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-30 posts tagged "Documentary"
Aidan O'Malley | Sunday, October 24, 2021
Sorry for the delay, folks. Am I flattering myself in thinking that anyone was actually waiting for this? Probably, but I don’t mind. While I hope my CIFF coverage over the course of fall break has expanded your watchlist — or maybe even encouraged you to participate in the local arts in the future —
Aidan O'Malley | Friday, October 22, 2021
No introduction today — here’s what I saw since we last spoke. “Belfast” One of this year’s Gala Presentations is “Belfast,” the new film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. The 60-year-old actor turned filmmaker has had a long and accomplished career: he’s made several Shakespeare adaptations, most notably “Henry V” and “Hamlet”; he’s starred
Maggie Clark | Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Erin Lee Carr’s “Britney vs. Spears” details the story of Britney Spears’ pressures of fame, specifically focusing on how those pressures led to her well-publicized conservatorship (from which her father left last week, just after the documentary’s release on Netflix). Although this documentary had a lot of potential to address a popular issue of great
Ryan Georgi | Tuesday, September 14, 2021
The moment Justice Thomas sits down in front of the camera, you know you’re in for a genuine story of triumph over injustice. Forget your politics, and leave behind your preconceived notions about the normally silent Justice; you’re about to hear him discuss his life story for a whole hour and 56 minutes. As a
Willoughby Thom | Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Documentaries have the reputation of being relatively simple; full of individual talking heads, firsthand video footage, photo montages and a logical progression. It’s predictable. Of course, there are many different types of documentaries covering a wide range of subjects, but the formula in which stories are told doesn’t vary much from film to film and
Claire Reid | Thursday, April 29, 2021
The Department of Film, Television and Theatre (FTT) will host the 32nd Annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival this weekend in the Debartolo Performing Arts Center’s Browning Cinema. Festival screenings will take place from Thursday to Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. A livestream of Sunday’s show will also be available
JP Spoonmore | Thursday, April 15, 2021
There are few documentaries as enticing and personal as “My Octopus Teacher.” Being Netflix’s contender for the Academy Awards’ Documentary Feature this year, it breaks the mold of most documentaries by jumping into the cold water without holding your hand. What begins as a simple story of friendship evolves into an incredible experience of self-discovery
Colleen Fischer | Tuesday, November 10, 2020
I figured it was fitting to close the semester the same way I opened it: with Bob Dylan. Since the Timothée Chalamet biopic about the singer’s shift from folk to rock music— aptly titled “Going Electric” — is delayed indefinitely, here are some movies about Dylan to fill your endless days. Dylan’s elusive personality forces
Colleen Fischer | Friday, October 23, 2020
If I was in a coming-of-age film, it would open with me slamming the door shut and blaring something David Byrne wrote. There is something about David Byrne and Talking Heads that makes my brain make sense. I was waiting for the film version of “America Utopia” for over a year, and it was worth
Dasha Kudriavtseva | Monday, October 12, 2020
After hearing from my mother and a few friends that I have to watch the documentary “The Social Dilemma,” it did not take me too long to plan a movie night over the weekend, and the fact I’m increasingly bothered by my phone only accelerated my growing interest in this film. I am probably not