Tag Archives: Documentary

Sixteen years after his documentary When Louis Met Jimmy, Theroux seeks to understand how he was tricked by a man who became his friend Director : Arthur Cary Cast : Louis Theroux Genre : Documentary Release Date : 10/2/2016 Country : United Kingdom

Filmmaker Martin Bell chronicles the life of Erin Blackwell, mother of 10 children, from the time she was a 14-year-old prostitute through her battle with drug addiction, poverty and parenting. Director : Martin Bell Cast : Erin Blackwell Genre : Documentary Release Date : 5/29/2016 Country : United States

We Make Couples is a master documentary maker’s six-years-in-the-making Marxist love story. Crammed full of thoughts on cinema, politics and the pleasures and costs of our collective stabs at happiness, it’s a powerful film challenging us to ask whether ‘the couple’ could also be a form of resistance. – IFFR Director : Mike Hoolboom CastContinue reading “We Make Couples – 2016”

A documentary about the story of Mario de Marcella, a hermit that lived in the woods near Rome. He was called by hunters “Il Solengo” because that’s how they call the lone boar that is cut off from the rest of the pack. Director : Alessio Rigo de Righi|Matteo Zoppis Cast : Genre : DocumentaryContinue reading “Il Solengo – 2016”

REAL BOY is the coming-of-age story of Bennett Wallace, a transgender teenager on a journey to find his voice-as a musician, a friend, a son, and a man. As he navigates the ups and downs of young adulthood, Bennett works to gain the love and support of his mother, who has deep misgivings about herContinue reading “Real Boy – 2016”

Nude men in rubber suits, close-ups of erections, objects shoved in the most intimate of places—these are photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe, known by many as the most controversial photographer of the twentieth century. Openly gay, Mapplethorpe took images of male sex, nudity, and fetish to extremes that resulted in his work still being labelledContinue reading “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures – 2016”

“Sticky” is everything your mother was too embarrassed to tell you about masturbation, in one stimulating documentary. Full of candid interviews from celebrated figures to everyday people, health care professionals, sex therapists, zoologists, anthropologists, and religious figures, this feature length doc answers age-old questions like: What is masturbation? Will it make me go blind? IsContinue reading “Sticky: A (Self) Love Story – 2016”

The Great Sasuke chronicles a-year-in-the-life of an aging Japanese professional wrestler and politician who once enjoyed a great fame. Reflecting on his 20 turbulent years as a wrestler, Sasuke decides to climb back into both arenas — wrestling and politics — for a final battle royale. Director : Mikiko Sasaki Cast : Haruo Murata|Kensuke Shinzaki|MasanoriContinue reading “The Great Sasuke – 2016”