Did you know that Henry David Thoreau once went to jail for refusing to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War? There’s a famous story—perhaps a myth—about Ralph Waldo Emerson visiting him in jail and asking, “Henry, why are you here?” To which Thoreau...
“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard.” That classic show business adage comes to mind when reflecting on the Oscar-nominated documentary COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT. Directed by Ryan White, the film follows celebrated poet Andrea Gibson after a cancer diagnosis...
Oscar®-nominated director Geeta Gandbhir joins our Academy Award Documentary Spotlight to discuss THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR and the making of this year’s Best Documentary Feature nominee. “Get off my lawn.” It’s something many of us heard as kids after wandering...
The phrase “observational documentary” immediately evokes cinéma vérité pioneers like Frederick Wiseman and the Maysles Brothers—filmmakers who defined the art of patient, fly-on-the-wall storytelling. With their Academy Award–nominated...
If one were to make the case that the Space Age started in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik, then it follows that someone born in 1942 has arguably spent their entire adult life living in the Space Age. But if that someone is Gentry Lee, then not only have they...
Like Ingmar Bergman pivoting from the existential weight of THE SEVENTH SEAL to the gentler, more reflective tone of WILD STRAWBERRIES, Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason follows his critically acclaimed 2023 film GODLAND...
