Roger ebert best documentaries 2018
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In anticipation of the Academy Awards, we polled our contributors to see what they thought should win the Oscar. Once we had our winners, we asked various writers to make the case for our selection in each category. Here, Peter Sobczynski makes the case for the Best Documentary of 2017: “Faces Places.” Two winners will be announced Monday through Thursday, ending in our choices for Best Director and Best Picture on Friday.
In a perfect cinematic world, the great Agnes Varda, the grand dame of the French New Wave, would already possess an Academy Award or two for her stunning body of work, covering both narrative films such as “Cleo from 5 to 7” (1962), “Vagabond” (1985) and “Jacquot de Nantes” (1991) and acclaimed documentaries like “The Gleaners and I” (2000) and “The Beaches of Agnes” (2008). And yet, despite having been celebrated for her work throughout the rest of the world, she has never so much as scored a single Oscar nomination during her long career. Now, i
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Your humble reviewer believes in full disclosure, so inom must tell you inom know ingenting about mode. Outside of what looks good on me, and what colors match, inom am clueless. I know of very few mode designers, and quite frankly, whenever inom watch a fashion show, the only thought inom usually have is “who the hell would wear that in public?” inom said those exact words a lot during “McQueen,”—it’s in my notes exactly eight times—but I’m sure the filmmakers wouldn’t mind. Directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui seem content to let us man up our own minds about their subject’s work. This documentary is as welcoming to intense fashionistas as it is to gauche fools like me.
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The International Documentary Association (IDA) celebrated the winners of its annual awards (the “Oscars” of the documentary world) during a ceremony held on Saturday at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. On the same night it was named the Best Documentary of 2018 by the Chicago Film Critics Association, Bing Liu‘s debut feature, “Minding the Gap,” earned the IDA’s highest prize of Best Feature. It’s the latest in a series of well-deserved accolades Liu’s film has collected ever since premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, where it received the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking. It has also been nominated for two major prizes at the the Film Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Documentary Feature. In addition to this top honor, Gordon Quinn, artistic director of Kartemquin Films, joined “If Beale Street Could Talk” director Barry Jenkins in presenting Liu wi