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Make It Real

Make It Real: Notes on Nonfiction Camp

By Eric Hynes
September 5, 2018
In The Gospel of Eureka, the humor and fabulous pageantry are more than just for laughs

Make It Real: Evidence of a Life

By Eric Hynes
July 2, 2018
Wang Bing’s Dead Souls does justice to the few who lived to tell the tale of mass atrocity

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

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

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

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