Tag: documentary
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ENDLESS COOKIE (2025)
STORYLINE: Two half-brothers, one Indigenous and one white, embark on a journey through time and place. They travel from their remote home in Shamattawa to the vibrant urban landscape of the 1980s. (IMDb) Family is a part of life, for better or worse. It can be complicated, pleasant, or something you’d rather not talk…
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ANDRE IS AN IDIOT (2025: Documentary)
STORYLINE: Unexpected, irreverent, and definitely heartfelt, ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT is a wildly life-affirming film about death and about the strange clarity that arrives when time suddenly becomes finite. When André Ricciardi, a self-proclaimed “idiot” for skipping the colonoscopy that could have saved him, learns he is dying, he turns his final chapter into an…
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NATCHEZ (2025, Documentary)
STORYLINE: A sharp look at the American South’s unreconciled history through Natchez, a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past. (IMDb) The interesting thing about documentary features is their ability to offer a variety of perspectives, on a variety of subjects. 2016’s Life Animated was an…
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COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT (2025)
STORYLINE: Facing an incurable diagnosis, two poet lovers embark on a poignant yet unexpectedly humorous exploration of love, mortality, and life’s moments. (IMDb) All the arts have been well documented in a variety of documentaries. Heart of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse (1991) documents the chaos it took to make the classic Apocalypse Now. Turn…
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IT’S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY (2025 – Documentary)
STORYLINE: Never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley’s inner circle paint a captivating portrait of the gifted musician who died tragically in 1997, having only released one album. (IMDb) There is an expectation with documentaries about musicians and music that thst viewer will become familiar with the subjects music. With films…
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MERCHANT IVORY (2023 – Documentary Feature)
STORYLINE: Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company. (IMDb) When making a documentary about a subject you admire, I imagine it is difficult to remove your fandom, to create an unbiased motion picture. …
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