Next week, Chicago Media Project presents DOC10, an annual film festival that presents the most compelling documentary films of the year over the course of a few days. This year, organizers have partnered with the newly-revamped Davis Theater in Lincoln Square to showcase films covering subject ...
Watch this: I Am Not Your Negro
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin The hardest part about watching I Am Not Your Negro, easily 2016's best documentary and most essential viewing, is watching it. More than once, I cringed, winced, looked away, closed my ...
2015 [in films – documentary]
Of the 160 movies I watched in 2015, 44 of them were documentaries. That means that roughly one third (28%) of the hours of film I absorbed were factual accounts of the world around us. From finally watching 1990's groundbreaking Paris is Burning to cramming in as many of the Oscar Documentary ...
Watch This: Amy
She had an intimate relationship with music, like it was a person...she would die for it. In ten or twenty years, my kid siblings may come across Amy, the new documentary that chronicles Amy Winehouse's meteoric rise to fame in the first years of the millennium, and watch it much the way I recently ...
Watch This: Six by Sondheim
I am always watching something. If it's not a film for work it's a series I haven't seen yet. If it's not a new theatrical release, it's a doc I've been meaning to get to. If it's not on Netflix, it's a DVD I snagged from the library. It's always something. I was poking around HBOgo recently (as ...