YOUR SCARIEST MOMENTS
By Gary Meyer (Updated October 29,2022) Do you ever tell people about your scariest moments? We asked all kinds of people to tell us theirs.
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Subject: Who Gets To Tell the Story?
By C.J. Hirschfield “I can’t believe a film about menstruation just won an Oscar,” enthused the director of a 2019 short subject documentary as she accepted her prize. Welcome to the golden age of the documentary, as people clamor for great nonfiction films.
Cranky– and Curious–about Cuisine
By C.J. Hirschfield When a 97 -year-old cookbook writer is called “the Mick Jagger of Mexican cuisine,” and the “Indiana Jones of food,” you know there’s gotta be a story there. There is, and a fascinating one at that. Directed by Elizabeth Carroll and screening at the Legacy Film Festival on Aging, the documentary Diana […]
The Truffle Hunters: A Flavorful Life
By C.J. Hirschfield You may assume that the stars in this delectable new documentary feature are human; and some of them are. But when you experience an exhilarating dog’s eye-view of a hunt to find the rare and wondrous fungus and hear the excited snuffling sounds of success, you understand that there would be no […]
Some Kind of Heaven: A Disneyland for Retirees
By C.J. Hirschfield “OK, Boomer.” This is the phrase used these days to mock attitudes of 55-plus year-olds who are perceived as never wanting to grow up, and thinking that the utopian ideals that they had in their youth are somehow going to translate into adulthood.
The Palindromists: Was it a rat I saw?
By C.J. Hirschfield Longtime word nerds like myself have been delighted by recent documentaries that celebrate letters and the wondrous ways they can be arranged. Films include Obit, about New York Times obituary writers, Wordplay, which covered a major crossword puzzle tournament, as well as Spellbound and Spelling the Dream, which welcomes us into the […]
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