Documentary Category

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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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011 – Sound It Out – Jeanie Finlay

It just wouldn’t be right if at least one of our SXSW interviews didn’t come from the musical raucousness that is Austin’s 6th Street and

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Documentary

SXSW: By the Numbers

If I’d have shot my view of Austin during SXSW all you’d get is a succession of queues, cinema screens and more than my fair share of Alamo $5

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011 – PressPausePlay – David Dworsky & Victor Köhler

Give the masses access to cheap creative tools and you wont have to wait long before they use them to express themselves in ways you never imagined, but does

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2011 – Inside America – Barbara Eder

Kicking off our SXSW 2011 interviews is director Barbara Eder, whose drama/documentary mixed feature Inside America looks at the lives of six high school

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Documentary

A Brief History of Title Design

I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve mentioned The Art of the Title Sequence website in my life (I usually try to throw it into a conversation at

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Documentary

The Hardest Fight

In John Hicks’ The Hardest Fight 70 year old boxer and bare knuckle fighter Dave Payne paints a picture of the deterimintion needed to be a boxer in the

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Documentary, Music Video

An Island

In the many years I’ve been attending gigs since being introduced to the wonders of live music, an unwritten rule of etiquette has persisted; in the warm

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Documentary, Music Video

The Legendary: A Film About The Roots

Cam Be is perhaps overselling matters a tad by titling this The Legendary: A Film About The Roots; comprising as it does mostly concert footage of the hip hop

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