Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, Lucy Walker’s film Waste Land follows Brazilian artist Vik Muniz as he returns to his hometown of Sao Paolo for a project…
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We’ve seen a slew of movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the fictionalized ones simply haven’t connected with the public. Even last year’s Oscar winning The Hurt Locker couldn’t…
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Sandman is a fascinating documentary that made the festival rounds way back in 2006. It played at both South By Southwest, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Today the film is…
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One of the few documentaries ever to show at Cannes, granted a private screening for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the agitprop activist documentary Countdown to Zero delivers a blast…
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Earlier this week, we brought you a review of the true crime documentary Cropsey. The documentary explores the urban legend behind several unsolved child murders that occurred on Staten Island. Tonight…
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I’ve always loved history. Discovering what happened in the past is always a great way to make sure things go smoothly in the present and in the future. I also love…
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Who isn’t fascinated by an urban legend? Almost every community has some sort of local tale that is unique to its geographic region, and on Staten Island, that legend was known…
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In the previous millennium, when I was an idealistic young thing attending Barnard College, the women’s college affiliated with Columbia University, there was a lot of talk about who before us…