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The 10-year-old Tribeca Film Festival has become, almost before anyone noticed, as comfortable as an old pair of Campers: a place for friends to meet up at matinees, do some celebrity gawking at the evening galas, or get a jump…
At first glance, the lineup of your typical documentary film festival could easily be mistaken for that of a horror-themed movie event. Torture, murder, economic crises, disease, crippling injury, animal cruelty, and many other varieties of atrocities crop up on…
Sundance has a deservedly good reputation for strong documentaries that become and then remain part of the cinematic conversation. In fact, four out of five of this year’s Academy Award nominees in this category were among last year’s Park City…
