Tag: DOCUMENTARIES
The New York State Pavilion, a vestige of the 1964 World’s Fair, looks like a dying spaceship sitting in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, or maybe an airport left behind by some forgotten civilization. Once a a vibrant attraction that hosted tourists from all over, the pavilion has been mostly forgotten, unused since the 1970s. One New Yorker, a […]
Lone cowboy with wanderlust embarks on soul-searching adventure, meets girl who wants to settle down, gets torn between love and the open road… It’s a story we’ve heard before, but somehow, Janapar manages to come off as fresh and original. Maybe it’s the gorgeous shots of the exotic, off-the-beaten-path landscapes that protagonist Tom Allen bikes […]
Depending on your neighborhood, you may have come across people who pick up your recyclable garbage as soon as you put it on the curb, and if you’re smart, you probably realized they’re doing so because they can turn the bottles, cans, and various other scraps in for cash. What you may not know is […]
In Alamogordo, New Mexico, there’s a landfill stuffed with 14 truckloads of Atari games, consoles and other hardware. The company dumped the stuff–mostly unpopular or defective games–in 1983, and it’s been sitting there ever since. Apparently, there are literally millions of copies of 1982’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, which, as you can see from the screenshot above, was not […]
Tonight marks the premiere of If These Knishes Could Talk, a documentary exploring the New York accent in all its colors and flavors. In the trailer above, everyone from Italian Brooklynites to Asian Staten Islanders weigh in on how their speech does or doesn’t define them, and discuss the history and future of the venerable squawk. “It’s […]
This is what a documentary about DFA should look like: good-natured, energetic, no portentous interviews about meaning and “lasting significance.” 12 Years of DFA: Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic qucikly chronicles the history and current affairs of the stupidly consistent NYC label founded on the principles of having a good time, touching […]
No, not that Death. This Death. The seminal pre-punk punk band from Detroit, formed in 1971, didn’t receive proper recognition until the 2000s, and now, they’re getting a fantastic looking documentary tribute. Alice Cooper and Henry Rollins both show up to pay tribute in the trailer, but the most magical moment comes when the son […]
British television network ITV recently commissioned a documentary about Now That’s What I Call Music, the second-most iconic popular music compilation of all time (behind only Pure Moods, of course). Produced by Reef Television, the house behind such masterpieces as The Grape Escape, Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses, and Britain’s First Photo Album Presented by John Seargant, the film will presumably tell […]
If the above trailer doesn’t get you jazzed up to paint the shit out of some signs, I don’t know what would. Seriously, this thing looks amazing, plus it features a cameo from sign painting fanatic Steve Powers aka ESPO. Sign Painters begins screening in March. […]
The Square is a documentary on the protests, police violence and the reactionary revolution in Egypt, centered around Tahrir Square in Cairo. See the brutality, the attempts at oppression by destroying cameras belonging to news outlets, and the bravery of the citizens documenting this uprising by sending out raw, unedited video out to media outlets outside […]
