Documentary
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Watch: ‘How to Sell Drugs’ Is a Doc with Federal Consequences
Why Watch? Let’s face it. Selling six-figures worth of hard drugs in a week is not as simple as standing on the corner shouting that…
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‘Meet the Fokkens’ Trailer Wants You To Say Hello to These 69-Year-Old Twin Prostitutes
‘Meet the Fokkens’ Trailer Wants You To Say Hello to These 69-Year-Old Twin Prostitutes If the Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro movies had been set in…
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‘Invisible War’ Trailer Promises The Biggest Military Cover Up in History (and It’s Not What You…
‘Invisible War’ Trailer Promises The Biggest Military Cover Up in History (and It’s Not What You Think) Fair warning – the trailer for Kirby Dick’s newest…
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Ken Burns Explains His Storytelling Philosophy of Acceptable Manipulation [Video]
One plus one equals three. It’s a fascinating idea in its simplicity and in its wrongness, but it’s the key to Ken Burns’s work. According…
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Cannes Review: ‘Roman Polanski — A Film Memoir’ is Interesting But Sychophantic
Roman Polanski has more than one story to tell. In a lifetime dedicated to storytelling, it is ironic that his own life experiences have been…
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‘The Magic Life’ Trailer Risks Everything For a Dream
A young, lanky man is trying to pay his rent by dropping watermelons out of a hat on Hollywood Boulevard. He’s one of three subjects…
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Hot Docs Review: ‘Sexy Baby’ is an Eye Opening Look at Sexiness in the Cyber Age
by Lauren Flanagan Possibly one of the scariest documentaries I’ve ever seen, Sexy Baby explores the over-sexualization of girls and women in the era of the…
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Hot Docs Review: The Revisionaries
by Lauren Flanagan What would the state of American education be if Ned Flanders controlled what went into school textbooks? Folks in the Lone Star State…
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Foo Fighter Dave Grohl to Make Directorial Debut With ‘Sound City’ Documentary
Sound City Studios in Van Nuys has had a hand in creating 7 of the 500 greatest albums on Rolling Stone’s list. It’s a legendary…