The largest turnout registered in women’s sporting affairs of all time seeks to break this record, and it was a physical battle both within and outside the arena which you probably have never been told about. It is Copa 71, the first unofficial competition that can be referred as women’s soccer world cup. Nowadays: Directed […]
This installment, “She Rises Up,” is Maureen Castle Tustys latest offering as a documentary filmmaker and it seeks to address the international economy and the efforts of a certain group of women trying to operate within it. Rightfully, removing the pride from the three central women as they are Gladys of Peru, Magatte of Senegal
The classification “Hummingbirds” also does no favour to the film, as it pushes the films into the depth of mere documentary. In sharp contrast – best friends and the directors Silvia del Carmen Castanos and Estefania Beba Contreras, – this is absolutely more than that, Self-presentation of the their, call for action, amusing summers with
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall’s documentary “Scala!!!” is about a legendary, notorious, hugely influential and long-gone London theater. But it’ll appeal to anyone whose formative moviegoing years were defined by eccentric, usually urban or college-town cinemas that programmed whatever the folks who ran the place found interesting and switched lineups every day or two. There
In the documentary’s introductory segment, “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger”, Martin Scorsese explains how and when he first saw the most remarkable achievements of the eminent filmmaking team, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, as a young kid, under what are perhaps some of the most undesirable situations possible: the family’s black-and-white
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Created in their video department The New York Times, and based largely on its reporting content, “Sorry/Not Sorry” is a how-to guide about Louis C.K. The story of a standup comic who turned into a lowbudget extreme self-revealing filmmaker. He went on to be a writer, director, producer and one of the principal actors in
Brian Eno is one such artist who has pioneered what some would designate as “generative art.” It was in the 1970s when he embarked on it as an art rock star with the band Roxy Music. Though he let out many a skronky sound with those fellas in the early days of machines, as he
In “Not Not Jazz” – a documentary about jazz fusion band Medeski Martin & Wood, there is also a sequence with ‘crew lens stalking about Mike Landau’s neck’ while Chris Wood is bowing an upright bass on leaves in a desert courtyard in upstate New York tennis court. Other such scenes are also evident in
It seems that for people who know too much about a certain topic, creating a docuseries such as ‘Hollywood Black’ would always fall short of, as fulfilling as it may be, the dreams of most people performing it. After all, MGM+ which has no TCM or Criterion Channel catalogue is going to air a four
