Starting today with the Sigur Rós concert film “Inni” and into the Christmas holidays, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is about to be flooded with documentaries — 10 to be exact. Given the state of documentary film these days, this is a good thing indeed. In the week to come, two very different works […]
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Starting today with the Sigur Rós concert film “Inni” and into the Christmas holidays, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is about to be flooded with documentaries — 10 to be exact. Given the state of documentary film these days, this is a good thing indeed. In the week to come, two very different works […]
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Senna / Tabloid
Starting today with the Sigur Rós concert film “Inni” and into the Christmas holidays, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is about to be flooded with documentaries — 10 to be exact. Given the state of documentary film these days, this is a good thing indeed. In the week to come, two very different works […]
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More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
Although viewed as one step away from being pornography by its own studio, Orion Pictures, the low-budget spin-off from George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” proved to be an instant hit with audiences and critics, even overshadowing Romero’s own “Night” sequel that summer, “Day of the Dead.” Today, “Return” continues to enjoy a […]
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More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
Although viewed as one step away from being pornography by its own studio, Orion Pictures, the low-budget spin-off from George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” proved to be an instant hit with audiences and critics, even overshadowing Romero’s own “Night” sequel that summer, “Day of the Dead.” Today, “Return” continues to enjoy a […]
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More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
Although viewed as one step away from being pornography by its own studio, Orion Pictures, the low-budget spin-off from George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” proved to be an instant hit with audiences and critics, even overshadowing Romero’s own “Night” sequel that summer, “Day of the Dead.” Today, “Return” continues to enjoy a […]
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Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
Things did not go according to plan. Ratings tanked for both Leno and O’Brien. After less than eight months. NBC returned Leno to the time slot, effectively giving O’Brien the boot. The brouhaha sparked a jaw-dropping level of outrage as TV viewers across the country took sides. If only wars prompted as much public engagement. […]
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Buck
Could do without horses? You’re going to love “Buck.” Winner of the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, the documentary tells the story of Buck Brannaman, Wyoming-based horse whisperer. He travels three-fourths of the year, conducting clinics all over the nation on breaking horses — and sometimes their owners — of bad behavior. What’s […]
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Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode
In other words, it’s more than a little dry, and a lot like watching a slideshow. Instead of being a first-class treatment of its undeniably interesting subject, it can’t afford standard doc fare like film clips, so it settles for scrolling over movie posters for anything not in the public domain, leaving us with grainy […]
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Houdini
Narrated by Mandy Patinkin, the just-OK doc traces his meteoric rise from immigrant to death-defying superstar to spiritualist exposer. Those who’ve never read a book on Houdini — I highly recommend William Kalush and Larry Sloman’s “The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero” — are sure to learn something, but for current […]