Documentaries

"Objectified" "Objectified"

Gary Hustwit's documentary isn't just about industrial design. It's about the way everyday objects can take on powerful meaning.
  • Roundup: Movies not to miss

    Which is worse: The Lyme disease coverup, the devastation of global fisheries or undead Nazis in Norway?
  • Behind the food industry's iron curtain

    Michael Pollan and director Robert Kenner talk about "Food, Inc.," the movie agribusiness doesn't want you to see.
  • Movies not to miss: "Unmistaken Child"

    A heartbroken monk looks for his lost master among 2-year-olds. Plus: Bisexuality, rediscovered yet again!
  • Interview with Kirby Dick

    The filmmaker talks about his latest documentary and why politicians should get out of the closet.
  • Tribeca: Best of the fest

    An Irish horror-romance-farce, an Iranian take on "L'Avventura," a gritty lesbian thriller, a black-and-white jazz musical -- and go-kart racing.
  • How to make a film about Rachel Corrie

    Andrew O'Hehir interviews documentary filmmaker Simone Bitton about her latest project.
  • The great foreskin debate

    To snip or not to snip? That was the question facing new parent Danae Elon, who didn't just wrestle with the controversies of circumcision -- she made a documentary about it.
  • Mike Tyson: Broke, wounded and misunderstood

    Are you ready to feel nostalgic about the most notorious ex-heavyweight champ and convicted rapist of the '90s? Hollywood maverick James Toback sure hopes so.
  • Handicapping Manhattan's spring movie fling

    Newly downsized and shorn of Hollywood glitz, Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival remains a vigorous venue for cinematic discoveries.
  • "Earth"

    The world is a beautiful place -- so stop screwing it up! Disney's lush nature documentary follows three animal families struggling to survive on a planet changing all too rapidly.
  • Roundup: Movies not to miss

    Go behind "A Chorus Line" with a riveting backstage doc; the amazing Hiam Abbass in "Lemon Tree"; and the greatest documentarian you've never heard of.
  • Indie roundup: Movies not to miss

    The demigods of Canadian metal face twilight in "Anvil!"; a hoax memoir, not quite deconstructed; and a graceful fable from Iran.
  • Weekend roundup: Movies not to miss

    A funky, lovely weave of Philly tales; an S/M hustler turned safe-sex pioneer; a heavy-metal saga in Old Norse; a Denver slacker turns to crime, and more.
  • Weekend roundup: Movies not to miss

    A horror auteur finds his ultimate monster -- the Japanese economy! Plus: Micro-indie legend Joe Swanberg's latest; the joyous "Carmen & Geoffrey."
  • "American Idol," post-Heidegger edition

    From Cornel West in the back seat to Slavoj Zizek at the dump, "Examined Life" offers quick, witty, out-of-context doses of today's leading philosophers.
  • From New Orleans to Antarctica, via the twin towers

    An Oscar rarity -- at least three of the nominated documentaries are outstanding and deserve to win! Can the Academy find a way to snub them all?
  • Watching Republicans grieve

    Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi journeyed into the heart of the GOP for her new HBO documentary. She discusses what she found there: Denial, depression and a whole lot of anger.
  • Weekend roundup: Movies not to miss

    A tender porn-theater family saga, with boils; a sexy ghost story from Macedonia; Al Pacino's junkie breakthrough; and the story of World War II heroine Hannah Senesh.
  • Ted Haggard in exile

    An HBO documentary about the former pastor underscores the horrors of the evangelical Christian closet, just as new allegations about him emerge.
  • Chris Rock's good hair day

    The comedian talks about why African-Americans spend so much money on their hair, the political ramifications of the weave, and his new documentary.
  • Does the devil really wear Prada?

    R.J. Cutler discusses his fascinating documentary "The September Issue," an unvarnished view of Vogue magazine and fashion's ice princess, Anna Wintour.
  • Who killed Flipper?

    The filmmakers behind "The Cove" discuss the shocking Sundance documentary that may forever change how we feel about dolphins in captivity.
  • Your Sundance gigolo report

    Ashton Kutcher sells body but not soul in dark, sexy "Spread"; Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere and Don Cheadle play good-cop, bad-cop; Anna Wintour, human being!
  • Downsizing hits Sundance

    I'm off to the mysteriously non-cold Utah slopes to see Jim Carrey go gay, Ashton Kutcher play a gigolo and Paul Giamatti sell his soul. Did somebody say recession?
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