Tag Archive for 'Documentaries'
Our movie marathon continued Saturday, May 8 with four screenings at the Charles. In the last few years it became our tradition to start off the festival Saturday with a screening in 3D. This year it would have been Inferno in 3D, but we decided to break our tradition and watch one of several foreign (more)
When we put together our five screenings for the first full festival day I already thought it would become quite an exhausting Friday. And this really turned out to become one rock star day of watching movies without a pause and living on popcorn, energy-bars, water and sangria. But it was absolutely worth it.
Our day (more)
Back in May I wrote about our time at the Maryland Film Festival. We had to leave the Narrative Shorts program early and missed the ending of Paul Harrill’s Quick Feet, Soft Hands. In my blog I mentioned that I was very interested in the rest of the story, and shortly after posting it I (more)
Alice and I ran across Johnny Berlin on the Documentary Channel last night and just loved it. I tried to write while it was on, but I had to stop and listen to Johnny’s fascinating monologue. I didn’t know Jon Hyrns aka Johnny Berlin before, but found out that he wrote and played in Woodpecker, (more)
Originally we planned to see the documentary shorts program between Underworld and Out Late. It was just about a minute into Underworld’s Q&A when a fire alarm forced everybody out of the theatre. I don’t know what exactly happened. Did somebody try to smoke in a bathroom? Did a film projector start to burn after (more)
There once was a time in which only one sexual identity was accepted as valid and natural. Law and church taught that a man was supposed to be with a woman, and that everything else was just wrong and a crime against nature. Homosexuality was suppressed, hidden and forbidden until science began to argue against (more)
We watched the first of three screenings of I.O.U.S.A on Friday morning. This was actually an earlier version which was presented at Sundance before. After the filmmakers received feedback they edited the film and updated it with recent numbers. This more recent version was presented in the other two screenings. Unfortunately we couldn’t watch this (more)
Directed by Marcy Garriott
With Omar Davila, Josh Ayers, Romeo Navarro
Website at www.insidethecircle.com
Breakdancing’s come a long way since the days of the Electric Boogaloo, as this documentary set in the ultra-competitive Austin, Texas b-boy scene proves. Director Marcy Garriott’s eye-popping, gravity-defying doc recalls the drama and excitement of Hoop Dreams as it follows Josh and Omar, (more)
