All in Documentary
Simone Wendel’s "KINGS OF KALLSTADT"
This film explores the roots of the Trump and Heinz families from the perspective of the residents of small rural town, Kallstadt, Germany.
Zachary Heinzerling's CUTIE AND THE BOXER
Not being an artist myself I’ve long been mystified by how people define what is “art” and what’s not.
Sarah Polley’s “STORIES WE TELL”
Sarah Polley’s STORIES WE TELL is an exploration of how truth and memory interact in subtle and subjective ways about one family’s past history.
Dziga Vertov's THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (Chelovek s kinoapparatom)
This 1929 silent film by Russian director Vertov is a masterpiece of fluid editing and visual storytelling.
Robert Baca & Josh Rizzo's “WELCOME TO MACINTOSH”
This documentary is by no means a comprehensive history of Apple or even of the Macintosh computer.
Expo: Magic of the White City
This documentary about the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago is the perfect companion to the book The Devil in the White City. While the latter's serial murderer is never mentioned in the documentary, the visual splendor of the Fair is portrayed in a detailed and awesome manner on the screen.
Are there people in the U.S. who still believe that Fox News is "fair and balanced"? I don't really think so, and that's the weak point of this "documentary" with an editorial point of view.
A Short Film About John Bolton
The short film showpieced on this DVD is not Neil Gaiman’s (American Gods) best work. It is a fictionalized look at the artist John Bolton who in real life creates erotic paintings of nude female vampires. (Neil Gaiman also helped develop the English language version of Princess Mononoke.)
The view of the publishing business that emerges in this documentary is very different than the one you see if all you know is Amazon.com, Borders, and C-SPAN's BookTV. Here you see charismatic young publishers betting the farm to bring fringe and suppressed book to light while battling the forces of "mainstream media" that at all turns seem to be resisting and twisting "the truth."