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Documentarian Steve James (“Hoop Dreams,” “The Interrupters”) was championed by Roger Ebert. He collaborated with Ebert and wife Chaz to…

Los Angeles Filmforum is thrilled to present the feature-length first entry in George Kuchar’s monumental Weather Diary series, which eventually…

French actress/director Emmanuelle Bercot’s lazy day road movie features the glorious Catherine Deneuve as Bettie, a 60-something one-time Miss Brittany…

Errol Morris is incapable of making a boring documentary. His latest, “The Unknown Known”, based on over thirty hours of…

Chicago historian John Maloof bought a box of negatives at a auction, hoping to use them for a history project.…

Anthony Russo and Joe Russo’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, a stylish, muscular action film set in the Marvel Universe,…

Philipp Kadelbach’s “Generation War” (the German title “Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter” translates to “Our Mothers, Our Fathers”) first aired on…

Ever since the success of “City Of God”, filmmakers in developing countries have been recycling its tropes in less effective…

First time feature director Javier Andrade’s “The Porcelain Horse”, Ecuador’s official Foreign Oscar submission, is an assured piece of work.…

Australian actor turned director Kim Mordaunt’s “The Rocket”, Australia’s foreign Oscar submission, is both a realistic view of rural Laos…