Awards
The Accountant 2, Luv Ya, Bum! take home prizes
"...Austin confirmed its reputation as a hotbed for documentary filmmaking as South by Southwest announced its audience awards..."
March 17, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Tugging at True-Crime's Seams in SXSW Doc Zodiac Killer Project
Charlie Shackleton on genre conventions, and why he subverted them
"...of the endless tropes of the modern true crime documentary...."
March 8, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
ATX TV Festival 2022: The Staircase
Showrunner Maggie Cohn on this year's true crime smash
"...his wife, Kathleen Peterson. Originally told in the 2004 documentary feature of the same name, now it has been..."
June 10, 2022 Screens Post by Rod Machen
Austin Film Festival Announces 2020 Award Winners
Austin-linked films Blinders, Horton Foote win
"...Tragic diving documentary Dave Not Coming Back, and family drama Paper Tiger..."
Nov. 2, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
The fashion photographer's contradictions, from the glamazons who knew him
"...Helmut Newton would have despised the idea of a documentary of his life. "Most photographers are terribly boring people,"..."
July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Oscar Shorts 2020
Best of the Oscar animated and live-action shorts
"...package (you'll have to take time to see the Documentary shorts separately)...."
Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review
Sea of Shadows
Eco-crime-documentary follow the deadly impact of cartels and animal smugglers
"...if there’s any hope of saving it. National Geographic documentary Sea of Shadows is hell-bent on reminding us of..."
Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Sam Russek
AFS Doc Days Gets Cool With Miles Davis
Three day celebration of true tales returns for second year
"...Doc Days, the Austin Film Society's documentary mini-festival, comes back swinging for its second year with..."
April 26, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Free Solo
Staggering mountaineering achievement mixes vertigo with wonder
"...long dared humans to conquer it. In the kickass documentary Free Solo, 33-year-old professional mountain climber Alex Honnold takes..."
Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The engineering secrets of a Hollywood great
"...quote from Hedy Lamarr opens this long-overdue cinematic biographical documentary of the perennially underestimated actress. When "underrated" is applied..."
Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
Errol Morris' latest doc profiles Boston photographer
"...Ostensibly, this is a documentary profile of Elsa Dorfman, a photographer known for her..."
July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Tower Lands on Oscars Doc Shortlist
15 advance, including local film about the UT shootings
"...Grand Jury Award and the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature. Turns out those twin prizes were a harbinger..."
Dec. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble
The director of Twenty Feet From Stardom does another music doc
"...This is the drumbeat that drives Morgan Neville’s new documentary. The Oscar-winning director of Twenty Feet From Stardom films..."
July 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
SXSW Film Announces Audience Awards
SXSW Film announces Audience Awards and additional screenings
"...in total agreement about the best Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature Competition films at SXSW 2015. In both tallies,..."
March 21, 2015 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Great Invisible
Doc looks at the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the lives of residents in the Gulf area.
"...A documentary with an agenda, The Great Invisible solemnly recounts the..."
Dec. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me
Touching documentary captures Campbell's final tour, which is made more poignant and brave because of the musician's worsening Alzheimer's.
"...This documentary about the final concert tour of country-music crossover legend..."
Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Citizenfour
When Edward Snowden was in that hotel room in Hong Kong sharing his initial intel about NSA surveillance, Laura Poitras' was there with a camera to film his disclosures.
"...After watching Pulitzer Prize-winner Laura Poitras’ new documentary about the early-on brouhaha surrounding government whistleblower Edward Snowden,..."
Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Overnighters
The fracking boom in Williston, N.D., has created hard times in the land of plenty as shown in this devastating doc.
"...A social-justice documentary that packs a visceral emotional wallop to the heart..."
Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
20,000 Days on Earth
This documentary (for which Nick Cave receives a script credit), gets inside the artist's notoriously fussy creative process.
"...What’s great about this “documentary” – Cave gets a script credit alongside the directors,..."
Oct. 3, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Dog
Dog Day Afternoon is a film about a wildly true bank robbery; as conveyed by John Wojtowicz in this doc, the story gets even nuttier when told from the horse's mouth.
"...great critical acclaim and box-office success. The raggedly entertaining documentary The Dog recounts this and other chapters in Wojtowicz’s..."
Aug. 22, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Life Itself
The life of Roger Ebert is celebrated in this documentary by the director of Hoop Dreams.
"...This deeply loving documentary by the gifted Steve James (Hoop Dreams), evokes the..."
July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black
Before You Know It
There's an aging LGBT community that is only getting bigger and older, and this documentary investigates that process – in ways both specific and universal.
"...The award-winning documentary Before You Know It chronicles the winter years of..."
June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Tim's Vermeer
Vermeer must have painted by using a camera obscura and Tim Jenison spends four years proving the method in this fascinating documentary by Penn & Teller.
"...brief running time and revelatory story, this neat, fascinating documentary ought to be required viewing for art history students..."
March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Alison Klayman's doc is as much a rallying cry for freedom of expression as it is a portrait in progress of an artist whose career is ongoing.
"...the parting slogan in Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, the documentary portrait of China’s best-known dissident artist, who has recently..."
Aug. 10, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Mansome
Will Arnett and Jason Bateman are our guides in this Morgan Spurlock documentary that looks at men's relationship with their body hair in contemporary America.
"...The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, is developing a hit-or-miss documentary style that makes one wonder if he's stretching himself..."
May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
The cult following that surrounds the audio tapes of a couple of slurry drunks that were surreptitiously recorded in the late Eighties is given the documentary treatment.
"...Matthew Bate's documentary recounts the birth of that cult, which counts Devo..."
Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Tabloid
Errol Morris finds a real character for his documentary subject this time – scandal magnet Joyce McKinney, who allegedly abducted and raped a Mormon missionary.
"...Errol Morris. In his three decades of highly acclaimed documentary-making, Oscar winner Errol Morris (The Fog of War: Eleven..."
Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Trollhunter
Wayward trolls threaten human life in this delightfully bizarre Norwegian film.
"...um, troll to this fantastical and wholly unique faux documentary from Norway, land of giants. Well, not entirely unique:..."
June 17, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Forks Over Knives
This documentary presents evidence that a whole-foods diet can prevent the occurrence of cancer, heart disease, and Type 2 diabetes.
"...given in this tightly constructed, thoroughly convincing, and dull-as-dirt documentary. It's ostensibly aimed at everyone, and in particular Westerners..."
