PALM SPRINGS, Calif.—Editing a manuscript might not be the most cinematic endeavors about which to make a documentary—unless the parties in question are Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb. For a half-century, Gottlieb has edited Caro’s work, including the not-yet-completed final volume of Caro’s definitive biography of Lyndon Johnson. “Turn Every Page — The Adventures of Robert Caro and

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.—Trees may be alive, but they certainly aren’t sentient enough to distinguish one race of people from another. Humans, however, are—and in Palm Springs a specific group of trees was effectively weaponized as a means of separating a historically Black community from the rest of this desert enclave 100 miles east of Hollywood.

The new documentary

The documentary filmmaker brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet know something of capturing trauma on film. On September 11th, 2001, they were embedded with a New York Fire Department unit when the first plane struck the World Trade Center, capturing the only known footage of that initial horror. Their resulting film, “9/11,” provides a firsthand account of the heroism of the firefighters who ran to the inferno and is capped by a tearful

Nobody said it was easy. Being a film critic in the year 2022 was certainly difficult, as this year goes down in the history books as one of the worst I’ve ever seen.

2022 saw one of the most lackluster of all Sundance Festivals (although I found a few gems), David O. Russell made his only bad film (“Amsterdam”) and the public turned their backs on directors such as Steven Spielberg

The documentary film “Dreams’ Gate” (“Darvazeye royaha” in the original [...]

“Blanquita,” Chile’s Official Oscar entry for 2022 for International Best [...]

Kino Lorber announced the U.S. theatrical release of “Utama,” the [...]