Category Archives: documentary

the final cuts (documentary: Matisse Live – Phil Grabsky, 2014)

Posted on February 15, 2019 by admin

The ‘Exhibition on Screen‘ series gave us yesterday the opportunity to watch at the local cinematheque the great exhibition of Matisse’s works in the final decade of his life, organized five years ago by Tate Modern in London and MoMA … Continue reading →

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the shadows of the victory (documentary: Censored Voices – Amos Oz, 2015)

Posted on February 10, 2019 by admin

The Israeli writer Amos Oz, deceased at the end of 2018, was praised as one of his country’s and the world’s most important contemporary writers. His relationship with cinema is illustrated by quite a significant number of references on IMDB, … Continue reading →

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at the German roots of the moving images (documentary: Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky – Wim Wenders, 1995)

Posted on February 9, 2019 by admin

‘Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky‘ started as a research and production project by Wim Wenders and his students about the beginnings of cinema in Germany. The result was interesting enough to become a (almost) long duration documentary. In Wim Wenders’ cinema, sprinkled … Continue reading →

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beautiful documentary about one of the greatest artists ever (Michelangelo: Love and Death – David Bickerstaff, 2017)

Posted on February 2, 2019 by admin

Can anything new be said, in writing or on the screen, about Michelangelo Buonarroti? Unlike many other unlucky genius or valued artists, the sculptor, painter, architect, Renaissance man born in Tuscany in 1475 was recognized during his life as a … Continue reading →

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a special kind of documentary (Film: LoveTrue – Alma Har’el, 2017)

Posted on January 29, 2019 by admin

‘LoveTrue‘, the second (only) documentary by Alma Har’el (after ‘Bombay Beach‘ in 2011) confirms that we are dealing with a film-maker with an original style and voice, who has something to say about the realities and the people around us, … Continue reading →

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a nostalgic documentary (Film: My Generation – Michael Caine, 2017)

Posted on January 26, 2019 by admin

Revolutions are rare in England’s history, but when they happen, they shake off the system and have repercussions not only on the Island but also around the world. More than three hundred years after Cromwell’s revolution and 150 years after … Continue reading →

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art documentary at its best (documentary: Cocottes et courtisanes dans l’oeil des peintres – Sandra Paugam, 2015)

Posted on July 28, 2018 by admin

When the cannons of the World War I fell silent and the world started to wake up from the global nightmare in which many millions of soldiers and civilians were killed, and even more left crippled physically or psychologically, people … Continue reading →

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sound of life (Film – Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary – John Scheinfeld, 2016)

Posted on March 17, 2018 by admin

A revolution took place by the mid of the 20th century in American and world music. Jazz, which was until then music for mostly dance and mass entertainment split its ways into several distinct currents, giving birth to rock and … Continue reading →

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the art of succeeding (Film – Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back, 2016)

Posted on February 25, 2018 by admin

Art defies logic. Market forces defy logic. The combination of art and market which is the market of art cannot but defy logic. This may be one of the reasons controversial works of art like the ones created by contemporary … Continue reading →

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the great comeback (Film: Chavela – Chavela Vargas, 2017)

Posted on February 2, 2018 by admin

Born in Costa Rica and having lived most of her life in Mexico, singer Chavela Vargas was a pioneer on many respects. Born in 1919, she became famous in the 1950s but her career was interrupted and she was forgotten … Continue reading →

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