Category: Film & TV
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‘Photographer’ Isn’t About Photography at All | WIRED
‘Photographer’ Isn’t About Photography at All National Geographic’s new show, “Photographer,” doesn’t bother itself with analyzing images. It’s all about the drive it takes to find the ideal shot. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/national-geographic-photographer-docuseries/ Don’t be fooled, National Geographic’s new series Photographer isn’t about analyzing images. Talk of lighting, depth of field, and good angles is minimal.…
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‘War criminals: whatever you do, we’ll record it’: the ‘merciless’ Ukrainian film about Mariupol | Ukraine | The Guardian
‘War criminals: whatever you do, we’ll record it’: the ‘merciless’ Ukrainian film about Mariupol 20 Days in Mariupol by Mstyslav Chernov traces the Russian siege of the port in harrowing detail. Here, he discusses his documentary with a fellow war reporter via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/11/ukrainian-film-20-days-in-mariupol-mstyslav-chernov-documentary It is a brave, visceral, merciless masterpiece. I’ll stake a…
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Doc Filmmakers Reckon With the Industry’s Murky Ethics
The Documentary World’s Identity Crisis The boom — or glut — in streaming documentaries has sparked a reckoning among filmmakers and their subjects. via Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/tv-documentaries-ethical-standards.html Documentary-making has never been ethically pure or entirely subjective. (“I’m working on a project that is the kind of documentary where you do six takes of the person putting…
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‘You Are Not A Soldier’: Watch Clip Of Hot Docs Film About André Liohn – Deadline
‘You Are Not A Soldier’: Watch Clip Of Hot Docs Film About War Photographer André Liohn EXCLUSIVE: Brazilian production and distribution outfit Elo Company has unveiled a first look at their new documentary feature You Are Not A Soldier, which will have its world premiere at Hot Docs … via Deadline: https://deadline.com/video/you-are-not-a-soldier-watch-clip-of-hot-docs-film-about-war-photographer-andre-liohn/ Brazilian production and…
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Fill the Frame Film
https://www.filltheframefilm.com/ Fill The Frame, directed by Tim Huynh, follows eight contemporary New York street photographers and why the art inspires them.
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Documentary ‘One Shot’ Details How Olympics Photographers Capture Iconic Moments
Documentary ‘One Shot’ Details How Olympics Photographers Capture Iconic Moments The Olympic games are the peak of international sports photography and the images photographers can capture there are timeless and iconic, long outliving via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/11/23/documentary-one-shot-details-how-olympics-photographers-capture-iconic-moments/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The Olympic games are the peak of international sports photography and the images photographers can capture there are timeless…
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The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk
The Life and Times of War Reporter Robert Fisk If you want a great primer on Fisk, who recently passed away, look to the documentary This is Not a Movie. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/599459/robert-fisk-documentary/ If you want a great primer on Fisk, who recently passed away, look to the documentary This is Not a Movie.
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Exposing Rodrigo Duterte’s War on the Free Press
Exposing Rodrigo Duterte’s War on the Free Press Director Ramona Diaz and journalist Maria Ressa discuss their struggles to make A Thousand Cuts, a film about the autocratic president of the Philippines. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/580647/a-thousand-cuts-documentary-philippines-journalism/ “It all goes back to Silicon Valley,” Ressa adds. A Thousand Cuts follows the Philippines 2019 legislative elections, when for…
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The Documentarian Who Secured Rare Footage of Helmut Newton at Work
The Documentarian Who Secured Rare Footage of Helmut Newton at Work Director Gero von Boehm discusses The Bad and the Beautiful, his new film about the “King of Kink.” via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/577996/helmut-newton-documentary-interview/ Director Gero von Boehm discusses The Bad and the Beautiful, his new film about the “King of Kink.”
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Juxtapoz Magazine – JR & Elliott Erwitt: Watch a Special Double-Bill Virtual Cinema Screening of Documentary Photography Films
Juxtapoz Magazine – JR & Elliott Erwitt: Watch a Special Double-Bill Virtual Cinema Screening of Documentary Photography Films For your holiday weekend and beyond, Juxtapoz Magazine is excited to host a double-billed virtual cinema screening of two documentary photography film… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/jr-elliott-erwitt-watch-a-special-double-bill-virtual-cinema-screening-of-documentary-photography-films/ For your holiday weekend and beyond, Juxtapoz Magazine is excited to host a…
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NPPA: Robert Capa, The Action Film?
Link: The tale begins in Paris in 1935, according to Variety, and will be a “snapshot of a torrid two-year romance with Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War.” According to Fortes’ novel, Taro and Capa, both refugees fleeing the Nazis, had the shared intention when they met of becoming photographers and that the outbreak…
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They Shoot Porn Stars Don't They – Susannah Breslin
Link: At a certain point during the week that I spend in Los Angeles, interviewing adult performers, visiting adult movie sets, and talking to those who live in the San Fernando Valley and work in the adult movie industry about the recession and how the current state of the economy is affecting their livelihood, I…
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Worth a Look: Fader’s Double Vision, America Now | dvafoto
Link: To coincide with their latest photo special issue the good people over at The Fader magazine have released a new photo website called Double Vision.
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'The Office' Ends As Documentary Crew Gets All The Footage It Needs
The Onion | America’s Finest News Source. The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America’s finest news source. via The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/the_office_ends_as?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
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A Photo Student › La Jetée
Intro Website of visual Artist James Pomerantz Link: http://www.jamespomerantz.com/ Still off on Spring Break, but thought I would put a little something up. La Jetée is a 26 minute short film that has been repeatedly mentioned at school by different teachers and peers as being a must-see. So, here it is
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Banksy Puzzles With ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ – NYTimes.com
Riddle? Yes. Enigma? Sure. Documentary? (Published 2010) Banksy, the pseudonymous British street artist, is laboring in a new documentary to convince audiences that he’s playing it straight. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/movies/14banksy.html The thing is, both Banksy and Mr. Guetta are pretty unreliable narrators. The immediate scuttlebutt was that Mr. Guetta either didn’t exist at all, that he…
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Stellazine: A Photographer Reviews "Restrepo"
Link: I met Linda Covello when I worked at Newsweek and she was shooting for cover stories about American kids. She is first and foremost a portrait photographer with a great connection to people and their environment. Linda is also a serious film buff, and after talking to her about Restrepo, the award-winning film from…
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Wooster Collective: Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop Finally Coming to iTunes, VOD, and DVD in US
Invader Bombs Tinseltown via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/Jay7azYaEFc?fs=1&hl=en_US Mary Shannon Johnstone is doing the hard work. She’s taking a look a something none of us want to see, so if the subject of euthanized animals is more than you can visually tolerate, then best not continue.
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Now Streaming on Netflix: Restrepo
Link: Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, teamed with photographer Tim Hetherington to spend a year embedded with the Second Platoon in Afghanistan, documenting the hard work, fear and brotherhood that come with repelling a deadly enemy. Hunkered down with the soldiers in one of the region’s most strategic valleys, the filmmakers uncover the…