Bukowski: Born Into This
March 29, 2006
Charles Bukowski was a famous novelist and poet who lived the grungy, skid row life that he wrote about so well and that also made him famous. He was an uncompromising counterculture icon and this documentary, Bukowski: Born Into This (2003), attempts...
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt
March 14, 2006
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004) is an absorbing documentary about a tragic genius musician in the fine tradition of Bruce Weber’s tribute to jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, Let’s Get Lost (1988). Be Here to Love Me examines the...
Inside Deep Throat
March 3, 2006
Deep Throat (1972) was the first pornographic film to be distributed and presented on a mainstream level. It was made for only $25,000 and went on to gross a conservatively estimated $600 million. The film also ended up being banned in 23 states. The...
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
February 25, 2006
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) is the fascinating story of a company worth billions that went bankrupt in 24 days. Its top executives were consumed by greed and, not surprisingly, the results were the total collapse of a company (including...
King Kong – Peter Jackson’s Production Diaries
February 16, 2006
In order to capitalize on the release of Peter Jackson’s remake of King Kong (2005), Universal has released a collection of production diaries on a 2-DVD set. These brief segments originally aired on Kong is King, a fan website dedicated to the movie....
No Direction Home Bob Dylan
February 4, 2006
So much has been written about Bob Dylan. His career has been well-documented, including some truly excellent documentaries, most notably Don’t Look Back (1967) by D.A. Pennebaker. So what is there left to say? Apparently, Martin Scorsese thought otherwise...
Gunner Palace
January 30, 2006
The longer that the United States is mired in the occupation of Iraq the more the situation there draws the inevitable comparisons to the Vietnam War. Our troops are trying to maintain a tenuous peace but are having a tough time against insurgents that...
Philadelphia 76ers: The Complete History
January 29, 2006
The Philadelphia 76ers are one of the original NBA teams and, as this box set so amply illustrates, have had an impressive roster of players through their legacy, from when they were known as the Warriors, up to the present with Allen Iverson. Several...
The Quest
December 30, 2005
Boobs, beer and bad language. Sounds like the perfect male dominated night out, and The Quest pretty much is, but with a storyline hidden somewhere in the depths of vomit and unsavoury behaviour. This documentary film shows us the shallower side of American...
Burden of Dreams
November 19, 2005
Before George Hickenlooper showed the artistic hubris and madness that swirled around the making of Apocalypse Now (1979) in his documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991), and Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe showed how external forces...
