Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2024

Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There's his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapter as a banjo...

Tuesday, Mar. 14, 2023

David Letterman joins Bono and The Edge in a new streaming documentary about U2 and one obvious question soon jumps out: What exactly is David Letterman doing here?

The droll, bushy-bearded American comedian is an odd choice to be master of ceremonies for this Disney+ project, unbalancing...

Monday, Jun. 14, 2021

When the filmmaker Morgan Neville began making a documentary on Anthony Bourdain, the late chef and globe-trotting television host, one of the first things he did was comb through every song Bourdain had ever referenced. He came up with a playlist 18½ hours long and called it "Tony." 

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Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018

Director Morgan Neville’s Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Focus Features) won the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Documentary this evening (11/10) during a gala ceremony hosted by Bill Nye at BRIC in Brooklyn. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? not only won the 3rd annual competition’s top...

Wednesday, Jun. 27, 2018

Escapism is usually the domain of big-budget spectacles, but a pair of blockbuster documentaries has caught on at the summer box office partly because they're a respite from today's headlines.

The Fred Rogers documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor" and the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader...

Monday, Jun. 25, 2018

Morgan Neville is a lauded filmmaker whose 20 Feet From Stardom won the Best Feature Documentary Oscar in 2014 and the Best Music Film Grammy the following year, among assorted other honors. 20 Feet was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Grand Jury Prize, as...

Wednesday, Jun. 6, 2018

So accustomed are we to the downfall and disgrace of men that a marvelous sense of its absence propels the rich and glowing documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" Fifty years after he made his public television debut, Fred Rogers remains aloft: a pure and gentle soul never befallen by scandal,...

Wednesday, Mar. 22, 2017

Director Morgan Neville--whose Twenty Feet From Stardom won the Best Feature Documentary Oscar in 2014 and then the Best Music Film Grammy the following year, among other assorted honors--has formally joined global production studio RadicalMedia for commercial representation in North...

Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015

Six television programs from around the globe comprise the inaugural lineup for Primetime, a new program at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival. The section presents the best in international television on the big screen, channeling the powerful, small-...

Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015

The Toronto International Film Festival’s 2015 documentary program presents a lineup that includes revelatory looks at celebrated performers like Yo-Yo Ma, Arcade Fire and Sharon Jones; fresh global perspectives on Ukraine, Haiti, China, and the Middle East; films...

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