I remember as a teenager reading Lois Duncan’s “I Know Who Killed My Daughter,” a gateway tome for many future true crime lovers. It was a story gripping in its narrative, but also utterly terrifying in the realization that homicide can touch anyone and leave a family with only fragments of tinted memories of who their loved one was, with a lack of answers into their death hanging over their head. I have no doubt that Madison Hamburg’s “Murder on Middle Beach,” on HBO will feel familiar to those who have read Duncan’s story — or that of any crime victim.
On March 3, 2010 Barbara Beach Hamburg was found murdered on her front lawn. The suspect pool seemed small and obvious; Hamburg was going through a contentious divorce with her husband who owed her a significant amount of alimony and child support. But as with most true crime documentaries,...
On March 3, 2010 Barbara Beach Hamburg was found murdered on her front lawn. The suspect pool seemed small and obvious; Hamburg was going through a contentious divorce with her husband who owed her a significant amount of alimony and child support. But as with most true crime documentaries,...
- 11/13/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Josh Braun, producer of some of the best documentaries in the world, joins Josh and Joe to discuss the movies that have influenced him throughout his life.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Man On Wire (2008)
The Cove (2009)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Encounters At The End of the World (2007)
Winnebago Man (2009)
Spellbound (2002)
Supersize Me (2004)
Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
Apollo 11 (2019)
The Edge of Democracy (2019)
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Searching For Sugarman (2012)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Frat House (1998)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
The Exorcist (1973)
Go West (1940)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
Hello Down There (1974)
What’s Up Doc? (1972)
El Topo (1970)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Female Trouble (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Monterey Pop (1968)
Grey Gardens (1975)
Grey Gardens (2009)
Titicut Follies (1967)
To Have And Have Not (1944)
All About Eve...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Man On Wire (2008)
The Cove (2009)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Encounters At The End of the World (2007)
Winnebago Man (2009)
Spellbound (2002)
Supersize Me (2004)
Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
Apollo 11 (2019)
The Edge of Democracy (2019)
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Searching For Sugarman (2012)
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Frat House (1998)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
The Exorcist (1973)
Go West (1940)
A Night In Casablanca (1946)
Hello Down There (1974)
What’s Up Doc? (1972)
El Topo (1970)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Female Trouble (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
Gimme Shelter (1970)
Monterey Pop (1968)
Grey Gardens (1975)
Grey Gardens (2009)
Titicut Follies (1967)
To Have And Have Not (1944)
All About Eve...
- 7/21/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
“I never should have written ‘Hip to be Square’ in the third-person,” says Huey Lewis of the News fame. The man who has sold more than 30 million records, spawning such ‘80s classics as “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” “I Want a New Drug,” the Oscar-nominated “The Power of Love” and the song he’s fretting about now, a narrative lynchpin in both the book and film of Brett Easton Ellis/Mary Harron’s “American Psycho.” “People though I was singing about myself.”
The 69-year-old, longtime pal Jimmy Kimmel’s favorite rock star, is making a push for his underappreciated legacy with a pleasingly backward-looking blues/R&b, horns-heavy seven-song album, “Weather,” out on Feb. 14 via BMG Rights Management.
The album arrives at a bittersweet time, as Lewis has been suffering from a rare inner-ear disorder called Meniere’s Disease that causes his hearing to suddenly diminish, making it impossible for him to perform.
The 69-year-old, longtime pal Jimmy Kimmel’s favorite rock star, is making a push for his underappreciated legacy with a pleasingly backward-looking blues/R&b, horns-heavy seven-song album, “Weather,” out on Feb. 14 via BMG Rights Management.
The album arrives at a bittersweet time, as Lewis has been suffering from a rare inner-ear disorder called Meniere’s Disease that causes his hearing to suddenly diminish, making it impossible for him to perform.
- 2/4/2020
- by Roy Trakin
- Variety Film + TV
Making a Murderer, Netflix's original true-crime series captivated the country this Christmas, with critics hailing it as the next Serial-esque obsession.
Online sleuths are already positing their own theories as to who killed young photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. We'll leave the question of whether Steven Avery – a man who already served prison time once before for a gruesome crime he didn't commit – to the meticulous Redditors poring over the infamous case. Though Making a Murder has already been compared to HBO's Robert Durst miniseries The Jinx, here are three more true tales dealing with police corruption, wrongful convictions and crimes...
Online sleuths are already positing their own theories as to who killed young photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. We'll leave the question of whether Steven Avery – a man who already served prison time once before for a gruesome crime he didn't commit – to the meticulous Redditors poring over the infamous case. Though Making a Murder has already been compared to HBO's Robert Durst miniseries The Jinx, here are three more true tales dealing with police corruption, wrongful convictions and crimes...
- 12/30/2015
- by Michele Corriston, @mcorriston
- People.com - TV Watch
Kurt Kuenne‘s best-known film is Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, which is famous for being possibly the most gut-wrenching documentary of all time. He made a lot of people weep with devastation with that one, and now he’s got a new doc that will have you crying happy tears instead. Kuenne is not the director of Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World – that would be Dana Nachman – but his hand in its making, as co-writer and editor, is definitely significant. And that’s good for him, as it kind of balances out his earlier film’s heartbreaking story with one that’s extremely heartwarming. In case you were living under a rock back in November 2013, “Batkid” was a five-year-old boy who became a worldwide phenomenon when the Make-a-Wish Foundation granted his desire to be the Caped Crusader, and more than 10,000 people helped to turn San Francisco into “Gotham...
- 1/25/2015
- by Nonfics.com
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Why the Slamdance Film Festival isn't more celebrated for its documentary finds each year is a question I ask, well, every year. Sure, its annual feature-doc program isn't filled exclusively with good movies, but neither is Sundance nor any other festival. There have been at least a few in every crop of eight-or-so titles that I'd recommend, and in most year's there's at least one really terrific work. Look at some of the successes to come out of Slamdance for proof that it's worthy of serious doc fans' attendance: Mad Hot Ballroom, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists and Steven Soderbergh's And Everything Is Going Fine all had their premieres at...
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- 1/22/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Editor's Note: A few months ago, Gathr founder Scott Glosserman laid out the case for Theatrical On Demand℠ platforms in his piece 'Gathr is the Love Child of Netflix and Kickstarter.' As a follow-up, we thought it would be helpful to present a case study from a filmmaker who has used the service to generate theatrical audiences for his film. This week, Kurt Kuenne walks us through his experience. Every filmmaker wants his or her movie to play in theatres. Seeing a great movie on the big screen is what made most of us want to make movies in the first place. But I learned a surprising lesson on my last film, a low-budget documentary called Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father. The film was released in theatres and on home video by the wonderful Oscilloscope Laboratories, founded by David Fenkel and the late, great Adam Yauch.
- 11/20/2012
- TribecaFilm.com
Dear Zachary Director, Kurt Kuenne Talks Shuffle! Click above to Listen Now! Jimmy O sits down with Kurt Kuenne, the man behind one of the most powerful documentaries of the last decade (Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father), to talk about his new film Shuffle (available now on DVD and Netflix streaming). Law and Moreno take it from there and answer a few emails about remakes and child actors. There's more 'Sons of Anarchy', 'Boardwalk Empire' and 'Boss'...
- 10/8/2012
- by Jim Law
- JoBlo.com
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! As always, if you see something you like, click on the image to buy it. Shuffle Every time Lovell falls asleep he awakens at a different point of his life. His thirty year old mind and memories remain intact as a ten year old, a ninety year old, and anywhere in between. Things get even more complicated when he discovers his wife has died under potentially mysterious circumstances, but can he use his uncontrollable life-hopping ability to make things right? It’s tough making science fiction films on an indie budget, but writer/director Kurt Kuenne (Dear Zachary: A Letter To a Son About His Father) takes a sci-fi concept and uses it to tell a very human story. Loss, redemption, and forgiveness are just a few of the themes shown to transcend time, and the film explores them with beauty, humor and vitality. [Extras: Trailer, festival video diaries, making-of, black & white version] Breathless...
- 8/21/2012
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We're continuing to see a lot of documentary filmmakers make the jump to fiction as of late, (ie. Seth Gordon, Errol Morris, heck, even Morgan Spurlock also just revealed that he is shooting his first narrative film this summer), and although it makes sense from a career standpoint, it makes you realize that not every non-fiction director is cut out to direct fiction. So what about Kurt Kuenne, the man behind the acclaimed crime documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father? He was criticized by some for turning his non-fiction film into a very personal and passionate diatribe against the Canadian justice system, but it did make for a better story. Now he's putting those storytelling skills to use with his first fictional feature Shuffle, and it looks like it paid off as the movie just picked up a distributor. Shuffle is a science-fiction piece about...
- 4/11/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Article by Dan Clark of Movie Revolt
Welcome to the first installment of Streaming for Your Pleasure where I highlight interesting and unique films now available on Netflix streaming. In each segment I will focus on one major overall category – this first time round I am looking at some intriguing documentaries that are worth checking out.
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
Directed By Lincoln Ruchti
Synopsis: At the unassuming Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, early gamers fought for bragging rights at the 1982 Video Game World Championships. See how competitive gaming started, and meet arcade owner Walter Day, who still oversees scoring.
Why You Should Check It Out: There is just something about that arcade experience that I really miss. Today’s online gaming world is full of foul mouth preteen kids mocking you in almost every turn. Back in the day those kids were standing right next to you...
Welcome to the first installment of Streaming for Your Pleasure where I highlight interesting and unique films now available on Netflix streaming. In each segment I will focus on one major overall category – this first time round I am looking at some intriguing documentaries that are worth checking out.
Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
Directed By Lincoln Ruchti
Synopsis: At the unassuming Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, early gamers fought for bragging rights at the 1982 Video Game World Championships. See how competitive gaming started, and meet arcade owner Walter Day, who still oversees scoring.
Why You Should Check It Out: There is just something about that arcade experience that I really miss. Today’s online gaming world is full of foul mouth preteen kids mocking you in almost every turn. Back in the day those kids were standing right next to you...
- 4/9/2012
- by Guest
- Nerdly
Here's a trailer to a very interesting sci-fi movie called Shuffle, with a very cool concept. The movie was written and directed by Kurt Kuenne (Dear Zachary) and it's described as a cross between Groundhog Day and Memento.
It's the story of a man played by Tj Thyne "who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, in a different year, on a different day of his life." He "has no idea why he keeps waking up at different points in his life. Using clues from each experience, he begins to piece together why this keeps happening to him and sets out to end it once and for all."
I really like that concept and it looks like it was executed pretty well. It has a nice Twilight Zone kind of vibe to it. Watch the trailer and let us know if...
It's the story of a man played by Tj Thyne "who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, in a different year, on a different day of his life." He "has no idea why he keeps waking up at different points in his life. Using clues from each experience, he begins to piece together why this keeps happening to him and sets out to end it once and for all."
I really like that concept and it looks like it was executed pretty well. It has a nice Twilight Zone kind of vibe to it. Watch the trailer and let us know if...
- 4/9/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Last week we brought you distribution news regarding the next film from the helmer of the tragic documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, and now a trailer has arrived. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, he is switching up genres with the sci-fi film Shuffle, which takes a Groundhog Day cue and follows “a man who wakes up at a different age in his life each morning.” I like the concept and while it doesn’t seem to be the most technically proficient film, I hope Kuenne can stir up the same kinds of emotion here in an entirely different genre. Starring T.J. Thyne and Paula Rhodes, one can check it out below via Movies.com.
Shuffle is the tale of a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life,...
Shuffle is the tale of a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life,...
- 4/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
If you've yet to discover the heartbreaking documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (watch it on Netflix Instant now), you're missing out on one of the best docs of the past five years and a really good cry. Director Kurt Kuenne, however, isn't exactly a star filmmaker, but he's sticking to his guns and has been making the rounds at film festivals with a narrative feature film called Shuffle. The film calls back to Groundhog Day with the story of a man who keeps waking up at various points in his life and must piece together why this is happening and how to make it stop. And now we have the first trailer below! Here's the trailer for Kurt Kuenne's Shuffle brought to our attention by Movies.com: Shuffle is written and directed by Kurt Kuenne (Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father...
- 4/9/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Easily the most heart-wrenching, emotionally draining film I’ve ever seen is Kurt Kuenne‘s devistaing, enraging, but incredible documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. If you haven’t seen it, head to Netflix or Amazon and watch it now with a big box of tissues. It’ll make the news that comprises the rest [...]...
- 4/9/2012
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
I was so incredibly moved by Kurt Kuenne's documentary Dear Zachary: a Letter to a Son About His Father back when I saw it in a packed Slamdance screening room full of sobbing moviegoers in 2008 that I decided to champion the hell out if from that day forward. After months of writing about the film, which Kurt made in honor of his best friend Andrew, who was murdered by a woman he had been dating, I struck up a personal friendship with the director and helped out in any way I could once the documentary finally aired on television, and then later lead to changes in Canadian law. To this day pushing that film to the moviegoing public and building awareness of the crimes it documents remains one of my personal career highlights, and I'm happy to see Kurt Kuenne -- a great guy...
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- 4/6/2012
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
If you have yet to see the tragic documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, I urge you to go seek it out without getting informed in terms of any sort of plot. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, the power of the film had a lot to do with uncontrollable events and so I’ve been interested to see if he has what it takes to helm something not under these circumstances. It looks like we’ll get to see the results soon, as Variety reports his next film has been picked up for distribution.
He has switched from documentary format to narrative for the sci-fi film Shuffle, which follows “a man who wakes up at a different age in his life each morning.” Starring T.J. Thyne and Paula Rhodes, distributor Screen Media Films has picked it up for distribution later this year and president Suzanne Blech...
He has switched from documentary format to narrative for the sci-fi film Shuffle, which follows “a man who wakes up at a different age in his life each morning.” Starring T.J. Thyne and Paula Rhodes, distributor Screen Media Films has picked it up for distribution later this year and president Suzanne Blech...
- 3/30/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Another flick to just hit our radar is Shuffle and after digging a bit into the meaty details of the flick we've deemed the endeavor cool enough to clue you in on. Read on for the first word and look at the teaser art!
Part "Twilight Zone"-style mystery, part Frank Capra fantasy, Shuffle stars Tj Thyne, star of the hit TV show "Bones", in his first turn as a leading man in a feature film. The film’s voluminous prosthetic old age make-up is by Barney Burman, winner of the 2010 Academy Award® for Best Make-up for Star Trek. The film was written, directed and scored by Kurt Kuenne, filmmaker of the acclaimed documentary Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father and the hit short film Validation, also starring Tj Thyne.
Shuffle is world premiering at the Hollywood Film Festival on October 21st and headed to the...
Part "Twilight Zone"-style mystery, part Frank Capra fantasy, Shuffle stars Tj Thyne, star of the hit TV show "Bones", in his first turn as a leading man in a feature film. The film’s voluminous prosthetic old age make-up is by Barney Burman, winner of the 2010 Academy Award® for Best Make-up for Star Trek. The film was written, directed and scored by Kurt Kuenne, filmmaker of the acclaimed documentary Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father and the hit short film Validation, also starring Tj Thyne.
Shuffle is world premiering at the Hollywood Film Festival on October 21st and headed to the...
- 10/13/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Filed under: Features, Festivals, Hot Docs Film Festival, Moviefone Canada
One of the best fests (and our favorite) for movie fanatics is Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Celebrating anything and everything documentary, every year Hot Docs is overflowing with great features that not only teach or inspire but also engage us just as skillfully, happily and heart-wrenchingly as mainstream feature films. In recent years, we've learned how 'Girls Rock!'; how Euripides can speak to modern violence with 'Protagonist'; the verbose life of Spalding Gray with 'And Everything Is Going Fine'; and the struggle for Canadian justice with 'Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.'
This year the festival -- which runs from April 28-May 8 -- has a little of everything, from features by award-winning filmmakers like James Marsh ('Project Nim') to the beats of A Tribe Called Quest,...
One of the best fests (and our favorite) for movie fanatics is Toronto's Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Celebrating anything and everything documentary, every year Hot Docs is overflowing with great features that not only teach or inspire but also engage us just as skillfully, happily and heart-wrenchingly as mainstream feature films. In recent years, we've learned how 'Girls Rock!'; how Euripides can speak to modern violence with 'Protagonist'; the verbose life of Spalding Gray with 'And Everything Is Going Fine'; and the struggle for Canadian justice with 'Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.'
This year the festival -- which runs from April 28-May 8 -- has a little of everything, from features by award-winning filmmakers like James Marsh ('Project Nim') to the beats of A Tribe Called Quest,...
- 4/27/2011
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Moviefone
For our first documentary special in quite some time, we decided to give ourselves an emotional beating for some reason by sticking with an unusual theme: three docs that focus on miscarriages of justice. First up in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, which made famous the case of the West Memphis Three; then we skip ahead to 2008′s Witch Hunt, which chronicles a rash of mistaken convictions for child molestation in Florida in the mid-80s; finally, we’ll be talking about Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Kurt Kuenne’s emotionally wrenching advocacy piece / rememberance / home movie about the death of his best friend and the turmoil that followed. Amidst the true-crime grimness, Simon tries to crack a joke or two (badly) while bungling several names and titles. Classy, as ever.
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- 4/26/2011
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
The popularity of a documentary film is often based on word-of-mouth. Very few docs get a wide release (or a theatrical release at all, for that matter) or receive much press. Unless it’s the latest Michael Moore film, a massive advocacy film aiming for Oscar recognition or a mass-market oddity like Supersize Me, a documentary is unlikely to get much public attention. Speciality docs about World War 2, boxing, rap feuds etc. will always have a market among people who are interested in those topics. Occasionally, one of them will even transcend its genre and become a broader success, introducing people to a new sub-culture or perspective. Most documentaries, however, get their recognition because people hear about them or see them at festivals and tell others to watch them.
Narrative documentaries, films that tell a first-person story about an individual or event, are even less likely to garner the attention of the public.
Narrative documentaries, films that tell a first-person story about an individual or event, are even less likely to garner the attention of the public.
- 3/28/2011
- by Mike Waldman
- SoundOnSight
The Scorecard Review Movie Awards: Best of the Decade (Almost) – Complete Results
The decade is over (and has been for a year). Now, we finally know what The Scorecard Review readers believe were the best of the best in the Tsr Movie Awards. There were 501 total voters who voted. Yes, I know it’s not technically a decade. We’ve been doing The Scorecard Review Movie Awards for eight years and decided it was time for a “Best of,” hence the “(Almost).”
If there is one thing we learned, it was The Decade of the Ledger, Heath Ledger. Ellen Page, Lord of the Rings, Meryl Streep, Avatar and Leonardo DiCaprio all had their moments as well. I will offer complete commentary on each individual category so stay tuned for that.
Look for The 9th Annual Tsr Movie Awards in February 2011.
Complete coverage and commentary of The Scorecard Review Movie Awards:...
The decade is over (and has been for a year). Now, we finally know what The Scorecard Review readers believe were the best of the best in the Tsr Movie Awards. There were 501 total voters who voted. Yes, I know it’s not technically a decade. We’ve been doing The Scorecard Review Movie Awards for eight years and decided it was time for a “Best of,” hence the “(Almost).”
If there is one thing we learned, it was The Decade of the Ledger, Heath Ledger. Ellen Page, Lord of the Rings, Meryl Streep, Avatar and Leonardo DiCaprio all had their moments as well. I will offer complete commentary on each individual category so stay tuned for that.
Look for The 9th Annual Tsr Movie Awards in February 2011.
Complete coverage and commentary of The Scorecard Review Movie Awards:...
- 1/2/2011
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
This is a great story that I have to share with you today. Film and TV touch the lives of millions of people, but one film has the chance to save lives. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. Directed by Kurt Kuenne. Zachary’s Bill was officially turned into law in Canada on Wednesday.
The film is currenly availble to watch instantly on Netflix. Here is a little background on the the movie. It's filming began as a portrait of Kuenne’s murdered best friend Andrew Bagby so that Bagby’s newborn son, Zachary, can watch it when he’s older. It becomes much more than that though once Zachary’s mom, Shirley Turner, who is also accused of killing Bagby, comes back into the picture.
Shirley Turner was was sent to jail for the murder of Andrew Bagby and is released from jail on bail...
The film is currenly availble to watch instantly on Netflix. Here is a little background on the the movie. It's filming began as a portrait of Kuenne’s murdered best friend Andrew Bagby so that Bagby’s newborn son, Zachary, can watch it when he’s older. It becomes much more than that though once Zachary’s mom, Shirley Turner, who is also accused of killing Bagby, comes back into the picture.
Shirley Turner was was sent to jail for the murder of Andrew Bagby and is released from jail on bail...
- 12/17/2010
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
One of the most gut-wrenching, heart-wrenching and emotional documentaries to be released in past few years is Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. Directed by Kurt Kuenne, the film begins as a portrait of Kuenne's murdered best friend nm2878997 autoAndrew Bagby[/link] so that Bagby's newborn son, Zachary, can watch it when he's older. It becomes much more than that though once Zachary's mom, Shirley Turner, who is also accused of killing Bagby, comes back into the picture. The film's story isn't exactly a secret but on the off chance you haven't it and don't know the story, I won't ruin it above the jump. (It's available on Netflix Watch Instantly [1] and is a must watch.) For anyone who knows the film, though, its legacy now extends beyond the screen. Zachary's Bill was officially made a law in Canada on Wednesday. Explaining what that specifically means gives...
- 12/17/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
The Scorecard Review Movie Awards: Best of the Decade (Almost)
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Best Documentary
Editor’s note: Tsr Movie Awards started in 2002, but the Documentary category wasn’t added until 2006
2006 – An Inconvenient Truth
2006 – Jesus Camp
2007 – No End in Sight
2007 – Sicko
2008 – Man on Wire
2008 – Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About his Father
2009 – The Cove
2009 – Food, Inc.
Every year we select the best in films and let our Tsr fans score each and every one. Now it’s time to look back.
This is just one of 24 categories in The Scorecard Review Movie Awards: Best of the Decade (Almost). The nominations from above are the top two finishers from each year of The Scorecard Review Movie Awards.
Click Here to vote Click Here and “like” The Scorecard Review on Facebook. That way you’ll make sure to get all of the updates and results of Tsr Movie Awards:...
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Best Documentary
Editor’s note: Tsr Movie Awards started in 2002, but the Documentary category wasn’t added until 2006
2006 – An Inconvenient Truth
2006 – Jesus Camp
2007 – No End in Sight
2007 – Sicko
2008 – Man on Wire
2008 – Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About his Father
2009 – The Cove
2009 – Food, Inc.
Every year we select the best in films and let our Tsr fans score each and every one. Now it’s time to look back.
This is just one of 24 categories in The Scorecard Review Movie Awards: Best of the Decade (Almost). The nominations from above are the top two finishers from each year of The Scorecard Review Movie Awards.
Click Here to vote Click Here and “like” The Scorecard Review on Facebook. That way you’ll make sure to get all of the updates and results of Tsr Movie Awards:...
- 11/1/2010
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Believe it or not, Mongrel Media, a Canadian film distributor, puts its products on iTunes. Moreover, as far as I know, downloading a film on iTunes is legal. The following is the list of some films and there are Canadian films among them.
Canadian Feature films:
* Away from Her.
* Breakfast with Scot.
* Cairo Time.
* Growing Op.
* How She Move.
* Love & Savagery.
* Nurse.Fighter.Boy.
* One Week.
Foreign feature films:
* Mary and Max.
* The Narrows (2008).
* Scenes of a Sexual Nature.
* Wendy and Lucy.
Documentaries:
* Big River Man.
* Blood on the Flat Track.
* The Corporation.
* A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.
* Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
* Flow: For Love of Water.
* Garbage Warrior.
Canadian Feature films:
* Away from Her.
* Breakfast with Scot.
* Cairo Time.
* Growing Op.
* How She Move.
* Love & Savagery.
* Nurse.Fighter.Boy.
* One Week.
Foreign feature films:
* Mary and Max.
* The Narrows (2008).
* Scenes of a Sexual Nature.
* Wendy and Lucy.
Documentaries:
* Big River Man.
* Blood on the Flat Track.
* The Corporation.
* A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.
* Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father.
* Flow: For Love of Water.
* Garbage Warrior.
- 2/5/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
It's no secret that Film Junk has a few documentary fans on staff and every year we try and highlight some of the stand out non-fiction films. Although The Cove and Anvil! The Story of Anvil made some appearances on our year end lists -- along with a few others on our end of decade list -- we didn't really get a chance to write up any doc specific lists, so I figured I'd share some of the love The Documentary Blog has been spreading over the past week. Below you'll find my top 10 docs of 2009 followed by my top 50 documentaries of the decade. Also, I put together a collection of some acclaimed non-fiction filmmakers (including Joe Berlinger, Sarah Price and Jeff Feuerzeig among others) who have shared their picks for best of the decade as well! You can check that list out here [1]. Until then, have a look below...
- 1/5/2010
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
No one online knows the world of documentary films as well as the aptly named "The Documentary Blog". It was only appropriate then that Tdb should assemble a list of what they consider to be the best documentary films over the last decade.
Instead of a measly top 10... they give us a top 50.
50. Rize (Lachapelle, 2005) — Trailer
49. The Smashing Machine (Hyams, 2002) — Trailer
48. Lost in La Mancha (Fulton & Pepe, 2002) — Trailer
47. Dig! (Timoner, 2004) — Trailer
46. Protagonist (Yu, 2007) — Trailer
45. Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (Berger & Klores, 2005) — Trailer
44. Bowling for Columbine (Moore, 2002)
43. Rank (Hyams, 2006) — Trailer
42. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005) — Trailer
41. Helvetica (Hustwit, 2007) — Trailer
40. New World Order (Meyer & Neel, 2009) — Trailer
39. Best Worst Movie (Stephenson, 2009) — Trailer
38. The Cove (Psihoyos, 2009) — Trailer
37. Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Schnack, 2006) — Trailer
36. Tyson (Toback, 2008) — Trailer
35. Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Gervasi, 2008) — Trailer
34. When the Levee’s Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Lee, 2006)
33. Bus 174 (Padilha & Lacerda, 2002)
32. God Grew Tired of Us (Quinn & Walker,...
Instead of a measly top 10... they give us a top 50.
50. Rize (Lachapelle, 2005) — Trailer
49. The Smashing Machine (Hyams, 2002) — Trailer
48. Lost in La Mancha (Fulton & Pepe, 2002) — Trailer
47. Dig! (Timoner, 2004) — Trailer
46. Protagonist (Yu, 2007) — Trailer
45. Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (Berger & Klores, 2005) — Trailer
44. Bowling for Columbine (Moore, 2002)
43. Rank (Hyams, 2006) — Trailer
42. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005) — Trailer
41. Helvetica (Hustwit, 2007) — Trailer
40. New World Order (Meyer & Neel, 2009) — Trailer
39. Best Worst Movie (Stephenson, 2009) — Trailer
38. The Cove (Psihoyos, 2009) — Trailer
37. Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Schnack, 2006) — Trailer
36. Tyson (Toback, 2008) — Trailer
35. Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Gervasi, 2008) — Trailer
34. When the Levee’s Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Lee, 2006)
33. Bus 174 (Padilha & Lacerda, 2002)
32. God Grew Tired of Us (Quinn & Walker,...
- 1/5/2010
- by John Campea
- AMC - Script to Screen
Sundance isn't the only festival in Park City, Utah that brings in the audiences every January. There's also Slamdance, the small fest "by the filmmakers, for the filmmakers," for first-time feature directors making the most of limited budgets. It's full of a lot of fun indie entertainment, and some great documentaries like 2008's Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father. As Variety reports, this year there are ten narrative and eight documentary features, which will run from January 21-28.
This year has the usual new filmmakers, plus an added bonus of premiering Steven Soderbergh's And Everything Is Going Fine. On top of that, the director will participate in their new Filmmaker Summit inviting "all filmmakers, both in Park City and virtually, to collectively craft a new charter for filmmaking, storytelling and content distribution, with and by the global filmmaking community."
But the big news is the list of films.
This year has the usual new filmmakers, plus an added bonus of premiering Steven Soderbergh's And Everything Is Going Fine. On top of that, the director will participate in their new Filmmaker Summit inviting "all filmmakers, both in Park City and virtually, to collectively craft a new charter for filmmaking, storytelling and content distribution, with and by the global filmmaking community."
But the big news is the list of films.
- 12/10/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Director Kurt Kuenne With Zachary Bagby In Kuenne's Dear Zachary: A Letter To A Son About His Father. Courtesy Oscilloscope Pictures & MSNBC Films. Since he was a boy, making films has been at the very center of Kurt Kuenne's life. He fell in love with the movies as a kid growing up in Silicon Valley in Southern California, and already at the age of seven began trying to emulate his heroes by shooting films on Super 8 and then later VHS cameras, using friends and family as actors. Kuenne studied film at USC's prestigious School of Cinema-Television (where he won the Harold Lloyd Scholarship in Film Editing), and there wrote and directed the short Remembrances (1995), which drew praise from Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis. After...
- 11/12/2008
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Oscilloscope Pictures has acquired North American rights to director Kurt Kuenne's "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father," which played at Slamdance and the SXSW Film Festival.
The documentary examines the murder of Kuenne's oldest friend and its legal and emotional consquences.
Oscilloscope will release the film theatrically in partnership with newly formed MSNBC Films on Oct. 31 in New York.
The deal was finalized during the recent Toronto International Film Festival by Josh Braun of Submarine on behalf of the filmmaker and MSNBC Films and by David Fenkel for Oscilloscope.
The documentary examines the murder of Kuenne's oldest friend and its legal and emotional consquences.
Oscilloscope will release the film theatrically in partnership with newly formed MSNBC Films on Oct. 31 in New York.
The deal was finalized during the recent Toronto International Film Festival by Josh Braun of Submarine on behalf of the filmmaker and MSNBC Films and by David Fenkel for Oscilloscope.
- 9/18/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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