Most people willing to admit it will tell you they love a good disaster documentary. Seeing something come tumbling down in a glorious fashion is indeed its own form of entertainment, unique to ...
Netflix has recently entered something of a golden age of documentaries. Over the past five years, the streaming service has offered viewers high-quality disaster documentaries. These are the best 11 ...
A fly-on-the-wall documentary about the making of an $120 million movie that nobody saw and even fewer people liked, Mike Figgis’ “Megadoc” — shot on the Fayetteville, Georgia set of Francis Ford ...
There are two kinds of movies that can support a feature-length documentary about their making: masterpieces and disasters. Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is, somehow, both. Financed with $120 ...
Introduction: Seeing new -- Histories of visual witness -- Time, space, and picture writing in modern comics -- I saw it and the work of atomic bomb manga -- Maus's archival images and the post-war ...
Venice: Mike Figgis' fly-on-the-wall film about the making of "Megalopolis" is a fascinating look at the tension between work and play when creating a piece of art. Yes, it’s true that I belong to the ...