by Joey Daoud | May 6, 2008 | Film Festival
If you need an example of a talking head doc, this is it. For an HBO film ((I did learn that it wasn’t produced by HBO, only acquired prior to Sundance)), I was kind of let down, but later it made sense. The Blacklist is a series of interviews of some of the...
by Joey Daoud | Jun 5, 2008 | Documentary
Out in the middle of the Mojave desert at Ft. Irwin, California, is a billion dollar mock Iraq village in an Army training center, filled with Iraqi roll players. Before units are deployed to Iraq, they come here for three weeks to simulate what they will encounter in...
by Joey Daoud | Jul 15, 2008 | Documentary, Film Business
Below are my notes from the one panel I attended at Full Frame – The State of the Doc. It’s a little more cheerful than Mark Gill’s outlook on independent cinema, though re-reading this now, some panelists seemed to be predicting what was going to...
by Joey Daoud | Aug 25, 2008 | Documentary
HBO Documentaries: Documentary Films Series: The Blacklist: Synopsis Previously mentioned The Blacklist is now playing on HBO. Schedule here. Definitely worth a watch once you think of it as a collection of moving portraits (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the director,...
by Joey Daoud | Aug 27, 2008 | Documentary, Movies
I loved this movie. It was by far my favorite film at Full Frame. I’ve noted before how I’m on the fence about going into narratives or docs. This proved you can accomplish both. Following four high school seniors, American Teen was like watching all the...
