Documentary

Bowie: Moonage Daydream

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  • Title: Bowie: Moonage Daydream
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The first documentary to be authorized by David Bowie‘s estate, Moonage Daydream is filled with clips, performances, interviews, and both public and private moments from Bowie’s life chronicling his career. While making use of a tremendous amount of archival footage, it touches on all aspects of the artist’s life championing his experimental nature without ever needing to rely on talking heads to explain specifics instead allowing Bowie’s own words to do all the heavy lifting.

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Bad Axe

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  • Title: Bad Axe
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Near the beginning of the pandemic filmmaker David Siev, who, like his siblings, moved back home to support his parents and the family business they started decades earlier, begins to record a film which will grow into a portrait of the American experience of an Asian-American family through their struggles and triumphs of 2020 in the decidedly white Conservative small town of Bad Axe, Michigan. 

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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

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  • Title: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
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Director Laura Poitras‘ documentary examines the life of artist and activist Nan Goldin. The film touches on pieces of Golden’s life including the crucible of her repressed childhood and discovery of photography and art as a method to deal with the world, her life and growth as a woman and artist in the transgender communities in New York and the post-punk drug culture of the Bowery, and her recent activism against the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma for creating and marketing OxyContin despite knowing its highly addictive qualities (which was the original subject for the documentary which was expanded to be a larger look at Goldin’s life).

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The Redeem Team

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  • Title: The Redeem Team
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After a disappointing showing in the 2004 Olympics, director Jon Weinbach‘s documentary takes a look at changes to Team USA and the rededication of NBA players to bringing home the gold medal. The film touches on several subjects including Mike Krzyzewski taking over as head coach, the struggles for the team at the 2006 World Championship, the rise of LeBron James and Dwayne Wade as superstars, and how the addition of Kobe Bryant was the final piece of the puzzle for the 2008 team who would go on to dominate in Beijing.

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McEnroe

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  • Title: McEnroe
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Featuring interviews and clips from the likes of Björn Borg, Billie Jean King, Keith Richards, Patrick McEnroe, and John McEnroe and his children, the documentary McEnroe examines the tennis career of the volatile former No. 1 tennis player in the world whose mouth often got him in trouble his talent would have to back up. I don’t know that it strikes new ground for those familiar with his career, but there’s still plenty worth checking out for tennis fans.

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