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REVIEW: The Imposter
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS It’s nothing new for a documentary or another form of nonfiction to play on an observer’s perception of truth as way to increase the engagement of a complex story. In...
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Best Feature Documentary Oscar Shortlist
This would have been an excellent list of nonfiction selections had The Central Park Five not been inexplicably left out. I guess it wouldn’t be the Documentary Oscar category without a few egregious...
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REVIEW: How to Survive a Plague
Haunting and uncomfortably real, How to Survive a Plague uses the passion for its subject and the aggressive passion of it subjects to tell a powerful story of hope. With candid footage that shows...
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Those Oscar Missed: Best Documentary (Short Subject)
CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Documentary (Short Subject) is one of the few Oscar categories that home viewers would probably not be very familiar with. As with the other two short film...
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Those Oscar Missed: Best Documentary Feature
CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Documentary Feature can be an excellent showcase for documentaries that should not be missed. I admit that I don’t get to see as many as I would like to, but when I...
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FINAL 2013 OSCAR NOMINATION PREDICTIONS
While this has been a particularly unpredictable Oscar season, now that the dust has all but settled on the nominations, a good amount of “locks” have surfaced in all categories. What makes this year...
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Oscar Noms Aftermath
Well, all told I didn’t do all that badly, nailing 73% of all categories not icluding shorts (those were a crapshoot) and 80% if you include my alternates. I whiffed on Emmanuelle Riva, and Amour in...
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Oscar Predictions: Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Feature Nominees: Searching for Sugar Man (dir. Malik Bendjelloul) How to Survive a Plague (dir. David France) The Invisible War (dir. Kirby Dick) 5 Broken Cameras (dir. Emad Burnat,...
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The Gatekeepers
Sometimes watching a film on the big screen can make all the difference. I had seen Dror Moreh’s The Gatekeepers in tiny form some time ago and while I didn’t question the film’s emotional capacity, I...
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Holy Grail: The State of Nonfiction
Lately, a number of people have approached me about a troubling trend in documentary films. Basically, there’s a sense that while documentaries have risen to prominence, so too has a lack of...
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