Film
The Filmmaker’s a Clown
By Lisa RosmanHere’s a dilemma. Say you always complain that filmmakers need to be more socially responsible, that they need to—not to put too fine a point on it—get off their cinematic asses and make films—no, movies that reflect that, aside from Michael Jordan, Mohammed, or Jesus Christ, nobody plays a greater hand in forming how and what people today believe and do than filmmakers.
Bukowski: Born Into This
By Williams ColeThe cult of Charles Bukowski, based as it is on reverence for the drunken down-and-out poet who speaks the truth, is ready-made fodder for both celebrities as well as hipsters seeking literary street cred.
In Conversation
Jehane Noujaim
By Mridu ChandraControl Room gives us an account of the first 6 weeks of the war in Iraq from the inside of Al Jazeera, the satellite news network based in Qatar and watched by millions in the Arab world.
Docs in Sight: The New Dawn of the Profitable Political Film
By Williams ColeMay 5 wasn’t only Cinco de Mayo but also marked a day of revolution for political documentaries in the arena of popular culture.
Yvonne Rainer: Dancing in the U.S. Interstices of Experimental Film
By Michael Joshua RowinExisting in that obscure space between the didactic, leftist cinema of Godard and the time-based cinema of Warhol, and often lost among better-known legends of the avant-garde stands Yvonne Rainer.
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Everyday People
By Theodore HammSometimes the biggest issues can only be dealt with in the smallest stories.
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