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By Gregory Crofton Benjamin Statler’s SOAKED IN BLEACH establishes that the Seattle police conducted virtually no investigation into the death of rock star Kurt Cobain. They ruled his death a suicide on they same day they found him dead, gripping…
By Gregory Crofton The idea came to him while he listened to a “Robert Altman: The Oral Biography” (2009) in his car. Make a documentary about this hugely influential American filmmaker, a man who mocked Hollywood with THE PLAYER and…
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…
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…
By Gregory Crofton In 1972, a plane full of young rugby players jetted from Uruguay out across the Andes mountain range, their destiny a match in Chile. The atmosphere on the plane was one of raucous joy even after the…
By David W. Hall Wanna see feverish creativity paired with similarly hectic, unstable employment history? Liebrandt’s restaurants, whose future was assured by critics’ positive reviews, typically close within a year of favorable ink being spilled. Quoting P.T. Barnum: “This way…
