You Can Dance If You Want To
Cunningham by Hope Madden “The audience was puzzled.” Such was modern dance legend Marce Cunningham’s wry, almost tickled description of one reaction to a performance. An enigmatic presence on and…read more →
documentary
Sleepless in Mexico City
Midnight Family by Hope Madden For a population of 9 million, Mexico City keeps only 45 official ambulances. Private ambulances compete with each other to fill the need for additional…read more →
Tusk
When Lambs Become Lions by Rachel Willis In examining the world of poaching, director Jon Kasbe has crafted a very personal story with his documentary, When Lambs Become Lions. At…read more →
Diamonds in the Soles
The Kingmaker by Hope Madden Is there anything more dangerous than a sense of entitlement? This belief in being owed something unearned—a theme that’s played in a number of filmmaker…read more →
Insidious
Where’s My Roy Cohn? by Hope Madden There’s a tendency in horror cinema, after a villain has established his evil nature in a film or two, to turn the story…read more →
Punk History
Desolation Center by Rachel Willis Director Stuart Swezey has a personal interest in telling the story of Desolation Center and the five truly unique events they coordinated in the mid-1980s.…read more →
…And Let’s Give It Acid Blood!
Memory: The Origins of Alien by Hope Madden “The reek of human blood smiles out at me.” It’s an unusual opening line for a documentary about that icon of SciFi…read more →
Queen Bee
Honeyland by Hope Madden Cinematic in structure, narrative in its storytelling, all of it expressed with a visual flair that give it the sense of poetry—Honeyland is no ordinary documentary.…read more →
Dearly Beloved
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am by Hope Madden Before Toni Morrison was old enough to understand the F-word her mother had her washing off the sidewalk, she understood the…read more →
Run Through It
The River and the Wall by Rachel Willis Director Ben Masters has an interest in the land along the Rio Grande. In making The River and the Wall, he hopes…read more →