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Posts Tagged "documentary"
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power *** (2017, Al Gore) – Movie Review
Al Gore’s timely and essential sequel to An Inconvenient Truth (2006) accentuates the positive and shows how close we are to an energy revolution – if only we do a little bit more! Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon […]
Man of Aran **** (1934, Colman ‘Tiger’ King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane) – Classic Movie Review 5720
Writer/ cinematographer/ director Robert J Flaherty’s notable 1934 documentary feature film of life on the Isle of Aran in North Ayrshire features the real fishermen and crofter people, and shows their various struggles to live. (By […]
Let It Be ***½ (1970, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr) – Classic Movie Review 4875
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s candid, award-winning 1970 British music documentary Let It Be is 81 minutes of Beatles bliss, photographed shot in 16mm in Technicolor by Anthony B Richmond, and edited down from hundreds of hours […]
The Sorrow and the Pity [Le Chagrin et La Pitié] ***** (1969, Pierre Mendès-France, Christian de la Mazière) – Classic Movie Review 4500
Co-writer/ director Marcel Ophuls’s celebrated 1969 documentary film is an overwhelming experience both emotionally and intellectually. It investigates with masterly command and the utmost integrity France under the Nazi Occupation through a shrewd blend of […]
Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens] ***** (1935, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich) – Classic Movie Review 4476
‘Heil! Heil! Heil!’ Producer-writer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s legendary infamous 1935 Nazi film of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens], is astonishing as documentary and frightening […]
Fire at Sea [Fuocoammare] *** (2016, Samuele Caruana, Pietro Bartolo, Maria Costa, Mattias Cucina) – Movie Review
Writer-cinematographer-director Gianfranco Rosi captures life and death on the Italian Sicilian island of Lampedusa, which finds itself on the frontline in the European migrant crisis. Rosi won the 2016 Golden Berlin Bear award for his heart-on-sleeve documentary, highlighting […]
The Divide *** (2015) – Movie Review
Director Katharine Round’s extremely big-hearted and well-meaning planet-saving documentary about global inequality is thoroughly engrossing, intelligent and provocative. Her film is inspired by the book The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Through their […]