From investigations into Wikileaks and Scientology, Elizabeth Holmes and the battle in Afghanistan, Alex Gibney has made a few of the defining documentaries of our time. So it is sensible he’d now flip his consideration as a producer to one of many defining political figures of our time: long-serving Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In … Read more
Hillary Clinton inspired a movie pageant viewers in Telluride, Colorado, to “get again to a time when your authorities isn’t figuring out what your selections for your loved ones can be, which is simply so Handmaid’s Story.” Clinton was in Telluride on Saturday for the premiere of Zurawski v Texas, a documentary she produced a … Read more
When Lisa Henson first noticed Jim Henson Thought Man, the Ron Howard-directed documentary about her well-known puppeteer father, she immediately thought of it a hit. “It was fantastic to see that Ron had landed it,” Lisa tells THR. “We had hoped that within the storytelling, Ron would possibly be capable of channel a number of … Read more
The primary evening of the DNC in Chicago had an Academy Awards really feel — proper all the way down to the overruns and snubs. On an evening when Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, AOC and others introduced the United Middle crowd to its ft with rousing podium speeches — and Kamala Harris made a raucously … Read more
The Beatles are getting some consideration at this yr’s Venice Movie Competition, which unveiled its 2024 lineup on Tuesday. The legendary band, who dominated the music business for a complete decade from 1960, has earned spots within the prestigious fest’s documentary part in several capacities. Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ doc One to One: John … Read more
The so-called “troubled teen trade” is dealing with a contemporary spherical of scrutiny this summer time with the July premiere of Teen Torture, Inc., the brand new Max documentary in regards to the billion-dollar trade related to the kidnapping, abuse and brainwashing of younger Individuals. Paris Hilton spoke final week earlier than Congress to advocate … Read more
20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing and Oscar-winning documentary in regards to the siege of the Ukrainian port metropolis within the first days of Russia‘s full-scale invasion, introduced house the devastation wrought by struggle on a civilian inhabitants. A brand new documentary, Actual, premiering on the Karlovy Fluctuate worldwide Movie Pageant, exhibits the truth … Read more
Nishta Jain’s Farming the Revolution, a movie about Indian farmers rising up in opposition to new legal guidelines, picked up one of the best worldwide characteristic documentary prize on the Scorching Docs Canadian Worldwide Documentary Pageant on Friday night time. The highest jury prize win on the pageant means Jain’s movie, which world premiered at … Read more