The festival opened last night with Ava DuVernay's powerfully and passionately insightful documentary "13th," a brilliant analysis of the historical roots of the politics behind today's scourge of mass incarceration.
This moment of confounded possibilities lies at the heart of "Promises," an intensely personal and insightful documentary that looks at the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from the vantage point of seven children living in or near Jerusalem.
As his daughter, Maud, recounts in her atmospheric and insightful documentary portrait of Linder, "The Man in the Silk Hat," from 1983 (screening Dec. 17), he was credited as the "auteur" of these films — likely, she says, the first application of that term to a filmmaker.
"She's a very strong woman, I'm a very weak man…" Filmed over a period of five years, this intimate and insightful documentary perfectly balances the personal and the political, telling its tale of national and international upheavals through their impact on individuals at the cutting edge of change.
To top it all off, he ends the movie with a rousing version of the socialist anthem, "The Internationale".The leading capitalists of the past 30 years, and especially in the run-up to the recent crisis, should probably be grateful for Mr Moore's lack of seriousness, because the movie contains plenty of moments that could have been used to make a genuinely insightful documentary.
I'm told that the last time we received such a high level of correspondence was after the broadcast of Grave Digging Live: In Search of Diana – but on this occasion, instead of insightful documentary-making ruffling the feathers of the botched and the bungled, it was a harmless piece of writing in Auto Trader's not-for-profit sister title, the Guardian, that set the cat amongst the pigeons.
The result is what critics are calling an "insightful" documentary, which has been scooping up awards at North American film festivals and will appear in U.S. theaters this summer.
The City Dark is an insightful documentary about light pollution and the consequences of a rapidly disappearing night sky.
