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Eric Hynes

Seeing in the Dark

By Eric Hynes
May 1, 2018
Making something out of nothing, some filmmakers use blank screens to fill our minds

All Things Reconsidered

By Eric Hynes
February 22, 2018
Revisited and reshaped, old footage fuels new reflections in two Sundance documentaries

Sundance Interview: RaMell Ross

By Eric Hynes
February 1, 2018
Lives in full: the filmmaker on his Oscar-nominated documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Review: Loveless

By Eric Hynes
January 3, 2018
(Andrey Zvyagintsev, Country/Distributor: Russia, Sony Pictures Classics, Opening February 16)

Make It Real: No Place I’d Rather Be

By Eric Hynes
January 3, 2018
Our nonfiction critic singles out his favorite screenings of 2017, where audience, film, and venue met their match

Make It Real: Star Tours

By Eric Hynes
November 3, 2017
Brushes with fame are easy to market, but the best portraits of artists and celebrity go deeper

Interview: Vitaly Mansky

By Eric Hynes
September 22, 2017
Annexation anxiety: the director of Close Relations and Under the Sun opens up about life during dictatorships

Make It Real: Acting Out

By Eric Hynes
September 4, 2017
In two new documentaries, the subjects are playing for the camera—and what’s wrong with that?

Make It Real: Give and Take

By Eric Hynes
July 3, 2017
Laura Poitras’s Risk and Mark Grieco’s A River Below grapple with trust and truth

Make It Real: Living Proof

By Eric Hynes
May 3, 2017
Melding screening and performance, filmmakers like Travis Wilkerson search for new paths to intimacy and spontaneity

Run Away: The Radical Movements of Song to Song

By Eric Hynes
March 22, 2017
Austin City Limitless: Terrence Malick furthers his experiments in camera and cutting in his free-flowing latest

Make It Real: See Through Me

By Eric Hynes
March 3, 2017
A new crop of documentaries use the “first-person” approach to move beyond the self

Make It Real: Form and Void

By Eric Hynes
January 3, 2017
In Voyage of Time, Terrence Malick throws everything at us, and finds the wisdom in wonder

Interview: Mia Hansen-Løve

By Eric Hynes
December 2, 2016
Life after life: the director of Things to Come and Eden discusses her reserved approach to narrative

Center of Gravity

By Eric Hynes
November 3, 2016
Eric Hynes investigates how Steadicam got inside our heads

Make It Real: Dramatic License

By Eric Hynes
September 6, 2016
When does the art of propaganda go beyond pushing an agenda?

Shooting the Messenger

By Eric Hynes
August 23, 2016
A critic discovers that the nonfiction film experiments of today read a lot like the 
New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s

Review: Weiner

By Eric Hynes
May 3, 2016
(Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg, U.S., 2016)

Make It Real: Tell Me About It

By Eric Hynes
May 3, 2016
Why scripting is no enemy to nonfiction

Make It Real: Formalist Vigor

By Eric Hynes
April 22, 2016
Austerity measures: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes and Speaking Is Difficult examine violence and injustice with a stringency that never turns cliché