There is a potency and pungency to this brief, absorbing documentary about a part of Middle East history that is often passed over: the Jews of Iraq.
(Scott) 'The Beat Hotel' (No rating, 1 28) A cheap Paris hotel and its artistic clientele — including Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso — form the subject of Alan Govenar's genial documentary about a key part of Beat history.
Be sure to check out our documentary about Rojas as part VICE's OUTSIDER series uncovering the singular minds behind the world's strangest movies.
The film, which reopened in 10 cities on May 11 after a one-week New York release in December to qualify for year-end awards, is part concert and part documentary about a group of Latin musicians, including Gato Barbieri, Paquito D'Rivera and, in his last screen performance, Tito Puente.
If that's all the reading you can handle today, you should watch part one of our three part documentary about how Pablo Escobar's legacy of violence drives today's drug wars.
However, in 1995 he was approached by BBC radio producer Paul Quinn with an idea for creating a drama-documentary about the character as part of a season of BBC radio programming looking back at the 1950s.
Stewart had just written and presented a BBC documentary about Lawrence, filmed, in part, in Syria and Iraq.
"Mars," in a format that combines fact and fiction, is part documentary about the real-life preparatory efforts happening now, including Elon Musk's SpaceX venture and the astronaut Scott Kelly's yearlong stay at the International Space Station, and part narrative drama, set in 2033, about the first manned trip, with an international crew.
The last line of Pauline Kael's review of the film in this magazine (cited in Robert Weide's "American Masters" documentary about Allen, the second part of which airs tonight on PBS) is: "If Woody Allen finds success very upsetting and wishes the public would go away, this picture should help him stop worrying".
"This looks good — a ninety-six-part documentary about everything".
