Documentaries that don’t suck! An interview with AJ Schnack, founder of new doc award the Cinema Eye Honors. Plus an interview with Cinema Eye winning director Jason Kohn of MANDA BALA.
FilmCouch 63 [30:24m]:
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The new alternative documentary awards launch tonight at the IFC Center. I’ll be there, reporting back in 140-character segments.
February 25, 2008 – 11:43 am
It’s gonna be like if CATCHER IN THE RYE was a ride at Disneyland! No, I don’t do enough drugs to know why that would be desirable, either.
February 8, 2008 – 11:44 am
AJ Schnack has some notes on the lineup for the 2008 True/False Film Festival, which I’m super excited to be attending for the first time this year. While the line-up features several holdovers from previous festivals (including Sundance hits American Teen and The Order of Myths, and Cat Dancers and Audience of One, both of [...]
January 20, 2008 – 10:31 pm
At a reception here in Park City on Sunday afternoon, filmmakers AJ Schnack and Margaret Brown were joined by Indiepix’s Danielle DiGiacomo and the Toronto Film Festival’s Thom Powers to announce the nominees for a new batch of awards honoring excellence in non-fiction filmmaking: the Cinema Eyes. Schnack, who previously announced the formation of the [...]
January 7, 2008 – 3:15 pm
An email from AJ Schnack reveals that he, in partnership with the Toronto Film Festival’s Thom Powers and Indiepix.net, are launching a new range of awards for “excellence in non-fiction filmmaking.”
Prompted in part by general disappointment in the doc community over the Oscar shortlist, a panel of twelve film festival directors have produced a short [...]
October 5, 2007 – 7:08 am
A new doc about Kurt Cobain redeems years of shoddy journalism about our cultural icon. A self-indulgent Hurricane Katrina film pricks a nerve in Karina Longworth.
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October 3, 2007 – 8:07 am
Forget about Manohla’s pan (seriously: has she just been watching too much Behind the Music?): go read this story on AJ Schnack’s Kurt Cobain: About a Son in the Village Voice, and then, if you have the means, go see the film tonight in New York or this weekend in L.A. To quote the inimitable [...]
August 20, 2007 – 6:50 am
Last week, we made a guess as to why none of Kurt Cobain’s music appears in A.J. Schnack’s Cobain doc. The director wrote in to set us straight.
