For the past few years I’ve watched all the Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts, officially because they’re timely and important films to watch. Unofficially it’s because they’re short, and I can knock out a whole category in an evening. This year, though, it might’ve been better to space them out: they’re well-made, intelligent, and often beautiful, but
Next up in reviews of Oscar-nominated films, guest writer Dennis Larsen has a look at Free Solo. Alex Honnold is a prolific free climber. He has taken on some of the worlds most difficult climbs and free climbs but there is still one on his list that he has yet to check off: Yosemite’s El
It’s officially a tradition: for the past three years I managed to watch all the Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts. Mostly because, hey, short. (Come on, you can dominate a whole category in three hours!) But they’re never boring. Depressing as hell sometimes, but never boring. It’s not a comfortable three hours, but it’s always interesting. Click
I figured I’d sneak in one last post for the 2017 Oscars. Last year I saw all the nominated documentary shorts, which was a first for me. Normally the documentary categories are when I get up to use the restroom or grab a snack, but last year I actually cared who won. So I figured
I admit it: at the Awards viewing parties I usually use the Feature Length Documentaries section as a chance to get up and stretch my legs, take a bathroom break, and snag an appetizer, because most of the time I haven’t seen any of the nominations. Not this year. This year I watched all of them.
Since I’ve been trying to watch a lot of the Oscar-nominated documentaries this year (just because it’s the one category I usually skip completely) I looked at Last Day of Freedom, the story that Bill Babbitt tells about the brother he delivered to the police. At just under 34 minutes, it’s not an easy film to watch. But I
“I don’t think I’m going to be at all famous. I don’t think I could handle it.” This was the movie I watched only because I had to, because I’d watched all the other documentaries nominated for an Oscar this year, and I didn’t want to leave one out. I’ve never been a huge fan of
Animation has always been a part of modern culture. It pushes the limits of film and story telling with thousands of hand drawn images falling in perfect secession in front of a camera and capturing the imagination of both young and old. The world wouldn’t be the same without animation, and animation wouldn’t be the same without
I like documentaries. Not enough to pick them out on my Netflix queue, but enough that I do not mind watching them in class or running across them on TV. So when my friends Celeste, Andy, and Fred told me they were going to watch the “King of Chinatown” documentary at PAX East, I thought