Author: Nonfics
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Sundance 2015: The Visit is an Inconsistent Documentary of Our First Contact With an Alien
Sundance Film Festival The Visit introduces itself via title card as “a simulation.” While its central scenario is fake, all of the people interviewed within the…
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Slamdance 2015: Batkid Begins is Obviously Adorable and Heartwarming From Start to Finish
KTF Films Kurt Kuenne’s best-known film is Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, which is famous for being possibly the most…
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Sundance 2015: College Rape Doc The Hunting Ground Has Value But is Artistically Displeasing
Sundance Film Festival A quarter of all women who attend an American institution of higher learning will be sexually assaulted. An infuriatingly tiny fraction of the…
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Sundance 2015: Finders Keepers Maintains a Brilliant Balance of Comedy and Tragedy
Sundance Film Festival Clay Tweel is a name that should be known to any documentary fan. After serving as an associate producer on Seth Gordon’s The…
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The 14 Best Documentaries of 2014
2014 is the year documentaries began to take over. At least this seemed to be the case. The most acclaimed fiction film of the year,…
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What Might Have Been Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Documentary of 2014?
What Might Have Been Nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Documentary of 2014? Bond360 Another year of Golden Globes nominations, another year of documentaries being…
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A Quidditch World Cup Player and a Spectator Review the New Documentary ‘Mudbloods’
Bond360 The crunch of brooms and bones. The roar of the crowd. The occasional cry of an owl. These were the sounds of my first…
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Guide to the 8 Documentary Shorts on the 2015 Oscar Shortlist
Weary Traveler This past weekend I was at the New Orleans Film Festival, serving as a juror for the event’s impressive documentary shorts program. Out…
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10 Essential Documentaries About Sex and Sexuality
Sex is still a taboo topic, to one degree or another, in most parts of the world. Historically, art has played a tremendous role in…