Posts filed under 'documentary'
TURN EVERY PAGE- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A documentary about the remarkable fifty-year relationship between two literary legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb. Now 86, Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterwork, The Years of Lyndon Johnson; Gottlieb, 90, waits to edit it. The task of finishing their life’s work looms before them. Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb is an intimate look into artistry, mortality, antagonism, and the transformative power of creative collaboration.”
1/1/2023. Very good reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
Tags: documentary
January 1st, 2023
WILDCAT- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Wildcat follows the emotional and inspiring story of a young veteran (Harry Turner) on his journey into the Amazon. Once there, he meets a young woman (Samantha Zwicker) running a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation center, and his life finds new meaning as he is entrusted with the life of an orphaned baby ocelot. What was meant to be an attempt to escape from life turns out to be an unexpected journey of love, discovery, and healing.”
1/1/2023- Very good reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
1/2/23- I liked the movie. TRDB.
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January 1st, 2023
NELLY & NADINE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbru?ck concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family.”
12/20/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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December 20th, 2022
THE VOLCANO: RESCUE FROM WHAKAARI- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called upon to do extraordinary things, placing this tragic event within the larger context of nature, resilience, and the power of our shared humanity.”
12/20/22- Good reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
1/2/23- I enjoyed this movie that showed both individual courage and the unpredictability of nature. TRDB.
Tags: documentary
December 20th, 2022
CHILDREN OF THE MIST- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Di is a 12-year-old girl living in Vietnam. She belongs to the Hmong ethnic minority where women get married very young, enduring the controversial tradition of “bride-kidnapping.” On the Lunar New Year’s Eve, Di has disappeared.”
12/20/22- Just a few reviews for this Vietnamese documentary and they are terrific. TRDB.
Tags: documentary, Foreign
December 20th, 2022
THE SUPER 8 YEARS- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following (and whose autobiographical L’Événement was adapted just last year into the critically acclaimed film Happening), opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family’s memory.”
12/18/22- Excellent reviews for this French documentary. TRDB.
Tags: documentary, Foreign
December 18th, 2022
PELOSI IN THE HOUSE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In her 14th documentary film for HBO, acclaimed documentarian Alexandra Pelosi offers a candid, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the life of her mother and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, through her career milestones leading up to the inauguration of President Joseph Biden in January 2021. Filmed in a cinéma vérité style over the course of three decades, PELOSI IN THE HOUSE provides a unique, longitudinal window into the life of a longstanding Democratic politician and history in the making.”
12/18/22- Fair reviews from the critics and poor ones from audiences but I liked this documentary very much. TRDB.
Tags: documentary
December 18th, 2022
TO THE END- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, TO THE END captures the emergence of a new generation of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history.”
12/13/22- Fair to good reviews. TRDB.
Tags: documentary
December 13th, 2022
SIMPLE AS WATER- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Epic in scope but intimate and elegant in feel, SIMPLE AS WATER is a meditation on the elemental bonds between parent and child. A masterful look at the impact of war, separation and displacement, the film takes audiences into Syrian families’ quests for normalcy and through the whirlwind of obstacles — to building life anew. Filmed over the course of five years in five countries including Turkey, Greece, Germany, Syria and the US, Mylan’s sensitive camera reifies the universal importance of family.”
12/12/21- Excellent reviews by all of the critics. TRDB.
Tags: documentary, Foreign
December 12th, 2022
SR.- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Robert Downey Jr. pays tribute to his late father in this documentary chronicling the life and eclectic career of pioneering filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.”
12/4/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
Tags: documentary
December 4th, 2022
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