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    Woodstock Film Festival 2026: My Journal

    I got a press pass for the Woodstock Film Festival and my friend Adam Schartoff (host of the great–nearing 1000 episodes!--Filmwax podcast, WKZE DJ and a programmer for the Woodstock Film Festival) invited me to stay with him while I attended it. Here is my diary of my four days at what turned out to be one of the most fun and intimate film...

    Every Film & TV Series I Watched in 2025

    FILMS I SAW IN 2025 (unless dated, released this year) The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed (2023) My First Film (2024) The Damned (2024) A Real Pain (2024) Bigger Than Life (1956) The Andersonville Trial (1970) His Girl Friday (1940) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) Sherlock Holmes: The Secret Weapon (1942) The Spider Woman (1944) The Woman in Green (1945) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) Destination Tokyo (1943) Dressed to Kill (1946) Terror...
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    Two Docs about Coal: “King Coal” on PBS POV and “The Devil Put the Coal in the Ground” (Streaming July 9)

    Two documentaries about the coal industry’s ruthless exploitation of workers and natural resources in the Appalachian mountains are required viewing for anyone who cares...

    More Tribeca 2024 Documentaries

    “Emergent City” documents the struggle of longtime residents of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York to stop the Jamestown investment group from...

    TRIBECA 2024 Documentaries: Introducing the Hagiography Index

    There are so many documentaries which profile a single person–an artist, musician, writer, politician–or group of allied people that I find it useful to...

    “Shelf Life” at Tribeca 2024

    When Americans think of cheese it is usually cheese burgers or those horrible cellulose “cheesy poofs” beloved by Cartman in “South Park.” Orange, mild...