(photo, left to right: Eleanor Magid and Lois Dodd)
I have so many films to talk about from this month's DOC NYC Film Festival, I've had to break them up into four "roundups." Today I'll review two excellent documentaries about the struggles of women artists in a patriarchal world. Katie Jacob's "Artists In Residence" is a rich, soulful account of three single women artists with...
I reviewed the classic Japanese anime film "Angel's Egg" in 2022 when it screened at the Japan Society. On November 19 a new, remastered 4K edition of the Mamoru Oshii film opens in North American Theaters.
Oshii's film was not a success when it was released in 1985; the near wordless, philosophically minded work later become a cult classic and Mamoru went on to direct...
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...
A follow-up to the 2020 documentary "#Unfit: The Psychology Of Donald Trump," "#Untruth: The Psychology Of Trumpism" continues to examine the authoritarian strategy and...
"Modernism, Inc." is a new documentary about legendary American designer and architect Eliot Noyes. You don’t have to be a fan of mid-century modernism,...
