Our Pick of the Week is Alex Ross Perry's 'Videoheaven,' an essay film narrated by Maya Hawke about the history and cultural significance of the video store. Watch it now on The Criterion Channel and read our take here: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rachel Grady, co-director of 'Jesus Camp' and 'Detropia,' celebrates her birthday today.
Here's a review of one of her first documentaries, 'The Boys of Baraka': buff.ly/muh47Xg
And here's a review of her latest, 'Folktales': www.nonfics.com/p/mr-nobody-...
Toni Myers's final film, 'A Beautiful Planet,' is being re-released today only in 3D in AMC's IMAX cinemas. The Jennifer Lawrence-narrated feature, capturing daily life for astronauts aboard the ISS, is among our favorite documentaries about space travel, listed here: bit.ly/36bwiyA
Werner Herzog's 'Ghost Elephants' makes its broadcast debut on National Geographic tonight.
Check out our review of the film here: www.nonfics.com/p/this-week-...
And our interview with Herzog and the film's subject, Steve Boyes, here: www.nonfics.com/p/werner-her...
Singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt was born on this date in 1944.
Watch Margaret Brown's documentary 'Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt' and check out a review of the film here: buff.ly/uN1Iw0z
This #WomensHistoryMonth get to know pioneers in politics, civil rights, comedy, and more with these 10 great Women’s History films: buff.ly/esEFrGt
Today in Documentary
Toni Myers's 'A Beautiful Planet' is screening in 3D on AMC IMAX screens
'Enhypen World Tour ‘Walk the Line’ in Japan - Summer Edition' is also in theaters
Werner Herzog's 'Ghost Elephants' debuts on National Geographic
Find more to watch: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...
Agnes Varda's 'The Gleaners & I' is also a favorite of actor and filmmaker Alex Winter, listed here: buff.ly/2LhuV8o
And one of filmmaker Rian Johnson's favorite documentaries, listed here: buff.ly/2LQlLDq
25 years ago today, Agnès Varda's 'Gleaners & I' was released in the U.S.
It's considered by many to be among the best documentaries of all time, as seen here: buff.ly/2vikTNq
You can find our 25th-anniversary review of the classic documentary here: buff.ly/8SmQjZK
“When you’re into storytelling and narrative films, you have to be good at casting. The same thing in documentaries.” - Werner Herzog on choosing Steve Boyes as his latest nonfiction protagonist for 'Ghost Elephants.'
Read our interview with Hezog and Boyes here: www.nonfics.com/p/werner-her...
'Starman,' a documentary about robotics engineer and sci-fi writer Gentry Lee, is now on VOD. We highlighted and recommended the film here: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...
"It’s a profound change in someone’s identity to go from feeling like there is no one to accept you, there is no one like you, there is no one who thinks like you, to discovering that there is." - Penny Lane (who celebrates her birthday today), from our interview with the filmmaker: buff.ly/097fP8t
'Pompei: Below the Clouds' may not be the best Gianfranco Rosi film, but it's still better than a lot of documentaries. You can find our thoughts here: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...
'A Body to Live In,' a biographical documentary about artist Fakir Musafar, opens in NYC today. We highlighted the film in last week's newsletter: www.nonfics.com/p/this-week-...
Al Reinert's Oscar-nominated documentary 'For All Mankind,' about NASA's Apollo program, airs on TCM tonight. You can also find it on this list of the best documentaries about space travel: buff.ly/3QCSqew
'André is an Idiot' is finally in theaters more than a year after winning the Audience Award at Sundance '25. Find our review of the film from its festival premiere here: www.nonfics.com/p/2000-meter...
“I’m too old for running after elephants.” - Werner Herzog on how present he was in the making of his new documentary, 'Ghost Elephants.'
Read our full interview here: www.nonfics.com/p/werner-her...
Penny Lane's ‘Nuts!’ is an off-the-wall documentary about notorious charlatan John Brinkley -- the Citizen Kane of medical quackery. In honor of her birthday today, here's a review of the film from 2016: buff.ly/DHo56kq
Today in Documentary
'André is an Idiot' and 'Pompei: Below the Clouds' are in theaters
The Spielberg-produced 'The Dinosaurs' is on Netflix
The true-crime series 'Friends Like These: The Murder of Skylar Neese' is on Hulu
Find more to watch this week here: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...
Happy birthday to Penny Lane, director of such must-see documentaries as 'Nuts!' and 'Hail Satan?' You can find our review of the latter film, which examines religious freedom and Christian privilege with considerable humor, here: buff.ly/wsjgvuL
The latest edition of This Week In Documentary is out now!
Highlights include new films by Gianfranco Rosi, Werner Herzog, and Alex Ross Perry, plus one of last year's Sundance favorites. Also, a dino docuseries from Steven Spielberg.
Find those and more here: www.nonfics.com/p/week-in-do...
7 documentaries that give the finger to the art world. bit.ly/2ELpz2y
There were women documentary filmmakers from the earliest days of the form, making important films that deserve to be included in the wider history of cinema. Here is a sampling, a list of five filmmakers whose work you should know. #WomensHistoryMonth www.nonfics.com/p/5-women-do...
The 11 best documentaries about space travel: bit.ly/36bwiyA
“We think that becoming multiplanetary and going to Mars is going to save us as a backup plan or a life raft. That is wrong.” - Steve Boyes from our interview with him and Werner Herzog for 'Ghost Elephants
Read the rest here: www.nonfics.com/p/werner-her...
With ‘The Thin Blue Line,' Errol Morris gave us a prototype for today’s true-crime documentary. bit.ly/2IaxnAn
Pier Paolo Pasolini was born on this date in 1922.
His 'Love Meetings' is a funny, brash, and public exploration of human sexuality with real faces and voices. Here's why you need to watch this 1964 documentary more than 60 years later: buff.ly/Ji8Nnwt
'Superman' and 'The Wire' star Wendell Pierce shares his six favorite documentaries bit.ly/2RwQHdb
And speaking of ‘The Aristocrats,’ here’s a discussion of the funniest documentaries of all time. It’s definitely up there, as it "succeeds in breaking down comedy and still being a riot.” nonfics.com/funniest-doc...
Happy birthday to iconic magician and occasional documentary filmmaker Penn Jillette! We recommend celebrating by watching 'The Aristocrats,' which he co-directed, and 'Tim's Vermeer,' which he co-wrote and narrated. Here's our review of the latter: buff.ly/vJHmBfZ
