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  • Are We 'Surviving Progress'?
    Director Mathieu Roy looks at the risks of our technologically advanced age and tackles huge, existential questions within the wrapper of an 86-minute documentary. The film opens in New York City this weekend and expands to other select cities in April and May.
    Edward J. Delaney 4 min read April 6, 2012 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Werner Herzog: 'I am the director'
    Who is the director? Albert Maysles and Werner Herzog take two positions after DOC NYC's opening night premiere of Herzog's doc Into the Abyss.
    Tom Roston 3 min read November 3, 2011 Doc Soup Comments
  • 2011 New York Film Festival Documentary Preview
    Documentaries have been a staple of the New York Film Festival, the city's eclectic showcase of international auteurs, and 2011's edition (Sept. 30 to Oct. 16) is no exception.
    Adam Schartoff 5 min read September 22, 2011 Documentary News Comments
  • Documentary Awards Season – A Response
    POV’s Series Producer Yance Ford responds to Tom Roston’s assertion that most of the nominees for the best documentary feature in the International Documentary Assocation, Gotham Awards and Cinema Eye Honors lists are obscure titles that haven’t received much in the way of “critical attention.” What do The Village Voice, The New York Times, Filmmaker […]
    Yance Ford 3 min read November 18, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Directors Who Doc
    There’s something that irks me when I see these giant full-page ads in The New York Times like the recent ones that have been promoting the Rolling Stones, Martin Scorsese, and the recent rock doc, Shine a Light. When big-time feature directors make docs, the amount of attention they get is just a little bit […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read April 14, 2008 Doc Soup Comments