Inside Job

This documentary, which is narrated by Matt Damon, illuminates the U.S. economic crisis with detailed yet engaging analysis.

"...however, illuminates the situation with this detailed yet engaging documentary analysis, which is narrated by Matt Damon. Inside Job..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

This celebratory documentary skips briskly over the 60-plus-year career of one of jazz's pre-eminent and most original singers.

"...Directed by: Robbie Cavolina and Ian McCrudden. A celebratory documentary that skips briskly along to cover a 60-plus-year career,..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Theresa Everline

The Beauty Academy of Kabul

This documentary shows how real power flows not from the barrel of a gun but rather a can of hairspray.

"...Mermin. The questionably good news put forth in this documentary is that vanity apparently survives everything. The wars with..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

On the Line, Two Shots

The Texas Documentary Tour revisits Steve James' 'Hoop Dreams'

"...whether there was any chance that the three-hour videotape documentary, spanning five years in the Dickensian life and career..."

April 7, 2006 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Passing Show

This rock documentary about musician Ronnie Lane can be described in one word (or is it three?): Ooh la la.

"...Williams and James Mackie. I can describe this rock documentary about musician Ronnie Lane in one word (or is..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rock School

More than his Philadelphia school of rock, it's blustery instructor Paul Green who becomes the true subject of this documentary.

"...Directed by: Don Argott. Maybe this documentary plays better in places outside Austin, the so-called live..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Inside Deep Throat

This documentary about the heady days of porn – when "deep throat" became a household expression and everyone viewed the movie Deep Throat as a breath of fresh air – is informative yet lacking historical rigor.

"...to underwrite a wide national release for this NC-17-rated documentary indicates something – and I don't think it's that..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Five Obstructions

This sublime documentary, which recounts a bizarre battle of creative wits between Danish film director Jørgen Leth and the notorious Lars von Trier, also features a segment animated by Waking Life's technical wizard Bob Sabiston.

"...film, "The Perfect Human," and here, in a sublime documentary recounting a bizarre battle of creative wits between Leth..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Touching the Void

Two glacier climbers face the worst and live to tell about it in this harrowingly intimate documentary report.

"...lies. Filmmaker Macdonald (who received an Oscar for his documentary on the Munich Olympics, Four Days in September) is..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Finding Their Tuva

The Texas Documentary Tour screens 'Genghis Blues,' the Belic Brothers' next step in living a 'kickass, adventurous life and meeting cool people.'

"...we were in high school, we saw this PBS documentary about the physicist Richard Feynman and his attempt to..."

Oct. 10, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Whole

This documentary explores the hidden world of amputee fetishism.

"...Melody Gilbert. Amputee fetishism – who knew? Whole, the documentary debut of filmmaker Melody Gilbert, shines a remarkable burst..."

Oct. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Family Circle

Don Howard's new documentary turns Texas football, cheerleading, and weddings into an anthropological model -- with a little help from Jung.

"...to tunnel his way even further out of the documentary "box." He's cocooning something new, something without a label,..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Derrida

If you don't already worship Derrida, this film won't change your mind.

"...Kirby Dick. It figures that the organization of a documentary about Jacques Derrida, the father of the philosophical movement..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Step Into Liquid

Surf's up! It's The Endless Summer: The Next Generation.

"...Directed by: Dana Brown. Bruce Brown’s 1966 documentary on surfing and the surfing lifestyle, The Endless Summer,..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary

"...face. And for 90 minutes, that’s what this German documentary helps us do. The film captures the recollections and..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Through a Student's Lens, Quirkily

Texas Documentary Tour presents "10 Under 10"

"...the "10 Under 10" program, presented by the Texas Documentary Tour. Each of the jury-selected films is under 10..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Jim Brown's Shades of Gray

Spike Lee's latest documentary, Jim Brown: All American, looks at the turbulent life of the "greatest football player ever." Lee and Brown will be in town Tuesday to present the film at the Westgate Cinema.

"...in Austin on Nov. 5 to present his new documentary, Jim Brown: All-American. He will be accompanied by the..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Law and Order

"...Wiseman. Trained as a lawyer, Frederick Wiseman aims his documentary camera on social institutions and uses its lens as..."

March 26, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ask Questions First, Shoot Later

In 1967, Hobart Ison shot and killed Hugh O'Connor, who was filming a documentary on Ison's property. In her documentary Stranger With a Camera (showing at the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday, November 1), Elizabeth Barret examines the context that brought these two men together -- one with a gun and one with a camera.

"...Kentucky, tragedy in which Appalachian landowner Hobart Ison killed documentary filmmaker Hugh O'Connor -- the stranger with a camera...."

Oct. 27, 2000 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

American Pimp

"...black entrepreneurs known as pimps. This film is a documentary that explores “pimpology”: its psychology, economics, lingo, couture, and..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

42 Up

"...42 Up is the latest entry in the world-famous documentary series that has been widely praised as a fulfillment..."

May 12, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Genghis Blues

"...Some people and events are just waiting for a documentary to coalesce around them. The remarkable Genghis Blues is..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild Man Blues

"...Directed by: Barbara Kopple. Two-time documentary feature Oscar winner Barbara Kopple (American Dream, Harlan County,..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

4 Little Girls/One Huge Legacy

The Texas Documentary Tour

"...and Sam Pollard's Academy Award-nominated 4 Little Girls, a documentary about the 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of the..."

April 3, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Nico Icon

"...actress, mother, death maiden -- Icon. This new German documentary about the brief but fascinating life of the unique..."

May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hearts of Darkness

"...Directed by: Fax Bahr. Starring: George Hickenlooper and Documentary Footage Directed By Eleanor Coppola. This documentary about the..."

Feb. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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

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