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Showing posts with label documentaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documentaries. Show all posts
Thursday, March 05, 2026

The True/False Film Festival 2026: Preludes

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The annual True/False Film Festival rolls into my fair city again today with a selection of non-fiction-ish films on offer. I always think...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

True/False 2025: Silent Movies

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I dimly remember the events at Gallaudet University covered in Deaf President Now! (2025, directed by Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim), ...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

True/False 2025: True Crime

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Director Charlie Shackelton was careful to note that The Zodiac Killer Project (2025) isn't really about the Zodiac Killer when he to...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

True/False 2025: Women in STEM

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The annual True/False film festival has arrived in my fair city once again this past weekend, and I have once again been knee-deep in non-...
Sunday, March 12, 2023

True/False 2023: Fathers and Mothers

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Red Herring (2023, directed by Kit Vincent) starts with an image of a man swimming at twilight. This man is the director's father, ...
Monday, March 06, 2023

True/False 2023: Knocked Up

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How To Have an American Baby (2023, directed by Leslie Tai) takes a long look at the practice of Chinese tourism to the United States in ...
Saturday, March 04, 2023

True/False 2023: Masculine and Feminine

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Here's another dispatch from True/False. The festival's programmers don't set out to rhyme the films on the schedule with one ...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

True/False 2023: Fire and Myth

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The annual True/False film festival has rolled into my fair city once again. Once again, I'll be offering notes from the interior. T...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

True/False 2022: Wayward Daughters and Hot Volcanoes

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All of the films I saw on my second day at True/False were directed by women and were by and large about women and relationships. I didn...
Friday, March 11, 2022

True/False 2022: People Watching and Shoot 'Em Ups

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I took last year off from my city's annual True/False film festival. It was the first time I'd missed the festival in the seventee...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

True/False 2020: Lingering Traumas

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This year's True/False Film Festival brings a couple of films about the lingering effects of trauma. This is a constant well of subjec...
Sunday, March 08, 2020

True/False 2020: Tales of Two Cities

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The annual True/False Film Festival went on as scheduled this weekend in my fair city. There was a whistling-past-the-graveyard feeling to ...
Thursday, March 07, 2019

True/False 2019: Scenes from the Resistance

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There are always countervailing narratives at True/False (and, I imagine, at other documentary festivals). For every apocalyptic cautionary...
Monday, March 04, 2019

True/False 2019: A Boot to the Face Forever

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George Orwell, ever the optimist, once suggested that "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--fo...
Saturday, March 02, 2019

True/False 2019: The Queen of Soul and the Queen of the Bronx

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Amazing Grace (2018, directed by Sydney Pollack and completed by Alan Elliot) chronicles the recording of the album of the same name by Ar...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Trans in Africa

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There is a scene in The Pearl of Africa (2016, directed by Jonny von Wallström) in which the film's transsexual heroine watches the ne...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Rich and Famous

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I wasn't a fan of Amy Winehouse during her lifetime. Not because I disliked her music--I rarely heard her music in the radio wasteland ...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Salting the Soil

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The Salt of the Earth (2014, directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) is one of those documentaries that confounds expectation...
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Sunday, April 05, 2015

True/False 2015: Across the Rio Grande

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Cartel Land (2015, directed by Matthew Heineman) and Western (2015, directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross) are so thematically similar...
Monday, March 30, 2015

True/False 2015: Almost Famous

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"Fuckery and shenanigans." That's how the sister of one of the antagonists in Finders Keepers (2015, directed by Bryan Carbe...
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