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Make It Real

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

Make It Real: Dramatic License

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

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

Make It Real: Look Ma, We’re All Hands

By Eric Hynes
March 15, 2016
Around and about: the filmmaking process and its many meanings at True/False 2016

Make It Real: I Was Up Above It, Now I’m Down In It

By Eric Hynes
February 15, 2016
Getting too comfortable: how filmmakers at Sundance express compassion—or not—in framing themselves and their subjects

Make It Real: The Big Short, A Documentary Feature

By Eric Hynes
January 22, 2016
Adam McKay made a documentary. At least, 70 years ago we would have called it that. Our intrepid columnist explains

Make It Real: How It Happened

By Eric Hynes
January 4, 2016
Ten titles testified to the vitality of nonfiction film in 2015

Make It Real: The Ones That Got Away

By Eric Hynes
December 23, 2015
Notable exceptions: giving some darned good overlooked documentaries their moment in the sun

Make It Real: Medium Well

By Eric Hynes
December 18, 2015
Sweet spots: feature-length is not the only game in town, as nonfiction fest RIDM demonstrates with its selection of mid-length miracles

Make It Real: Video Revives the Radio Star

By Eric Hynes
December 4, 2015
How many music documentaries is too many? We may soon be nearing an answer to this question.