Documentary

Jane Fonda to appear at Vietnam War-era documentary FTA screening

FTA (1972, Francine Parker), the Vietnam War-era documentary, will be shown in a rare archival screening with former FTA cast member Jane Fonda in person, Monday, February 2 at 7:00pm. Following the screening, Jane Fonda will talk about the film and her work in the controversial antiwar touring show in a discussion moderated by David ….

American Teen DVD review

The Sundance favorite American Teen was recently released on DVD. The documentary introduces viewers to Hannah, Jake, Colin, Megan and Mitch, who are seniors at Warsaw Community High in Warsaw, Indiana. Most of the film’s stars act like they can’t wait to escape the town of their youth. American Teen simply isn’t compelling enough to ….

Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay bringing Cocaine Cowboys TV series to HBO

Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay are executive producing a drama TV series for HBO, based on the Miami cocaine trade documentary Cocaine Cowboys, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Cold Case creator Meredith Stiehm, which Jerry Bruckheimer also produces, is writing the pilot for the show. Billy Corben’s 2006 documentary, profiled the early days of cocaine ….

Newark to get documentary treatment on Sundance

The Sundance Channel will air a new documentary series, focused on the challenges facing New Jersey’s largest city, Newark, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker, along with Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin will produce the new series. Called Brick City, the series will center on Newark Mayor Cory Booker, the city’s residents and ….

SnagFilms to premiere doc Haze simultaneously with Hamptons Film Festival

SnagFilms CEO Rick Allen recently announced that Haze, a documentary film introduced by Robin Wright Penn, will premiere simultaneously on SnagFilms and at the Hamptons International Film Festival. With its focus on the death of a young Colorado University fraternity pledge, Gordie Bailey, due to alcohol poisoning, Haze is a documentary that explores a range ….

SnagFilms to commemorates 9/11 with online film retrospective

SnagFilms, which brings nonfiction films to the web and promotes viral web distribution through virtual movie theater widgets, recently announced its first annual September 11th Remembrance in Film, with a slate of five documentary films, featuring the critically acclaimed 7 Days in September. The films will be available in their entirety, without commercial interruption, at ….

Michael Moore feature film Slacker Uprising to go online for free

I just read on Yahoo News that Michael Moore’s next feature film, Slacker Uprising, will be made available for legal downloading from the net for three weeks, starting on September 23, 2008. Moore says he was inspired by Neil Young and Radiohead, to release his new film online and for free, after previously considering a ….

Documentary attempts to inspire dialogue during 9/11 anniversary

Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath (2008), the first feature-length documentary film on hate violence following Sept. 11, 2001, will screen across the U.S. next month in a grassroots campaign for deep dialogue about racism, religion, and renewal in America. Divided We Fall follows the journey of 20-year-old college student Valarie Kaur as she ….

Bowling for Columbine film review

Year: 2002 Why is America so violent? In Micheal Moore’s recent best selling book, "Stupid White Men," he raises this question to a pre-911 America and finds fault with the greedy, unscrupulous white men who run the government and corporate America. In his post 911 documentary he takes further aim at their children, in particular ….

Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War One

Year: 2006 Blood and Oil, a new documentary from Inecom Entertainment, was utterly impressive. Director Marty Callaghan, whose previous work includes writing and producing a TV mini-series called The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History, clearly has a strong personal interest in his subject, and conveys a sense of immersive passion as he pursues the ….

Cocaine Cowboys film review

Year: 2006 Billy Corben’s exuberant documentary Cocaine Cowboys not only refrains from the type of overly preachy commentary that we usually see in drug-related documentaries, but it almost comically recounts the bloodbath that was Miami’s cocaine heyday, while delivering more solid reporting and facts than most of its predecessors. Part of the nirvana of the ….

ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM

Genre: DOCUMENTARY Release Dates: FALL 2005 Production Company: HDNet Synopsis:Directed by Alex Gibney, this is the inside story of one of history’s greatest business scandals, in which top executives of America’s 7th largest company walked away with over one billion dollars while investors and employees lost everything. The film benefits greatly from Fortune reporters Bethany ….

GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM

Genre: DOCUMENTARY / HORROR Release Dates: Friday, October 13, 2006 Official Websites: www.starz.com/goingtopieces Taglines: A Starz Oringals Production The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film Production Company: Starz Entertainment Group / Candy Heart Productions Synopsis:“The ‘slasher film’ is brutal and gory, coming of age during the late ‘70s, the bastard child of the horror ….