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Total Grunge: Love and Depression Glow in Beautiful ‘How to Save a Dead Friend’

By Gregory Crofton Marusya Syroechkovskaya first picked up a camera as a teen to capture…

Director Chris Smith Makes ‘BRANSON’ Honest and Interesting but Inevitably Heavy on Promotion

By Gregory Crofton If you know documentaries, surely you’ve seen director Chris Smith’s classic “American…

Poet and People Connector Rose Styron Savors Each Summer on Martha’s Vineyard

By Gregory Crofton Rose Styron has a natural elegance about her. While she describes herself…

DOC NYC: ‘LAST FLIGHT HOME’ Brings the Right to Die Issue into Your Living Room

By Gregory Crofton Eli Timoner was a successful man in charge of his life. He…

A new documentary by Matt Tyrnauer.

DOC NYC: This Vermont College was the Place to Be for Young American Writers in the 1980s

THE END OF THE WORLD By Gregory Crofton Former Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer’s (Studio…

LOAN WOLVES: One Man Gets to the Bottom of the $2 Trillion Student Loan Crisis

By Gregory Crofton Why would “Loan Wolves” director Blake Zeff dare take on the story…