A hardcore band not in it for the money, able to ruffle feathers with a bass, drums, and a Powerpoint presentation.
Read MoreFilm Review: Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (Jung Yoon-suk)
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Interview: Salima Koroma (Bad Rap)
The director of Bad Rap discusses documentary film making and the concerns of modern entertainers.
Read MoreFilm Review: Raise Your Arms and Twist - Documentary of NMB48 (Atsushi Funahashi)
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From the director of Nuclear Nation is an uncompromising, humanist look at a few girls wrapped up in a pop culture phenomenon.
Read MoreFilm Review: Mifune: The Last Samurai (Steven Okazaki)
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An in-depth look at Toshiro Mifune's craft and personal life, this documentary is also a brisk crash course on a specific time and section of Japanese film history.
Read MoreDouble Feature Review: Eat That Question/Train to Busan
Both films, in their own ways, showcase the struggle against the plastic people and forewarn viewers how they too can defend themselves in case of emergency.
Read MoreJapan Cuts 2016: The Shion Sono (Arata Oshima)
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This documentary gives an insightful look into the man and also allows Sono to throw out his constant insights into life, filmmaking, and how to properly treat your canvas.
Read MoreFilm Review: Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (Jeremy Coon/Tim Skousen)
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The latest documentary from Drafthouse Films will please anyone who knows the blood, sweat, and tears of making a movie as well as anyone who has ever pursued their dream.
Read MoreFilm Review: De Palma (Noah Baumbach/Jake Paltrow)
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This two hour journey through De Palma's career solely with the man himself is hard to pinpoint just who it is intended for but proves to be a decent introduction to the man. A glorified DVD extra.
Read MoreDVD-Review: Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise (Robert Mugge, 1980) - Mug-Shot Productions
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Mugge's definitive documentary portrait of jazz visionary Sun Ra has been brought back into print.
Read MoreCDFF '16: Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Angela Sun's documentary on what the advent and continued mass production of plastic could do to the human race is short and to to the point with moments of clever and biting authorial jabs.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Burroughs: The Movie (Howard Brookner, 1983) - Criterion Collection
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The best documentary on William S. Burroughs arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion.
Read MoreDFF '15: Theory of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents (Don Hardy)
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Whether in the know or not about the group, this documentary is a must watch.
Read MoreDFF '15: India's Daughter (Leslee Udwin)
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Only an hour, but constantly infuriating, India's Daughter is a powerful film that has been met with censorship. Director Leslee Udwin uses a single incident to comment on a society as a whole.
Read MoreFilm Review: The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (Mami Sunada, 2013)
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While watching this documentary, about the legendary Studio Ghibli, I fell in love with the image of Hayao Miyazaki hunched over his drawing board. There was old Miyazaki-san, in his 70s, cigarette dangling, wearing his old white smock, lost in his art as he created his cartoons...
Read MoreSFF ’15 REVIEW: The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher)
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If you are a fan, or just find it refreshing, of documentaries that wear artifice on their sleeves there are small details that should be of interest to you in The Nightmare.
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