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documentary
Mar. 22, 2023
Brooke Shields Found Her Confidence in New Documentary “I’m amazed I survived any of it,” says Shields, reflecting on her career as a child model and actress.
By Alejandra Gularte
how to with jerrod carmichael
Feb. 1, 2023
By Hershal Pandya
the vulture spot
Jan. 28, 2023
When Steph Curry Met Peter Nicks He Fumbled a Quesadilla It’s hard holding a quesadilla while wearing four championship rings.
By Alejandra Gularte
documentary
Jan. 24, 2023
How Margaret Brown Filmed One of the Year’s Most Telling Documentary Scenes The Descendant director couldn’t have anticipated the unearthing of the slave ship Clotilda or the silence from the family who’d owned it.
By Alison Willmore
the vulture spot
Jan. 24, 2023
The Indigo Girls Were Surprised They Made a Documentary Despite being scared, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers called the documentary a “huge honor.”
By Alejandra Gularte
how i get it done
Jan. 23, 2023
Inside the Cut’s ‘How I Get It Done’ Panel at Sundance Film Festival Latasha Gillespie, Alia Shawkat, and Lana Wilson spoke about morning routines and the perks of writing your own obituary.
By Bindu Bansinath
Stan Lee Will Make One More Cameo In an original Disney+ documentary.
By Alejandra Gularte
close reads
Dec. 27, 2022
Holy Spider ’s Ending Uncovers a Tangled Web of MisogynyHoly Spider is at its most precise and upsetting in the film’s final scene.
By Roxana Hadadi
Chaos Takes America in Andrew Callaghan’s HBO Special Produced by Tim and Eric, This Place Rules debuts on December 30.
By Hershal Pandya
movie review
Nov. 23, 2022
By Alison Willmore
The Many Intrigues of the Hamptons’ Most Secretive Island A new documentary short explores the mysteries of Gardiner’s Island — and the family behind it.
By Curbed editors
mental health
Nov. 3, 2022
Selena Gomez Opens Up About Living With Bipolar Disorder The singer reveals her experience with psychosis and details her diagnosis in her new documentary, My Mind and Me .
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
my single is dropping
Nov. 3, 2022
By Zoe Guy
exit interview
Nov. 2, 2022
‘I Couldn’t Believe the Things I Was Aspiring to Be’ For Selena Gomez, watching herself through the lens of My Mind & Me documentarian Alek Keshishian was shocking, upsetting, and necessary.
By Rachel Handler
trailer mix
Oct. 13, 2022
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Trailer Shows Nan Goldin Fighting Big PharmaThe upcoming film was the first documentary to win the Golden Lion in almost ten years.
By Jason P. Frank
earth without art is just eh
Sept. 16, 2022
Sinéad OʼConnor Knows What Art Can Do in Nothing Compares Trailer The new documentary from Kathryn Ferguson examines O’Connor’s fame and controversy.
By Jason P. Frank
I’m Nosy About Bulgari A documentary about the house is finally going to let me know why I’m too broke to afford it.
By Danya Issawi
5 questions with…
Aug. 8, 2022
By Martine Thompson
ear-bleeding country
Aug. 3, 2022
Confessions of a Dinosaur Jr. Guy What it means to be a fan lies somewhere in the fraught dynamic between these three men.
By Ryu Spaeth
my music documentary is dropping
July 20, 2022
By Zoe Guy
We’re Taking Sheryl Crow for Granted Crow has sold 35 million albums worldwide, but is not nearly credited enough for the sound she created.
By Marissa R. Moss
With Cow , Andrea Arnold Wanted to Show ‘the Aliveness of a Nonhuman Animal’ The director on calling an ambulance during a Cow screening, what she learned from Big Little Lies , and that photo of David Lynch next to a cow.
By Matthew Jacobs
secrets of playboy
Apr. 6, 2022
By Bindu Bansinath
Pamela Anderson Will ‘Tell the Real Story’ in a New Netflix Doc She said she’s “not a victim, but a survivor” in an Instagram post announcing the project.
By Mia Mercado
Janet Jackson Says She’s ‘Very Good Friends’ With Justin Timberlake In a new docuseries, she says they’ve “moved on, and it’s time for everyone else to do the same.”
By Danielle Cohen
kanye stressed
Jan. 21, 2022
By Ashley Shannon Wu
cheer-splainer
Jan. 14, 2022
How Does Cheer Season Two Address All the Controversy? Here’s how the Netflix series handles the drama surrounding season-one favorites Jerry Harris and La’Darius Marshall.
By Alejandra Gularte
the subject and the star
Dec. 7, 2021
Kenny G Is in on the Joke The pop saxophonist and the director of Listening to Kenny G discuss how their documentary about good and bad taste came to be.
By Chris Lee
Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back Accomplishes the Unthinkable It rises to the unenviable task of offering new insights into one of the most documented music careers of all time.
By Craig Jenkins
How The Rescue Re-enacted the 2018 Thai Cave Rescue With the Divers Who Lived It Directors and husband-and-wife duo E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin talk re-creating the rescue with some of its real-life heroes.
By Chris Lee
9/11: 20 years later
Sept. 10, 2021
The Persistent Outrage of Laura Poitras Twenty years after the “war on terror” began, the filmmaker behind a trilogy of post-9/11 documentaries remains profoundly angry.
By Bilge Ebiri
How Do You Tell John Walker Lindh’s Story? Even 20 years after his capture, no one wants to talk about the “American Taliban.” Greg Barker made a documentary about him anyway.
By Bilge Ebiri
trailer mix
Aug. 16, 2021
LuLaRich Trailer: MLM Moms Wake Up and Smell the Stinky LeggingsA “true-comedy” docuseries from the creators of Hulu’s Fyre Fraud .
By Zoe Haylock
documentary
Aug. 11, 2021
How Do You Make a Movie About Hitler in 2021? The Meaning of Hitler ’s Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein discuss releasing a doc about the legacy of Nazism in our post-Trump COVID era.
By Bilge Ebiri
documentaries
July 20, 2021
By Rebecca Alter
Val Kilmer Is Finally the Main Character The actor says he’s been filming himself for decades, and now his footage is a surprising and strange documentary, Val.
By Rachel Handler
The Perfect Documentary to Watch Ahead of the Olympics Naomi Osaka opens up about the pressure of being one of the world’s most influential athletes in a new Netflix series.
By Olivia Evans
music documentaries
May 24, 2021
What’s Really Worth Remembering About 1971’s Historic Year in Music Asif Kapadia’s Apple TV+ documentary is just a more serious I Love the ‘70s, a fun and often compelling walk down memory lane.
By Brady Gerber
oral histories
May 6, 2021
The Oral History of Madonna’s Truth or Dare Madonna’s seminal 1991 documentary had few precedents. That’s why it can’t be replicated today.
By Matthew Jacobs
#freebritney
Mar. 30, 2021
By Charu Sinha
movie review
Jan. 15, 2021
By Bilge Ebiri
trailer mix
Oct. 20, 2020
By Rebecca Alter
movie review
Oct. 8, 2020
In the Extraordinary Doc Time , a Family Chronicles Two Decades of Incarceration Garrett Bradley’s remarkable film folds together years of home-movie footage to provide a glimpse into activist Fox Rich’s fight for her family.
By Alison Willmore
Challenger: The Final Flight Unpacks a Moment of American Hope and HeartbreakIn revisiting the tragedy of 1986’s space shuttle explosion, the new Netflix docuseries draws out some compelling parallels to our present.
By Jen Chaney
Blackpink: Light Up the Sky to Light Up Netflix This OctoberThe documentary comes out just two weeks after the release of the K-pop girl group’s debut album.
By Chris Murphy
movie review
Sept. 4, 2020
Class Action Park Forces Us to Wrestle With Toxic NostalgiaThe HBO Max documentary starts out a fun flashback to a recklessly operated theme park, but it says something deeper about America’s nature.
By Jen Chaney
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