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Jandek on Corwood & In the Realms of the Unreal
Real Reviews BlogReclusive artists are always good subjects for documentaries. In the cases of Jandek (the subject of Chad Freidrichs’ Jandek on Corwood) and Henry Darger (the subject of Jessica Yu’s In the Realms of the Unreal) one releases his music from a hiding place while the other never showed his art to the public. The intrigue [...]
Dungeon Masters
Real Reviews BlogIf, like me, you’ve never played a game of dungeons and dragons in your life, there’s a good chance you have a vague idea of what it’s all about but have no idea how to play. Well, you’re not going to learn by watching Dungeon Masters. Smartly, this film doesn’t try to take the viewer [...]
Operation Filmmaker
Real Reviews BlogApparently good deeds don’t go unpunished. Actor/director Liev Schrieber thought he was giving an Iraqi film student a great opportunity by bringing him onset of his film Everything is Illuminated in the Czech Republic. Instead, the film student turned out to be more of a problem than expected. Filmmaker Nina Davenport is brought on board [...]
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Real Reviews BlogAbout a month ago I was in a tattoo shop when I overheard four of the artists discussing a documentary. When I heard one of them say “It’s the best documentary since American Movie. In fact, I think it’s better than American Movie,” I had to ask what they were talking about. It was King [...]
American Teen
Real Reviews BlogDirector Nanette Burstein wanted to create an entertaining honest portrait of the often misunderstood and written off demographic – the American Teen. Giving a fresh take on the genre highly defined by the archetypes of the popular girl, the jock, the geek and the rebel seems like a daunting task but Burstein took those labels [...]
Global Metal
Real Reviews BlogWhen Sam Dunn’s second installation of his personal study of the anthropology of heavy metal music begins it appears to be more of the same. A return to the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany, another introduction to Dunn and his history as an anthropology graduate and a major metal fan, and a kind of [...]
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Factual Entertainment Forum 2011 - Rob Sharenow, EVP programming at Lifetime Networks, during the “Non-Scripted Network Stars” panel at Realscreen’s Factual Entertainment Forum.