Category: Film & TV

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 was in cahoots with Banksy or that he was Banksy himself. Even aficionados of the scene were unsure what to think.

January 10, 2020
Stellazine: A Photographer Reviews "Restrepo"

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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 photographer Tim Hetherington and writer Sebastian Junger, I asked her to write about her feelings.

January 10, 2020
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.

January 10, 2020
Now Streaming on Netflix: Restrepo

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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 dark humor, sleepless surreality and constant anxiety of war in this Best Documentary winner at Sundance.

January 10, 2020
General Butt Naked, by Ryan Lobo

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We are telling the story of Joshua Milton Blahyii, also known as General Butt Naked, a former warlord who terrorized Monrovia for many years with his child soldiers, murdering, raping, cannibalizing, maiming and brutalizing thousands during Liberia’s civil war. Suddenly in the middle of the fighting and at the height of his power, Joshua claims to have had a revelation from God and laid down his weapons and renounced violence. Many years later, now a preacher, he returns to Liberia to begin “a crusade” to redeem his past. We are with him when he does so.

January 10, 2020
Russian criminal tattoo documentary on YouTube

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Alix Lambert’s fascinating documentary from 2000 about Russian criminal tattoos, The Mark of Caïn, is available under a Creative Commons license and viewable in full on YouTube.

January 10, 2020
John Kaplan's Film To Air On PBS

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Greetings everyone! We are so pleased to announce nationwide PBS stations broadcast for Not As I Pictured: A Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographer’s Journey Through Lymphoma.

January 10, 2020
Filmmakers seeking funds for Don McCullin documentary

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A new documentary on the life and work of Don McCullin is to be released in 2012, but the producers, which include one of McCullin’s closest assistants, need your help to finish post-production

January 10, 2020
Greenfield Wins Sundance Director Prize

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Lauren Greenfield won the prize for best director of a US documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for her film, “The Queen of Versailles.”

January 10, 2020
In ‘Act of Valor,’ a Secret Military World, Approved for Public Viewing

In ‘Act of Valor,’ a Secret Military World, Approved for Public Viewing

Much chatter, and some complaints, among the military and veterans about a new film featuring active-duty Seals, “Act of Valor.”

via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/in-act-of-valor-a-secret-military-world-approved-for-public-viewing/?pagewanted=all

“One of these days if you keep publishing how you do this, the other guy’s going be there ready for you and you’re going to fly in and he’s going to shoot down every damn helicopter and kill every one of your Seals,” General Vaught said. “Get the hell out of the media!”

January 10, 2020
McCULLIN

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The power of both book and film come as much from McCullin’s words as from his photographs. Don expresses his utter disgust, not only with war but with his having to cover it, as a “war junkie.” The film is unforgiving of mankind, most of all of McCullin himself. He loathes the idea of being called a War Photographer

January 10, 2020
Blow-Up: Behind the Most Famous Film on Photography | American Photo

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A new exhibition and book offer fresh perspectives on Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 cult classic about the ambiguity of images

January 10, 2020
Don McCullin at War – The New York Times

Don McCullin at War

The legendary photographer counsels those seeking conflict: look close to home at the social wars being waged every day.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/don-mccullin-at-war/

The documentary film “McCullin” by Jacqui Morris had its American debut at the Museum of Modern Art this week, and an updated version of the book “Don McCullin” was reissued this year by Aperture.

Mr. McCullin, who is represented by Contact Press Images, spoke this week with Michael Kamber, who has photographed conflict in Africa and the Middle East for The New York Times and is the founder of the Bronx Documentary Center. Their conversation has been edited.

January 10, 2020
Let Me Represent You — Vantage — Medium

Let Me Represent You

Pete Muller shares their passions, motives and images in new CNN documentary series about conflict photographers

via Medium: https://medium.com/vantage/pete-muller-let-me-represent-you-a6855026aa8a

Pete Muller shares his passions, motives and images in new CNN documentary series about conflict photographers

January 10, 2020
See the First Trailer for the Robert Frank Documentary, Don’t Blink | American Photo

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The Laura Israel-directed Don’t Blink made its world premier last fall during the New York Film Festival and according to our reviewer Judy Gelman Myers, the documentary offers a multifaceted view of the photographer so well known for The Americans. “This is Robert Frank the funny guy, the experimental filmmaker, the fan of the ’60s Beat scene,” she wrote.

January 10, 2020
Chris Hondros Documentary to Stream on Netflix | PDNPulse

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Netflix subscribers will soon be able to watch HONDROS, the documentary about late photojournalist Chris Hondros, who was killed in April 2011 while reporting on the civil war in Libya. According to entertainment publication Variety, Netflix paid “in the six-figure range” for the rights to stream the film, which debuted at Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017, where it earned the Audience Award. Director Greg Campbell, a longtime friend and colleague of Hondros, also earned a special jury mention for Best First-Time Documentary Director.

January 10, 2020
Pranks and Masculinity on “Who Is America?” and “Nathan for You” | The New Yorker

Pranks and Masculinity on “Who Is America?” and “Nathan for You”

While Sacha Baron Cohen specializes in macho bullies, Nathan Fielder’s urge to manipulate is submerged in irony.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/pranks-and-masculinity-on-who-is-america-and-nathan-for-you

While Sacha Baron Cohen specializes in macho bullies, Nathan Fielder’s urge to manipulate is submerged in irony.

January 10, 2020
A Private War: Videos | Aviron Pictures

A Private War | Aviron Pictures

Search for screenings / showtimes and book tickets for A Private War. See the release date and trailer. The Official Showtimes Destination brought to you by Aviron Pictures

via A Private War: Get Tickets | Aviron Pictures: http://www.aprivatewarfilm.com/

In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin (Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike) is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time. Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless, while constantly testing the limits between bravery and bravado. After being hit by a grenade in Sri Lanka, she wears a distinctive eye patch and is still as comfortable sipping martinis with London’s elite as she is confronting dictators. Colvin sacrifices loving relationships, and over time, her personal life starts to unravel as the trauma she’s witnessed takes its toll. Yet, her mission to show the true cost of war leads her — along with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan) — to embark on the most dangerous assignment of their lives in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Based on the extraordinary life of Marie Colvin, A PRIVATE WAR is brought to the screen by Academy Award nominee and critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman in his pulse-pounding narrative feature debut.

January 10, 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine – The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene

Juxtapoz Magazine – The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene

British artist-filmmaker Oliver Payne and American painter Kevin Bouton-Scott have joined forces to produce a new documentary that tells an almos…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/film/the-art-of-warez-documents-the-lost-ansi-art-scene/

British artist-filmmaker Oliver Payne and American painter Kevin Bouton-Scott have joined forces to produce a new documentary that tells an almost forgotten story of the ANSI scene. The Art Of Warez covers the days before the Internet when early hackers and online pirates created an original and, even today, a virtually unknown art movement.

January 10, 2020
‘Shooting the Mafia’ review: Passionate portrait of Letizia Battaglia – Los Angeles Times

‘Shooting the Mafia’ captures the passion behind the photos of Letizia Battaglia

Documentary “Shooting the Mafia” profiles Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia, noted for chronicling the lives of underworld figures.

via Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-21/shooting-the-mafia-review

“The camera changed my life,” says Italian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, the incredibly compelling subject of veteran documentarian Kim Longinotto’s “Shooting the Mafia.” Before Battaglia picked up a camera at age 40, she was a teenage bride who raised three daughters and endured a rocky marriage. When she walked into the local newspaper in her hometown of Palermo, Sicily, looking for work, she found her calling as a photojournalist, chronicling the Mafia War in Sicily and its high-profile trials.

November 22, 2019