Kartemquin Films
+Movies | 33 days ago

What the Doc Is Going On With the Academy’s New Rule Changes?

By Gilbert Cruz

This year's documentary category left out Steve James' masterful The Interrupters. Will new rules prevent such a thing from happening in the future?

+Q&A | 95 days ago

Werner Herzog Does Not Conduct Interviews. He Has Conversations

By Gilbert Cruz
Sebastien Nogier / AFP / Getty Images

“I know the heart of men,” says the director about his new death row documentary, Into the Abyss.

+Photos Music | 132 days ago

When We Was Fab: George Harrison

By TIME PHOTO DEPT.
Terry O'Neill / Getty Images

George Harrison died ten years ago today. TIME takes a look at the quiet, peaceful Beatle.

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 251 days ago

The Morning After: Finding Bobby Fischer

By James Poniewozik

There are many different roles chess has played in popular culture: source of excitement, metaphor for conflict, cause of (or at least form of expression for) madness (e.g., Nabokov’s The Defense). Last night’s HBO documentary, Bobby Fischer Against the World, involved all of those, and was both an empathetic biography and fascinating history of a [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 322 days ago

Ken Burns Going Back to War, This Time in Vietnam

By James Poniewozik

When he was making the rounds for his World War II documentary in 2007, Ken Burns told me (and other reporters) that he had finally decided to make a film about Vietnam too. Here’s what he said at the time: Not today, but–there was a point where, with the same vehemence of conviction that I [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | 871 days ago

TV Weekend: Ken Burns' National Parks

By James Poniewozik

Ken Burns’ The National Parks: America’s Best Idea begins its nightly run (twelve hours, in six parts) on PBS Sunday night. Last week, I wrote a column about how its premise—that Big Government saved wilderness and national treasures that private enterprise would have destroyed—is a lot more politically pointed (in the year of the Tea [...]

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Tuned In+1082 days ago

TV Tonight: Black (or Not) Like She

By James Poniewozik

  Yesterday I used the Bobby-Jindal-is-Kenneth-the-page meme to go on a tangent about actors playing outside their ethnicity, in particular on shows like Saturday Night Live. “It’s not generally white European Americans who get substituted for,” I wrote, “though there had to have been good black George W. Bushes out there.”    Tonight, HBO airs The [...]