The Last Impresario (2013)
★★★☆☆
A celebrity-studded bio-doc of theatre producer and playboy Michael White, Gracie Otto’s documentary uncovers the unknown man in the middle – The Last Impresario.
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Wilde Salomé (2011)
★★☆☆☆
A companion piece documentary to Pacino’s Salomé, Wilde Salomé uncovers the man behind the play. Funny, flamboyant and famous, both of them.
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story Of Aaron Swartz (2014)
★★★★☆
Compelling, terrifying and timely, The Internet’s Own Boy highlights the tragedy of Aaron Swartz’s death and the brutish power of the US Government in the face of political activism.
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
★★★☆☆
Exposing the tremendous work of a nanny-photographer undiscovered in her lifetime, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s Finding Vivian Maier uncovers a very private life lived in public places.
Beyond The Edge (2013)
★★★☆☆
Beautifully photographed and insightfully narrated, Beyond The Edge is a worthy chronicle of a New Zealand beekeeper’s quest to conquer the tallest mountain on earth.
Pantani – The Accidental Death of A Cyclist (2013)
★★★☆☆
Gearing up with the loneliness of the long-distance cyclist, James Erskine’s Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist uncovers both the agony and the ecstasy.
Next Goal Wins (2013)
★★★★☆
An utterly charming, funny and exhilarating film about football, community and tolerance, Next Goal Wins is the perfect World Cup warm up.
American Interior (2014)
★★★☆☆
Gruff Rhys’ musical journey to retrace the footsteps of relative John Evans is a weird and mostly wonderful romantic odyssey.
Visitors (2013)
★★★☆☆
By the director of Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio’s Visitors is a visually stunning, black-and-white wordless portrait of modern life with music by Philip Glass.
Journal de France (2012)
★★★☆☆
Journal de France looks back at the career of photojournalist and filmmaker Raymond Depardon, interwoven with his latest project: a portrait of rural France.
The Armstrong Lie (2013)
★★★☆☆
Through comeback, doping and scandal, Alex Gibney’s The Armstrong Lie charts the Tour de France winner’s rise to the podium and the lies that kept him there.
Teenage (2013)
★★★★☆
A teenage dream’s so hard to beat, Matt Wolf gets his Teenage kicks from all over the globe, charting the rise and fall of youth in the twentieth century.
The Missing Picture / L’Image Manquante (2013)
★★★★☆
A testimony to the horrors of the Khmer Rouge in clay, Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture is a poetic and intelligent rumination on survival, memory and murder.
Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s (2013)
★★★☆☆
Matthew Miele’s Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s is a suitably sleek star-studded behind-the-scenes documentary looking at New York’s über department store.