Documentary Category

Documentary

Salim Baba

In these 3D-HD-ADHD times, as film (and its audience) continues to be polarised into sofa- or spectacle-cinema, you could be forgiven for losing sight of what

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

Diary

Tim Hetherington, co-director of one of my favourite films of last year Restrepo, put his life on the line for his work and tragically died covering the events

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Documentary

They Turned Our Desert Into Fire: London Premiere

Mark Brecke’s 2007 They Turned Our Desert Into Fire is a powerful feature documentary that asks how the world can continue to look away whilst the people

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Documentary

Beautiful Liverpool

Following their look into the harsh reality of life as a drug addict in Swansea Love Story, directors Andy Capper and Leo Leigh have reunited for a new

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Documentary

Symmetry

Everynone team up with WNYC’s Radiolab again to bring us a balanced look at the world in Symmetry.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Convento – Jarred Alterman

Sitting somewhere between documentary and art piece, Convento looks at the work of Dutch kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken and the restored monastery in

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Way of the Morris – Tim Plester

Despite living a 50 minute train ride from my house, it took, two planes and the SXSW film festival for me to catch up with actor and director Tim Plester.

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Documentary

The Bicycle City Trailer

We don’t often post trailers on DN but as a daily bike rider myself, Greg Sucharew’s upcoming feature documentary The Bicycle City tapped into my

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Hit So Hard – David Ebersole & Todd Hughes

Around the time of the band’s Celebrity Skin album, original Hole drummer Patty Schemel disappeared from the rocket ride of musical stardom and into a

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011: Dragonslayer – Tristan Patterson

With its solid 10 track album structure, SXSW Best Documentary Feature & Best Cinematography winner Dragonslayer lets us vicariously live in the world of

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Asides, Documentary

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

During a live interview with director Werner Herzog after a screening of his 3D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, journalist Jason Solomons described the

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Documentary

In The Land Of The Free DVD

Vadim Jean’s documentary opens with one of the film’s subjects talking over a telephone line in an interview from prison, before the call is

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