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Documentary

Written and directed by Nanette Burstein

I can’t think of another documentary that felt so much like narrative fiction. American Teen follows four kids in their last year in a Warsaw, Indiana high school. They apply for college, they get drunk, they fall in and out of love. In other words, they do what [...]

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Documentary

Written by Christopher Trumbo
Directed by Peter Askin

Trumbo walks a fine line between performance art and documentary. Like any conventional showbiz biodoc, it delivers plenty of film clips, old photos, home movies, and interview clips of people close to the subject. But it also spends much of its time on famous actors (Joan Allen, Michael Douglas, [...]

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Political Documentary

Directed by Errol Morris

We all know Lynndie England…or we think we do. She’s the young, seemingly carefree soldier photographed taunting prisoners in those infamous Abu Ghraib prison photos. In other words, she’s the very bad apple that ruined the worldwide image of the brave American soldier.
Errol Morris want you to see England and [...]

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Documentary

Directed by Daniel Gold and Judith Heifand

The first question Everything’s Cool brings to mind is “Why do we need another documentary about global warming?” The people distributing Everything’s Cool must have aksed that themselves, and came up with an answer: “Because this documentary about global warming is funny.”
But calling Daniel Gold and Judith [...]

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Documentary

Produced and directed by Gary Hustwit

Director Gary Hustwit clearly feels passionate about typefaces. So do the graphic designers he interviews. Some consider the ubiquitous san serif font for which the movie is named to be brilliant and almost sacred–the perfect choice for everything. Another, only half joking, blames Helvetica for the Iraq war.
Unfortunately, Hustwit [...]

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Music Documentary
Written and directed by Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher

You’ve got one night–Friday, November 9–to catch Dirty Country at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. And if you like raunchy humor, you should catch it.
Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher of Found Footage Fame (or Found Footage obscurity) built this documentary around Larry [...]

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Documentary
Written by Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes
Directed by Bill Haney

Catch this film if you need another reason to feel guilty about eating sweets.
In fact, catch this film if you care about basic human decency. It’s one of the best documentaries of the year.
Billy Haney’s [...]

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Documentary
Written and directed by Doris Dörrie
Cooking and Buddhism make a tasty combination in Doris Dörrie’s documentary. And in the world view of its subject, Edward Espe Brown–Zen master, gourmet chef, and author of The Tassajara Bread Book. The camera does little more than follow Brown as he gives cooking classes, discusses the [...]

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