Wednesday 19 Jun
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Documentary
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
The definition of art is challenged — often with full nudity — in a dynamic documentary.
OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
A documentary of one man’s battle with OCD, depression and autism, is the feel-bad film of the year.
Documentary
Rod Lott
OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
5:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch
okcmoa.com
236-3100
$5-$8
Searching for Sugar Man
One sweet rockumentary.
Documentary
Phil Bacharach
This is a golden age of documentaries, and I don’t mean the propagandistic variety via Michael Moore or 2016: Obama’s America. Given the pervasive timidity and lack of imagination in Hollywood today, film buffs are well advised to take stock of documentaries, where the most gripping stories are being told.
Nitro Circus: The Movie
Wow! Ouch!
Documentary
Rod Lott
Granted only a limited theatrical release this summer, Nitro Circus: The Movie is like Jackass with more athleticism, more engineering know-how, more maturity, more corporate sponsors, and much less testicular trauma.
The Right to Love: An American Family
A documentary follows one gay couple’s fight for ‘The Right to Love.’
Documentary
Rod Lott
Just handfuls of hours ago, as part of Election Day, the Senate gained its first openly gay senator. Even to a heterosexual male like me, the win of Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin is an encouraging step that our country is slowly starting to accept that we aren’t all alike, that differences should be celebrated, rather than feared.
Dust to dust
The latest film by acclaimed documentarian Ken Burns chronicles a dark, dusty chapter in Oklahoma history.
Features
Phil Bacharach
Even after 80-plus years, Oklahoma remains firmly identified with, and haunted by, the Dust Bowl.
The Definitive Document of the Dead
It’s all messed up.
Documentary
Rod Lott
Significantly updated from his 1985 documentary, The Definitive Document of the Dead promises to be the last word director Roy Frumkes has to say on his subject of zombie godfather George A. Romero. If not, perhaps it should be.
With Great Power ...: The Stan Lee Story
A not-quite-Marvelous look at a pop-culture giant.
Documentary
Rod Lott
There's a great story surrounding Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. I know because a month ago, I read all about it in Sean Howe’s new book about the very topic. As for the documentary With Great Power ...: The Stan Lee Story, however, it's perfectly fine if the only portrait you care to see is superficial, self-laudatory and largely wart-free.
