‘Apollo 11’ Trailer: The Moon Landing Documentary Critics Call ‘Astonishing’
Even though Damien Chazelle’s “First Man” didn’t impress Oscar voters, it reignited a sense of wonder in cinephiles, reminding viewers of the sheer magnitude of the incredible moment in 1969 when Neil...
View ArticleCritics Survey: Sundance 2019’s Best Movies According to 102 Film Journalists
Sometimes, the jury gets it wrong: Lulu Wang’s “The Farewell” didn’t win any prizes at the end of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, but critics had other ideas. The writer-director’s second feature...
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‘Apollo 11’ Soars in IMAX, ‘Climax’ and ‘Transit’ Sustain Foreign-Language Trend
As a handful of Oscar-winners rode a post-Oscar burst, a surge of new movies added vitality to the specialty market, filling the box-office void as award players ebb away. Best among these was “Apollo...
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Julianne Moore Remake ‘Gloria Bell’ Launches as Space Saga ‘Apollo 11’ Soars
Fresh product is invigorating the post-awards season. Julianne Moore in “Gloria Bell,” Sebastián Lelio’s Los Angeles redo of his Chilean success “Gloria,” led the field with a strong two-city start....
View ArticleMoon Landing at 50: 10 Space Documentaries Commemorating The Mission’s...
Armchair astronomers will have no shortage of options this month, as every network seems to be sprinting to cover the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. From archival footage to new interviews,...
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‘From the Earth to the Moon’ Is an Epic Miniseries of the Past, and What’s...
When “From the Earth to the Moon” premiered in April 1998, it was a big deal for HBO. Still two months away from debuting “Sex and the City” and eight months out from “The Sopranos,” what was then...
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Documentaries Are Now the Art-House Lifeline, But Even the Best See Limited...
Covering specialized box office has largely come to mean covering documentaries. They’re no longer a subset; these films are the top performers for art-house theaters. But as distributors begin the...
View ArticleHow the ‘Apollo 11’ Filmmakers Spooled More Than 11,000 Hours of Audio and...
Any moon-landing conspiracy theorist who sees director Todd Douglas Miller’s mesmerizing documentary “Apollo 11,” which captures the 1969 lunar adventure of astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong,...
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Box-Office Hits ‘Biggest Little Farm’ and ‘Apollo 11′ Top Critics’ Choice...
Leading this year’s batch of Critics Choice Association nominees for the fourth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards are two Neon box-office hits, “The Biggest Little Farm” with seven nominations...
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Cinema Eye Honors 2020 Documentary Nominations Lead by ‘American Factory’ and...
Each year for over a decade, the Cinema Eye Honors selection committees, comprised of filmmakers from the documentary community, help to whittle down an increasingly overwhelming list of must-see...
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Academy Documentary Branch Faces Daunting 159 Non-Fiction Feature Oscar...
Two years ago, the Academy documentary branch had to grapple with a record 170 documentary feature submissions for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar. This year, it’s not so bad: only 159 were entered....
View Article‘American Factory’ Wins Top Award at Cinema Eye Documentary Awards
“American Factory” won the top award at the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking Monday night, and directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert were also honored for Outstanding Direction, for...
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