After a pandemic-induced hiatus, these celebrations of human-animal bonds are screening in Manhattan and beyond. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Documentary Films and Programs”
‘All the Streets Are Silent’ Review: Hip-Hop and Skateboarding Collide
By Gotham Rex on July 22, 2021
This documentary is a portrait of downtown New York in the late 1980s and early ’90s that revels in nostalgia. Source: New York Times
Martina Batan, New York Art Dealer Consumed by a Cold Case, Dies at 62
By Gotham Rex on April 9, 2021
Finding answers to the unsolved murder of her 14-year-old brother became a lifelong quest, ultimately chronicled in a documentary film. Source: New York Times
Biggie Smalls, the Human Behind the Legend
By Gotham Rex on March 1, 2021
The new Netflix documentary “Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell” captures the rapper before fame, and history, got hold of him. Source: New York Times
How a Former News Anchor and Current Painter Spends His Sundays
By Gotham Rex on February 19, 2021
John Johnson, a trailblazing Black journalist, lives in the woods now, where he has an art studio and a cozy den that he calls “the nest.” Source: New York Times
How a Neurosurgeon (and Netflix Star) Spends His Sundays
By Gotham Rex on February 13, 2021
“I exhaust myself mentally during the week,” said Dr. David Langer, whose down time includes reading and walks in Central Park. Source: New York Times
Sky Hopinka: Songs of the Earth and the Road
By Gotham Rex on November 12, 2020
The Indigenous American artist and filmmaker is the subject of two concurrent shows. His work “rivals in visual and linguistic beauty any new art I’ve seen in some time,” our critic says. Source: New York Times
Hot 97 Fires Rap Radio Veteran for Ties to Yusuf Hawkins Killing
By Gotham Rex on August 25, 2020
Employees of the radio station said they were shocked to see a colleague known as Paddy Duke in a new HBO documentary about the racist murder of a Brooklyn teenager in 1989. Source: New York Times