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Meet ‘Marc by Sofia’

March 29, 2026March 29, 2026 Laura Pruden 0 Comments Blondie, Bob Fosse, Cabaret, Chad Sipkin, Courtney Love, Elizabeth Taylor, Hello Dolly, Karol Armitage, Lil' Kim, Louis Vuitton, Marc by Sofia, Marc Jacobs, Pharrell Williams, Robert Therrien, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sofia Coppola, Sonic Youth, Sweet Charity, Takashi Murakami, The Strokes, Winona Ryder, Yves Saint Laurent

A film portrait that feels like a gushing cocktail party intro

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‘The A.I. Doc’ Explores the Perils and the Promise of AI

March 27, 2026March 31, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments

Doomers and believers all have their say in this timely documentary

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Guys Like Us, Baby We Were ‘Born to Bowl’

March 25, 2026March 30, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments A24, A24 television, Americana, Anthony Simonsen, Ben Stiller, blue collar America, Born to Bowl, bowling, Brian Lazarte, Cameron Crowe (bowler), Chicago, documentary series, E.J. Tackett, Hard Knocks, HBO, HBO documentaries, James Lee Hernandez, Jason Belmonte, Kyle Troup, Liev Schreiber, McMillion$, niche sports, professional bowling, Red Hour Films, sports documentary, underdog sports, White Sox, working class stories

A Ben Stiller produced documentary series follows a bunch of pro-bowlers

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Why ‘The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ is More Moving Than You’d Expect

March 24, 2026March 26, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980s music, addie brik, alternative rock history, anthem band, anthony kiedis, artist friendships, band brotherhood, band origin stories, ben feldman, biographical documentaries, drug culture in music, fairfax high school, flea, founding members rhcp, freaky styley, funk rock, gary allen performance artist, George Clinton, grandmaster flash the message, hillel slovak, jack irons, los angeles music scene, music biopics, music documentaries, music history documentaries, Netflix documentaries, red hot chili peppers, rock band documentaries, rock documentaries, rock nostalgia, what is this band

Friendship, fame, and fatality are part of the band’s origin story

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After The Beatles, Paul McCartney Scrambled To Get Wings Soaring

March 1, 2026March 3, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments Man on the Run, Morgan Neville, music documentaries, Paul McCartney, rock history, The Beatles, Wings

New documentary shows the songster’s rocky road from the Fab Four

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PBS Gets Hip: Space Jazz Arrives on American Masters

February 24, 2026March 2, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments Afrofuturism, American Masters, avant-garde music, jazz documentaries, jazz history, PBS, Sun Ra

Is Public Television ready for Sun Ra?

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Is the New Billy Idol Doc a Cautionary Tale or Rock Star 101?

February 22, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments Bathory, Billy Idol, Billy Idol Should Be Dead, Britpunk, Jonas Åkerlund, MTV era

‘Billy Idol Should be Dead’ shows the dark side of the ’80s

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‘An American Pastoral’ Puts A Human Face on Democracy

February 13, 2026February 24, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments An American Pastoral, Auberi Edler, Elizabethtown, James C. Emery, Kristy Moore, Tina M. Wilson

Auberi Edler’s documentary about a rural Pennsylvanian school board election shines a sad, funny, light on American society

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Melania: Trump of the Will

January 31, 2026February 9, 2026 Gordon Haber 3 Comments Alex Pretti, Aviva Siegel, Boney M, Brett Ratner, Brett Ratner scandal, Brigitte Macron, Britney Spears jacket controversy, Donald Trump, Donald Trump family, Donald Trump vanity projects, Escalade imagery, fact checking politics, fascist aesthetics, First Lady branding, First Lady documentary, Gimme Shelter, ICE agents, immigration hypocrisy, Jeff Bezos, Jimmy Carter funeral, Jordan, Mar a Lago, Melania documentary, Melania Trump, Melania Trump documentary, Michael Jackson jacket parallel, Minneapolis shooting, Queen Rania of Jordan, Rolling Stones, Trump corruption, Trump vanity projects

Does this vanity project have any merit?

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Back in the U.S.S.R.

January 23, 2026January 24, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments 1980s, Alex Garland, Apted, Beatles, Boris Grebenshchikov, Coal Miner's Daughter, Cold War, Dave Stewart, documentary, Glasnost, Gorillas in the Mist, Leningrad, Long Way Home, Michael Apted, MOMA, Music Documentary, Perestroika, rock history, Russia, Soviet Union, The Long Way Home, The World Is Not Enough, Ukraine War, Voice of America

Rock and rolling back the years with Boris Grebenshchikov

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The End of a Neighborhood Restaurant Feels Like a Divorce

January 6, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Business Breakups, Creative Partnerships, Food and Film, Independent Documentaries, Israeli Cinema, Orna and Ella, Restaurant Culture, Tel Aviv, Tomer Heymann, Women Entrepreneurs

‘Orna and Ella’ is personal, for documentarian Tomer Heymann

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‘The New Yorker at 100’ Is a Love Letter — and a Gentle Evasion

December 18, 2025January 2, 2026 Samuel Porteous 2 Comments Condé Nast, David Remnick, E B White, Eustace Tilley, fact checking, Harold Ross, Judd Apatow, longform journalism, Marshall Curry, media history, Netflix documentaries, Pauline Kael, Ronan Farrow, Roz Chast, The New Yorker, The New Yorker at 100, Tina Brown, William Shawn

Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow enjoy the periodical without too much rigor

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The Biggest Penis in Porn Is Back From the Dead

December 12, 2025December 12, 2025 William Schwartz 1 Comment 1970s cinema, 1980s cinema, adult film industry, American subcultures, Censorship, cultural memory, documentary film, film criticism, film history, John C Holmes, Johnny Wadd, Linda Lovelace, media studies, Pornography, sex and culture, sexual politics, true crime adjacent

Famous as Johnny Wadd, John C. Holmes was weirder than any of his characters

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DOC NYC Delivers the Weird, the Wild, and the Profound

November 25, 2025 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments DOC NYC, documentaries, documentary film, Film festival, Kings of Venice, nonfiction cinema, Nuns vs the Vatican, Santacon, Seth Porges, The Balloonists, The Big Cheese, Whistle documentary

From Cancer Alley and sun-soaked Venice Beach to the dark heart of the Catholic Church, docs turn obsessions into big-hearted human stories

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The Truth Is Imminent

November 23, 2025November 27, 2025 Jamie Mason 0 Comments documentary, Jay Stratton, Luis Elizondo, Marco Rubio, Prime Video, uap, ufo

UFO mythology meets congressional reality in ‘The Age of Disclosure’

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