For Jose Antonio Vargas, watching footage from DOCUMENTED: A FILM BY AN UNDOCUMENTED AMERICAN with the sound off was a revelation. This undocumented, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist had always prided himself on his toughness, the toughness that allowed him to navigate a high-profile career despite his immigration status, or lack thereof. What he saw was a… Read More »
Judy Irving Shares Her PELICAN DREAMS
I had a thing for pelicans even before I saw Judy Irving’s poetic film, PELICAN DREAMS, about her own obsession with these beautiful birds. Her last film, THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL, brought us into the world of those beautiful birds who reclaimed their wildness in the heart of San Francisco. With PELICAN DREAMS,… Read More »
Dr. David Kaplan has PARTICLE FEVER (and It’s Contagious)
I was only half joking when I told particle physicist Dr. David Kaplan that listening to him had raised my IQ at least five points. He had just explained in garrulous fashion, and in terms that were both clear and compelling, how the observer effect couldn’t have applied to the search for the Higgs particle… Read More »
Lacey and Peggy Schwartz Talk Their LITTLE WHITE LIE
Lacey Schwartz wasn’t going to direct the documentary about her life growing up in a Jewish family and discovering that her dark skin wasn’t the result of a Sicilian ancestory, and that the man who had raised her was not her biological father. Every director she approached told her that such a personal story about… Read More »
Rory Kennedy Investigates the LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM
I speak as someone who can remember the fall of Saigon, and the iconic images that graces magazine covers in the days and weeks that followed. Yet, when I saw Rory Kennedy’s LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM, I realized just how much we still don’t know about the events surrounding that crushing blow to American pride.… Read More »
Laura Poitras Meets CITIZENFOUR
Laura Poitras was hoarse the day I interviewed her for CITIZENFOUR. Her remarkable eye-witness documentary about Edward Snowden leaking NSA secrets to the press resulted in everyone wanting to talk to her. When we spoke, though, her dedication to bringing the truth to light was intact. I started by asking what it was like to… Read More »
Amir Bar-Lev Visits HAPPY VALLEY
Avoiding black holes. Amir Bar-Lev used that term when describing his approach to interviewing a victim of child sexual abuse, and it was a strikingly original way to describe how he wanted to be honest, but not salacious when it came to dealing with the charges against Jerry Sandusky in his documentary, HAPPY VALLEY. What… Read More »
THE OVERNIGHTERS — Jesse Moss
Jesse Moss didn’t go to North Dakota to make a film about the homeless problem that the oil boom brought with it. But when he heard about Pastor Jay Reinke’s program to house people who migrated to his small town of Williston, ND in search of work, he knew he’d found a story he wanted… Read More »
Dr. Ralph Moss and Eric Merola Offer A SECOND OPINION
Laetrile was too cheap for its own good — Dr. Ralph Moss
The E-TEAM Talks
Human Rights Watch could want no better documentary about their work about their Emergency Teams than E-TEAM, which follows two of those team, one in Libya, one in Syria, bearing witness to human rights abuse. The Syrian team, Anna Neistat and Ole Solvang traveled to San Francisco along with filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Katy Chevigny… Read More »
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