Reeling The Real

After his recent string of political films, Errol Morris returns...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:04:59 -0400

After his recent string of political films, Errol Morris returns to his journalistic roots in Tabloid, a quirky account of former model Joyce McKinney who was accused of raping a Mormon Missionary in 1977. This unbelievable tale is captured with poignant distinction as it examines the distortions of reality that are presented by the media and the lies that we tell ourselves to be true.

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Limor Pinhasov is an Israeli film-maker who has directed and...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:02:00 -0400

Limor Pinhasov is an Israeli film-maker who has directed and edited various documentaries such as A Working Mom (2006) and Company Jasmine (2001). Her most recent film Melissa: Mom and Me (2010) is currently touring festival circuits. Read her interview with Reeling The Real here.

An Interview with director Peter Sasowsky

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:25:00 -0400

Peter Sasowsky’s documentary Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis premieres at Raindance Film Festival 2011 on Saturday 1st October. He is also the founder and director of Serious Motion Pictures, a script to screen production company that produces documentary and narrative films, corporate communications, and media for foundations and philanthropies.

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Jun Miyake - All Names Amazing soundtrack to an amazing film

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:47:00 -0400

Jun Miyake - All Names

Amazing soundtrack to an amazing film

Troy Davis, and remembering Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:45:00 -0400

“Was documentary representation one of the things the Troy Davis case could have benefited from? Or is there no point in crying over spilt milk[shake]?”

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theloudestvoice: Merian Cooper, Marguerite Harrison and Ernest...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:10:55 -0400

theloudestvoice:

Merian Cooper, Marguerite Harrison and Ernest Schoedsack on location in Angora while filming Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

(via Savage Minds)

Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:40:00 -0400

Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis

If truth be told, can ‘toons tell it?

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:05:24 -0400

If truth be told, can ‘toons tell it?

This Year Has Been A Sad Year For Avant-Garde Cinema

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:30:21 -0400

nudedefendingastaircase:

RIP Adolfas Mekas (September 30, 1925 – May 31, 2011)

RIP Robert Breer (September 30, 1926 – August 13, 2011)

RIP George Landow a.k.a. Owen Land (1944 - June 8, 2011)

RIP Jordan Belson (1926 − September 6, 2011)

RIP George Kuchar (August 31, 1942 – September 6, 2011)

cultfilms: legendary film maker wim wenders (paris, texas;...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:12:07 -0400

cultfilms:

legendary film maker wim wenders (paris, texas; buenavista social club) at the premium screening of his latest film pina at 2011 toronto international film festival.

(via [daily dose of imagery])

WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:35:16 -0400

Winnipeg

Not-so Reel History of Britain

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:58:00 -0400

Not-so Reel History of Britain

The Anti-Post-Modern Post-Modernist

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:24:00 -0400

The Anti-Post-Modern Post-Modernist:

A lecture by Errol Morris

Luis Bunuel’s Land Without Bread (1932)

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:49:00 -0400

Luis Bunuel’s Land Without Bread (1932)

Guy Maddin weaves an implausible tapestry of Winnipeg’s...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:45:00 -0400

Guy Maddin weaves an implausible tapestry of Winnipeg’s history. My Winnipeg poetically locks together truth and lies like it does horse and ice.

“My dream,” he says, “is to show this film at the Berlin Film Festival and have hundreds of Germans watching it as a travelogue of Winnipeg”

Nick Broomfield and Kim Longinotto

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:25:50 -0400

Nick Broomfield and Kim Longinotto