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Tagged with: Documentary

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From stoner cartoon frog to vicious alt-right icon in ‘Feels Good Man’

Pam Grady -
It is only appropriate that Feels Good Man, Arthur Jones's documentary about cartoonist Matt Furie and his creation Pepe the Frog should screen at...
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A man, a plan, a documentary: ‘The Palindromists’

Pam Grady -
Palindromes read the same forward and back. We learn that in grade school. "Madam, I'm Adam." "A man. A plan. A canal. Panama." "Was...
Movies

Screen Grabs: Docfest brings pop-punk, word nerds, Pac-Man, Sleeze Lake, more

Dennis Harvey -
With no end in sight yet for a public health crisis that (thanks to the inimitable bungling of Dear Leader) only other countries are...
Movies

Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

Dennis Harvey -
One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Flicks for diverse takes on the forces that be

Dennis Harvey -
From globe-trotting LGBTQ narratives to social justice documentaries (and dramas), there’s a lot of diversity amongst fresh streaming releases this week—as well as some...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical

Dennis Harvey -
For obvious reasons, some stylistic aspects of 1960s counterculture were slower to infiltrate Soviet bloc nations than general populations in the West. Even as...
Music

Out of the Crate: When ‘Bitches Brew’ put us all on notice

John-Paul Shiver -
Miles Davis entered Columbia Records Studio B in Manhattan on Tuesday, August 19, 1969—one day after the Woodstock Music festival ended. There, his explorations...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Fighting disability stereotypes, from Frankenstein to Rain Man

Dennis Harvey -
The #MeToo era has brought heightened attention to a lot of mis- and under-representation issues in entertainment media, not all of them related to...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Every day they write the book

Dennis Harvey -
Writing and writers seem to be the dominant theme in this weekend’s new releases—something that is seldom a particularly exciting subject for movies, admittedly....
Movies

Clap your hands, stomp your feet for ‘River City Drumbeat’

Pam Grady -
River City Drumbeat (playing Fri/7-August 21 at Roxie Virtual Cinema) captures a Louisville, KY, phenomenon: the River City Drum Corp, a youth brigade of African...
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