By Gregory Crofton Buzz Osbourne, leader of the rock band Melvins, landed a solid body blow on the much-praised documentary MONTAGE OF HECK about his friend Kurt Cobain by calling it 90% bullshit in a web post. Morgen’s version of…
Life in Baghdad: Joy Amid the Chaos of War
A rare and surprising look at the everyday lives of ordinary young Iraqis. Against the backdrop of war, life goes on. Families are still attending carnivals and eating ice cream, young boys are diving into canals, teenagers are dancing in…
Seymour Hersh on Osama bin Laden’s Death
Famed investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says by going public with a “fairytale” narrative of the murder of bin Laden, President Obama broke an agreement with top Pakistani generals to hide the U.S. mission and Pakistani military complicity.
Meet the Director of ‘Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop’
THOUGHT CRIMES: THE CASE OF THE CANNIBAL COP is the HBO documentary that explores Gilberto Valle, the NYPD officer that fantasized about killing and eating his wife and her friends on darkfetish.net, and became a tabloid scandal of the justice…
Christopher Hitchens Discusses His Book on President Bill Clinton
Christopher Hitchens discusses his book “No One Left To Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton,” published in 1999, on CSPAN’s Booktv with journalist Steven Scully.
Cameras Capture ‘JANE’ Fonda’s Disappointment on Broadway
By Gregory Crofton Robert Drew worked with Time Life in the early 1960s to invent a documentary form known as direct cinema or cinéma vérité. Ten largely unseen films from Drew Associates are now available to stream from the SundanceNow…