cinéma vérité

THE BRINK

Agitprop, Biopic, cinéma vérité, Current Affairs, Documentary, Film, FIVE STARS, Politics, Reviews Blog

March 28, 2019

Documentarian Alison Klayman (“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”) brilliantly contextualizes Steve Bannon’s bizarre racist mission within the many coded ways the…

A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON

American Independent Cinema, Biopic, Capsules Blog, cinéma vérité, Documentary, FIVE STARS, Music, Rock 'n' Roll

May 1, 2018

Not only is Leon Russell’s legacy as one of American music’s most vibrant composers and performers maintained here, so too…

PORTRAIT OF JASON — CLASSIC FILM PICK

African American Cinema, Black Cinema, cinéma vérité, Classic Cinema, FilmStruck, FIVE STARS, LGBTQ, Reviews Blog, Women Filmmakers

March 20, 2018

Shirley Clarke’s 1967 cinéma vérité masterpiece remains a scathing social and character study of race in America for the enigmatic…

THE WOLFPACK

cinéma vérité, Documentary, Reviews Blog, THREE STARS

June 8, 2015

Movies are a big deal for the kids. One brags about the family having over 5000 DVDs. The brothers escape…

THE OVERNIGHTERS

Capsules Blog, cinéma vérité, FOUR STARS

February 26, 2015

The film’s eventual revelation of cracks in Pastor Reinke’s character speaks to a deeper brand of embedded personal treachery. Opportunities…

BOYHOOD — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

cinéma vérité, Criterion Collection, Drama, FIVE STARS, Reviews Blog, Video Essay

July 11, 2014

Just when you thought there was nothing new under the sun, Richard Linklater goes and makes one of the most…

THE ACT OF KILLING

Capsules Blog, cinéma vérité, Docudrama, Documentary, FIVE STARS

July 12, 2013

At once the most micro and meta combination of cinéma vérité, documentary, and docudrama filmmaking techniques ever assembled, Joshua Oppenheimer’s…

HOOP DREAMS — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Capsules Blog, cinéma vérité, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Sports, Sports Drama

July 9, 2013

Steve James’s remarkable example of cinéma vérité tells the problematic journey of high school basketball stars William Gates and Arthur…

JACKASS 3D

3D, Action/Adventure, cinéma vérité, Comedy, FOUR STARS, Reviews Blog, Transgressive Cinema

October 17, 2010

What began as a juvenile MTV series in 2000 has gone on to inspire outbursts of uncontrollable laughter and groans…

THE EXILES

Black and White, Capsules Blog, cinéma vérité, Docudrama, FIVE STARS, Independent Cinema

July 12, 2008

Bold in its visionary attempt to capture an essence of American Indian reality that is evermore significant today for its…

COLE SMITHEY’S CLASSIC CINEMA