At this festival, part of Lincoln Center Festival 2002, it provides an intriguing counterpoint to an unusually strong set of documentaries.
Here is a set of documentaries to stream on Netflix for some educational programming in between your "Gilmore Girls" and "Friends" marathons.
The DVD set's "making-of" documentary explains the distinctive frontispiece of the series (wherein Serenity soars over a herd of horses) as Whedon's attempt to capture "everything you need to understand about the series in five seconds".
McCartney and Lennon were drifting apart, and both had antagonised Harrison, who walked off the set of their documentary, Let It Be (relased in 1970), after an argument with McCartney.
A set of short documentary film "webisodes" made for former Sen. John Edwards prior to his presidential candidacy continues to weave a curious web, this time involving the filmmaker.
The Decline of Western Civilization triple set of music documentaries is out now as a DVD and Blu-ray box set.
Wait a few days: Icarus Films is releasing, on Tuesday, "I Am Somebody," a set of three documentaries by Madeline Anderson, including two made for television, and they're of great moment.
"A Better Man" nominally belongs to a certain set of interrogatory documentaries in which an aggressor and a victim convene to reach some sort of breakthrough: the itinerant child who makes peace with the oppressive parent; the career racist who, upon looking into the saucer eyes of the benevolent black man, renounces the activities of his clan.
Outside the multiplex, the fervent environmentalist is also partnering with Netflix on a set of conservation documentaries.
"You do know this is not going to work," Nick Cave incanted daily on the set of their fictionalised documentary about the singer, 20,000 Days on Earth.
