"Humboldt USA" is a visually majestic portrait of various Americans trying to save what is left of nature and wildlife which uses places named after the 19th century father of ecology as an organizing framework. It will screen May 2 at the Museum of the Moving Image's First Look festival. Go here for showtimes and tickets.
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most important...
Beginning on May 1, the Criterion Channel is presenting a curated collection of the films of Kimi Takesue. "Directed by Kimi Takesue: Crossings and Encounters" will stream three of her most acclaimed features and eight of her shorts.
I reviewed her 2023 film "Onlookers" two years ago. It was an immersive study of tourists shot in Laos constructed of longish master shots of foreigners walking...
Marialuisa Ernst's heartbreaking and inspiring documentary "A Place of Absence" follows her and the Caravan of Mothers, women who have relatives who were disappeared...
ABOVE: Willie Land (far left) and George Adams (right) at the J.H. Rowe School memorial, Jasper,TX, September 16, 2024. Photograph by Alan Govenar.
If you...
Noam Shuster Eliassi's unique career as a pro-peace progressive turned comedian is portrayed in Amber Fares' eye-opening and funny documentary "Coexistance, My Ass." The...
Patrick McCollum has filled his 75 years of life with a colorful assortment of occupations: jewelry designer for UK royalty, kung fu instructor, carnival...
Overlooked pioneer Bunny Yeager left her modeling career to start a highly successful business as a pinup photographer. Once called "the world's prettiest photographer,"...
Suzannah Herbert’s "Natchez" deservedly won the best documentary award at last week's Tribeca Film Festival. It's a fun and trenchant but never preachy analysis...
