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Cutie And The Boxer
Cutie And The Boxer is a moving and insightful journey into the lives of two artists in a relationship that has evolved over forty years. The story begins with the eightieth birthday of Ushio...
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Dirty Wars – The World Is A Battlefield
Journalist Jeremy Scahill begins Dirty Wars driving down an unlit street in Kabul, Afghanistan “…at four in the morning.” Voice over Scahill continues, “… [this is a] story about the seen and...
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THE SQUARE
The Square is the story of the Egyptian Revolution in January 2011, from the point-of-view of a faction of revolutionaries involved from the start of the protests. An earlier film was finished and...
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Twenty Feet From Stardom – 2014 Oscar Best Feature Documentary
In the opening segment of 20 Feet From Stardom, Bruce Springsteen says, “it’s a pretty long walk from background singer to lead… a walk to the front is complicated.” 20 Feet From Stardom, is an...
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MITT
The documentary film Mitt feels like it was edited by Ann Romney. Mitt is a documentary that goes behind the scenes with Mitt Romney, family and political team starting in 2006. After a conference...
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NECESSARY EVIL – SUPER-VILLAINS OF DC COMICS
Necessary Evil – Super-Villains of DC Comics at first glance might seem like a documentary for comic book lovers, and it might be, but hidden just below the surface is a super-villainous plot that is,...
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MUSCLE SHOALS – THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF A SMALL TOWN WITH A BIG SOUND
The documentary film Muscle Shoals is a beautifully shot and edited film directed with sensitivity and class by Greg “Freddy” Camalier. Muscle Shoals is a town on the Tennessee River in Alabama where...
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WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JAMES J. BULGER
James J “Whitey” Bulger is a pathological killer who was king of the Boston mob for about 30 years. He was captured a few years ago after disappearing for 16 years, just before being indicted for...
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OUTFOXED: RUPERT MURDOCH’S WAR ON JOURNALISM
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, directed by Robert Greenwald is ten years old July 2014, but the picture it paints of Murdoch, and Fox News is more relevant and correct now then it was...
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Life Itself
I met Roger Ebert in the Film Department offices at Columbia College Chicago where I taught film production. I believe he was teaching a course as well. We chatted about film and about a documentary I...
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INEQUALITY FOR ALL
Inequality For All is an exceptionally well-made documentary that allows Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary, to explore the widening economic gap between the middle class and the top 1% in the...
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WORLD OF WARCRAFT: LOOKING FOR GROUP
Premiered at BlizzCon in Los Angeles, the documentary, The World of WarCraft: Looking for Group is now being shown on You Tube courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment. It can also be seen on Hulu. The...
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Your Inner Fish
Your Inner Fish is a well made television style documentary, three episode series. Episode 1 – Your Inner Fish, Episode 2 – Your Inner Reptile and Episode 3 – Your Inner Monkey. All three episodes...
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LEVITATED MASS
Levitated Mass, directed by Doug Pray is a documentary that has appeal as an adventure story, exploration of the place of monumental art in America, the work of an artist with and alternative view of...
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GENGIS BLUES
GENGIS BLUES THE STORY OF A BLIND BLUES MUSICIAN’S JOURNEY TO THE LOST LAND OF TUVA ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE WINNER SUNDANCE AUDIENCE AWARD 1999 – 90 minutes – Color – Produced...
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VIRUNGA
Nominated for an Oscar in the Best Feature Length Documentary category 2015, Virunga is a story that takes the viewer into the chaos of the war-torn Eastern Congo and Virunga National Park in the...
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
L Ron Hubbard “A civilization without insanity, without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of...
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JAZZ-A DOCUMENTARY FILM BY KEN BURNS Review by Jim Martin
“…the Constitution, baseball and jazz music. They’re the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created.” – Gerald Early Jazz is one of Ken Burns’ best documentary films. Like most of his...
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American Experience: Walt Disney — Review by Jim Martin
The PBS – American Experience: Walt Disney documentary provides an uncensored, well researched, exploration of Walt Disney, the man, his work, and his passion for achieving goals. The 221 minute...
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Vivian Maier Street Photographer, The Vivian Maier Mystery, Finding Vivian...
Vivian Maier was born on February 1, 1926 in New York City. Around the age of 25 or 26 she started taking photographs, about 100,000 or more pictures by the time she died on April 21, 2009, ninety-nine...
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