- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 18, 2012
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Best human-interest documentary of 2012
Best of 2012 Countdown: human-interest documentary
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 7, 2012
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Can you stop a bike from getting nicked?
An ITV London program looks at the epidemic of bike theft in central London
- Movies, Movie Review, Aug 22, 2012
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The Bourdin identities
The Imposter tells the tale of a pathological liar, including one of his pathological lies
- Blogs, Bleader, May 31, 2012
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Learning through seeing: an interview with experimental documentarian Sabine Gruffat
An interview with experimental documentarian Sabine Gruffat about her feature I Have Always Been a Dreamer
- Movies, Movie Critic's Choice, Mar 21, 2012
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From high school to the slammer
Frederick Wiseman's Juvenile Court documents the trials of youth
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 6, 2012
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Filmmaker Sean Dunne and his Vimeo catalog—juggalos included
In his Vimeo-specific documentaries, filmmaker Sean Dunne profiles a gaggle of juggalos, a record archivist, a bowling hustler, and a man living in his van in Manhattan.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 29, 2012
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What's new again: Frederick Wiseman's Model
Revisiting Frederick Wiseman's 1980 documentary Model in light of his latest, Crazy Horse
- Movies, Movie Review, Feb 16, 2012
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One drink over the line
Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery exposed life on skid row, but the filmmakers had their own problems with booze
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 15, 2011
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Al Jourgensen drops lawsuit against Ministry documentarians, distributor says
The distributor of "FIX: The Ministry Movie" says frontman Al Jourgensen has dropped a lawsuit that sought to block the film's release.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 22, 2011
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Distributor to Release Ministry Movie Despite Lawsuit
The distributor of "Fix: The Ministry Movie" still plans to shop the film in Cannes despite a lawsuit from front man Al Jourgensen.
- News & Features, The Arts, Apr 14, 2011
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The Atheist Mother's Tale
A new documentary tells the story of the Champaign housewife who got religion out of the public schools.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 2011
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Post-Rock and the Amazon
Ken Vandermark performs Saturday 4/2 at a free screening of the Amazon river documentary "Roads of Water," which he scored. Also showing clips from "Roads" director Augusto Contento's in-progress post-rock-doc "Parallax Sounds."
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 24, 2011
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Two on Yunus
Two documentaries on Nobel-winning microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus, who's fighting to keep his position as the head of the Grameen Bank he founded: "Bonsai" 3/24 and "To Catch a Dollar" 3/31.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 16, 2011
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The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity
Brian Springer's family searches for an anarchist diary and buried treasure on their Missouri farm in his documentary "The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity," screening Thursday 3/17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 7, 2011
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Filmmaker Usama Alshaibi Says He Was Beaten in Anti-Arab attack
Usama Alshaibi, director of the in-progress documentary "American Arab," claims he was beaten March 6 in Fairfield, Iowa in an anti-Arab attack.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 19, 2011
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The Interrupters
Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz tail former gang members addressing urban violence as a public health crisis in the Kartemquin Films documentary "The Interrupters," premiering Friday 1/21 at the Sundance Film Festival.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 17, 2011
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The Road to Fallujah
Proudly "unembedded" in Iraq, Mark Manning claims to be the only Western journalist living among the civilians in the aftermath of the Battle of Fallujah, whose devastating consequences he documented in "The Road to Fallujah," screening for free Tuesday 1/18 at DePaul University.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 2, 2010
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This Week's Food and Drink Events
Italian dining, gingerbread houses, beer and truffle pairings, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 12, 2010
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American Arab
Usama Alshaibi screens clips from his in-progress documentary "American Arab" and joins a panel discussion for Arab American Heritage Month, tonight at Columbia College.
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 28, 2010
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9/29—Free Screening of If These Walls Could Talk at the Music Box
The Music Box hosts a free screening of the pro-choice drama If These Walls Could Talk.
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