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An engrossing documentary follows two friends as they soar and crash with the dot-com wave.
By Jeff Stark
May 11, 2001
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Filmmakers Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim talk about their unblinking look at ill-fated GovWorks.com.
By Jeff Stark
May 11, 2001
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The Sex Pistols couldn't find enough treasure in their vaults. Plus: A second documentary that doesn't reduce punk to a slogan.
By Jeff Stark
April 26, 2001
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Chris Smith's film about a horror auteur with a dream would have made a great mockumentary, if only it weren't all true.
By Jeff Stark
April 19, 2001
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Agnès Varda's new film is part documentary, part personal reflection -- and a celebratory jig to squeezing every last drop out of life.
By Stephanie Zacharek
March 8, 2001
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Does it take marching bands and a live tiger to get a distribution deal at Sundance?
By Alan Deutschman
January 31, 2001
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A struggling comedian takes on the beauty elite with an exhaustive, lifelong program of "approaching" (please don't call it "accosting") models and actresses on the street.
By Virginia Vitzthum
November 21, 2000
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The great ballplayer was one of the "chosen people" -- in more ways than one -- but hero worship can have its drawbacks.
By King Kaufman
October 31, 2000
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With the media liberated from Milosevic's control, the nation begins to face its demons -- but propagandists and journalists are in a tug of war.
By Laura Rozen
October 31, 2000
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How a free Rolling Stones concert turned into a colossal mass bad trip -- and spawned the most harrowing rock 'n' roll movie ever made.
By Michael Sragow
August 10, 2000
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The FBI's chief negotiator during the Waco siege says critics and conspiracy theorists are sowing dangerous discord.
By Daryl Lindsey
August 4, 2000
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A recently released documentary stars Rosebudd, a 47-year-old exemplar of the genre who tells it like it is.
By Stephen Lemons
July 26, 2000
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Wim Wenders gave the world an affecting documentary about terrific musicians. Now if he'd only stop talking.
By Jeff Stark
June 22, 2000
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The tale behind the Oscar-nominated documentary is as extraordinary as the Tuvan throat-singers it celebrates.
By Jennifer New
March 22, 2000
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The Everest expedition that triumphantly discovered George Mallory's body wasn't supposed to end like this -- in contradictory accounts and bitter countercharges.
By Pat Joseph
January 15, 2000
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Scary movie director and "American Movie" star Mark Borchardt talks about living the examined life.
By Dakota Smith
November 2, 1999
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"Gummo" moviemaker Harmony Korine is not independent film's bastard child after all.
By Andy Battaglia
September 28, 1999
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At Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, athletes fight for much more than Golden Gloves titles.
By Charles Taylor
September 21, 1999
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself -- and fear, it turns out, is scarier than hell.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
July 13, 1999
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Art Arfons broke land speed records for two decades before a monstrous car crash sent him back to his workshop. "The Green Monster," Tuesday night on PBS, tells his amazing story.
By Jeff Stark
June 29, 1999
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Documentary filmmakers Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir talk about the story behind "The Brandon Teena Story."
By Jennie Yabroff
February 26, 1999
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Single white filmmaker Myles Berkowitz took a camera crew along on "20 Dates" and found Ms. Right -- not to mention a distribution deal.
By Larry Getlen
February 19, 1999
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The directors of "Divorce Iranian Style" speak out about unhappy marriages, Islamic law and the rights of women.
By Cynthia Joyce
December 16, 1998
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Why, when it comes to romance, do we treat each other so badly? Laura Miller reviews two new movies which investigate that question
By Laura Miller
August 21, 1998
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As the recent
efforts of Woody Allen and Kevin Bacon show, playing at being a musician is
an actor's most challenging role
By Sarah Vowell
May 1, 1998
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