Check out these 6 film reviews of mine at Film Festival Today from the past two weeks:
Enjoy!
@fogoftruth Bonus Episode: Our Respective Top 10 Documentaries of 2018
Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year where everyone loves to assemble top-ten lists of all sorts. In this bonus episode, we each discuss our top ten documentaries of this year and the general trends we are seeing in 2018 doc films. Please note that ANY documentary that we profiled on our podcast is worth watching, even if it didn’t make the Top 10! As always, you can find the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available. Enjoy!
Our next bonus episode will air sometime in January, with reviews of films playing at the 2019 Sundance and Slamdance film festivals. A few weeks after that, we will launch our fifth season, with interviews conducted in Park City, UT, at those two film festivals, featuring the directors whose films we will have reviewed in the January bonus episode. Stay tuned!
Here are our lists:
Bart’s Top 10 List (in alphabetical order):
- 209 Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, 10ème – The Neighbours / 2018 (Director:Ruth Zylberman)
- 306 Hollywood / 2018 (Directors:Elan Bogarin & Jonathan Bogarin)
- Bisbee ‘17 / 2018 (Directors: Robert Greene)
- Minding the Gap /2018 (Director: Bing Liu)
- Our New President / 2018 (Directors: Maxim Podorovkin)
- RBG / 2018 (Directors / Producers: Julie Cohen & Betsy West)
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead /2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Wild Wild Country / 2018 (Creators: Chapman Way & Maclain Way)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? / 2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Yours in Sisterhood / 2018 (Director: Irene Lusztig)
Chris’ Top 10 List (in alphabetical order):
- The Dawn Wall /2018 (Directors: Josh Lowell & Peter Mortimer)
- Free Solo /2018 (Directors: Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening /2018 (Director: RaMell Ross)
- Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. / 2018 (Director: Stephen Loveridge)
- Our New President / 2018 (Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin)
- RBG / 2018 (Directors: Julie Cohen & Betsy West)
- Science Fair /2018 (Directors: Cristina Costantini & Darren Foster)
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead /2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Three Identical Strangers /2018 (Director: Tim Wardle)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? / 2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
Summre’s Top 10 List (in alphabetical order):
- 209 Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, 10ème – The Neighbours / 2018 (Director:Ruth Zylberman)
- Ingrid / 2018 (Director: Morrisa Maltz)
- The King / 2018 (Director:Eugene Jarecki)
- Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End / 2018 (Director: Pablo Bryant)
- RBG / 2018 (Directors: Julie Cohen & Betsy West)
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead /2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Three Identical Strangers /2018 (Director: Tim Wardle)
- United Skates / 2018 (Directors: Dyana Winkler & Tina Brown)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? / (2018) USA (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Yours in Sisterhood / 2018 (Director: Irene Lusztig)
6 Reviews @filmfesttoday: THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, CREED II, THE FRONT RUNNER, GREEN BOOK, NEVER LOOK AWAY, RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET
Check out these 6 film reviews of mine at Film Festival Today from the past month:
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
- Creed II
- The Front Runner
- Green Book
- Never Look Away
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
Enjoy!
Coverage of DOC NYC 2018 at @hammertonail (Part 2)
This year’s DOC NYC (November 7-14) offered its usual terrific selection of documentary films. Here are additional reviews from Hammer to Nail:
- Free Solo
- Ghost Fleet
- The Ghost of Peter Sellers
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening
- The Kleptocrats
- Silicone Soul
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Enjoy!
Coverage of DOC NYC 2018 at @filmfesttoday and @hammertonail (Part 1)
This year’s DOC NYC (November 7-14) offered its usual terrific selection of documentary films. Here is my initial coverage of the fest for both Film Festival Today and Hammer to Nail:
- Film Festival Today Five Docs to Watch
- Beyond the Bolex review
- The Cat Rescuers review
- Decade of Fire review
- The 5 Browns: Digging Through the Darkness review
- Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin interview with Arwen Curry
- Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin review
Enjoy!
“Reel Talk” – with Chris Reed and Denise Kitashima Dutton – on “Halloween” (and Other Horror), “Boy Erased” and “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead”
Christopher Llewellyn Reed, “Reel Talk” host, w/ Denise Kitashima Dutton, of “Atomic Fan Girl”
Welcome to the second episode of the 2018-2019 season of Dragon Digital Media‘s Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed. My guest this time was the Atomic Fan Girl herself, Denise Kitashima Dutton, returning to the show once more. We discussed Halloween (and a little bit of Suspiria), as well as Denise’s other favorite recent horror films (and how the genre is not really my thing), plus Boy Erased and They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, the new Netflix documentary about Orson Welles’ last film. Enjoy? Be sure to check out our first episode of the season, or even last year’s season (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4 and Episode 5). We’ll be back in January. Until then!
In Howard County, Maryland, you can watch the show on Channel 41 (if you’re a Verizon customer) or Channel 96 (if you’re a Comcast customer), and you can watch it online from anywhere. The fantastic Dragon Digital Media team did their usual superlative job putting this together, especially producer Karen Vadnais and director Danielle Maloney, as well as floor manager Anthony Hoos. Have fun this summer at the movies! Here’s hoping there are at least a few great films!
8 Reviews @filmfesttoday: GALVESTON, THE GUILTY, MARIA BY CALLAS, THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN, OUTLAW KING, STUDIO 54, SUSPIRIA, WIDOWS
Check out these 8 film reviews of mine at Film Festival Today from the past month:
Enjoy!
Coverage of 2018 Middleburg Film Festival at @filmfesttoday and @hammertonail
This year’s Middleburg Film Festival (October 18-21) was a blast, as always. Here is my coverage of the fest for both Film Festival Today and Hammer to Nail:
- Film Festival Today Top Five
- Ben Is Back interview with Lucas Hedges
- Ben Is Back review
- Boy Erased interview with Joel Edgerton
- Boy Erased review
- The Favourite review
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead review
Enjoy!
7 Reviews @hammertonail: ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT, BURNING, THE DEVIL WE KNOW, LEZ BOMB, LIFE AND NOTHING MORE, LIYANA, TIME TRAP
Check out these 7 film reviews of mine from Hammer to Nail from the past month:
Enjoy!
Episode 406 of @fogoftruth Is Now Up, with Review of 78/52: HITCHCOCK’S SHOWER SCENE and Interview with Kimberly Reed of DARK MONEY
In a special Halloween-themed episode of The Fog of Truth, things get spooky as we talk about the myriad of horror documentaries available online, review 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene, and Chris interviews Kimberly Reed of Dark Money. As always, you can find the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available.
This episode concludes our fourth season. We’ll be taking a longer break than usual between this and Season 5, which will begin just after the start of the Sundance and Slamdance festivals, at the end of January. Stay tuned for our first of two bonus episodes, however, sometime in December. Until then, you can get even foggier by going back and listening to our previous episodes. Enjoy!
