Today in Toronto, between a Chinese documentary called “Once Upon a Time Proletarian” and a Thai anthology called “Sawasdee Bangkok,” I ran into David Wilson, the co-director of the True/False Film Fest in Columbia, Mo. Started in 2004, that early…
I’ve just returned from another unreal True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Mo. It’s one of the highlights of the year, as name-brand documentarians mingle with college kids in a town that’s much coller than when i lived there. Standout flicks…
Cheaper technology and freer standards are producing some extraordinary documentaries. Case in point: “Waltz with Bashir,” the animated film about memory and Middle Eastern conflict which opens at the Tivoli on Friday. It made numerous Top ten lists and is…
