SKATOPIA is an Appalachian farm where hardcore skating, punk rock and hillbilly culture collide. Mad-Max style demolition derbies and spontaneous car burning accompany all-night skate sessions. Pain is a badge of honor. Tony Hawk calls Skatopia a “rite of passage”…
Martin Scorsese on Framing
In this episode the PBS Digital Series Blank on Blank has a previously unheard conversation with legendary director, Martin Scorsese, on how he’s framed his movies and his life. The early foray into making a movie as a kid, toying…
PET SOUNDS: Annotated Look at a Classic Beach Boys Album
In a new series from Pitchfork called “Liner Notes,” they take a close look at the Beach Boys classic album, Pet Sounds, 50 years after its release.
‘RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM: TOM PETTY and THE HEARTBREAKERS’: Fantastic Four-Hour Documentary Made by a Smart Hollywood Big Shot
By Gregory Crofton It seems Tom Petty doesn’t know how to make something that’s not good. So when it came time to make a documentary about his band of thirty years, he asked Peter Bogdanovich to direct it. Bogdanovich, who…
‘HOLY HELL’: Feels like a Hollywood Feature, But it’s Really a Great Documentary
By Gregory Crofton You may think you’ve seen a documentary that reveals what it’s like inside a cult, but you’ve never seen one like this. It was made from the inside out. Its director, William Francesco Allen, was once the…
Anthony ‘WEINER’ has Balls, That’s the Problem
By Gregory Crofton In WEINER, a documentary that recently screened at the Nashville Film Festival, Anthony Weiner, a congressman who resigned his seat because of a sexting scandal, runs for mayor of New York City — a job that’s always…