The end-of-life documentaries that focus on natural death struggle with the question as to whether cinematic technology is able to express death as an event and whether it should even aspire to do so. In the process of filming dying people, questions of vulnerability, privacy, and empowerment...
With the death consciousness movement on the rise, the conversation about death and dying is picking up in the mainstream. The top documentaries about deathare not only NOT on the fringe, they are winning awards, returning huge at the box office and sparking a larger conversation about the iss...
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Launched two years ago, on the centenary of American urban activist Jane Jacobs, the film aims to present a glimpse of Jacobs' past, based on his book,The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and on the confrontations with Robert Moses, stressing the legacy of this prominent figure in...
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Focusing on Michael Peterson and the death of his wife Kathleen, The Staircase is more than just a murder mystery. It's a drawn-out epic that takes place over literal decades, a documentary that follows Peterson and examines his every move, but somehow still remains objective. ...
50. “Mr. Bachmann and His Class” (2021) “Mr. Bachmann and His Class”Courtesy Everett Collection Maria Speth proves herself a cinematic heir to Frederick Wiseman with this 217-minute “fly on the wall” depiction of about six months in the classroom of an elementary school for immigrant...
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and their inability to make peace even when Joey was dying of lymphoma. All four original Ramones sat for new interviews, and it adds a layer of sorrow to a film that’s already built around frustration and acrimony to note that all four original members have passed on. Thanks to this, ...
This film focuses largely on stunt work gone wrong, as well as death in sports. Several scenes involve the attempt by Kenny Powers to jump a rocket-powered car over the Saint Lawrence River in Canada and land over one mile away in New York. Also featured nearly in its entirety is the ...