(Scott) ★ 'The Gatekeepers' (PG-13, 1 37) Not recommended for anyone clinging to optimism about the Middle East, this documentary, consisting of interviews with six former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency, is a devastating and informative anatomy of politics, terrorism and the post-1967 collisions between Zionism and Palestinian nationalism.
Made with senior Tibetan monk Jigme Gyatso, the documentary consists of interviews with ordinary Tibetan people discussing the 14th Dalai Lama, the Chinese government, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Han Chinese migrants to the region.
This 90-minute documentary consists entirely of mesmerizing interviews with Traudl Junge (TROW-dle YUNG-uh) one of Hitler's private secretaries, the one to whom he dictated his last will.
The hourlong documentary consists of interviews with the boys and their wives, children and parents, supplemented by still images and old film clips.
"Power and Terror," John Junkerman's new documentary, consists of excerpts from several lectures given by Noam Chomsky last spring, interspersed with an interview in which Mr. Chomsky, the M.I.T. linguist and longtime critic of American foreign policy, reflects on the current state of the world.
The documentary consists of eight chapters, each covering a portion of the film-making – or in the case of the final chapter, the film's controversial legacy.
By Richard Brody January 19 , 2018Dimitrii Kalashnikov's documentary, consisting of video footage pulled from the Internet, sensationalizes the very violence it perhaps hoped to decry.
"Sobibor," which will be shown Thursday at 6 p.m. in the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center and is to open on Friday at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, is, in a sense, a footnote to "Shoah," Mr. Lanzmann's masterly 1985 documentary consisting of interviews with Holocaust survivors.
The documentary, consisting of two men talking, inspired by My Dinner with Andre, may still not sit well with viewers unnerved by the famed director's transgressions, but this memoir also goes into his stellar career and the more horrific aspects of his life, deftly melding his memories with archival footage.
Holding the mirror up to nature under such circumstances is not easy, and this is particularly so in Friendly's case, because most of his documentaries consist in large measure of interviews.
