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The One and Only Dick Gregory is Necessary Right Now

Having just lost Paul Mooney, this in-depth look at the life of legendary @IAmDick Gregory @showtime couldn't come at a better time. What a blessisng he continues to be. #dickgregory #afidocs

The 60’s brought an onslaught of comic talent whose presence soare like comets for decades. Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Moms Mabley, Paul Mooney and Dick Gregory. Being from St. Louis, Missouri, I was more than a little familiar with Dick Gregory. He attended Sumner High School with my Mom and my Uncle (who he shared on spot on the track team wtih). The world know him as a acerbic comedy talent…

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Film Review: No Straight Lines - The Rise of Queer Comics ★★★1/2

Film Review: No Straight Lines – The Rise of Queer Comics ★★★1/2

Directed and produced by Peabody Award-winner Vivian Kleiman (a longtime collaborator of filmmaker Marlon Riggs), the beautifully crafted documentary feature No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, which received its world premiere at last month’s Tribeca Film Festival, chronicles the history of queer comics by focusing on five lesbian and gay trailblazing cartoonists, with insights from the…

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My Name Is Pauli Murray Review: A Forgotten American Icon Reearthed

Now streaming on #PrimeVideo, the latest documentary from Betsy West & Julie Cohen uncovers a previously unknown activist - Pauli Murray. Read my review below!

I want to see America be itself.Pauli Murray We all know the name Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, and other civil rights heroes from the 1960s. Most documentaries will often cover these people, the events that surrounded them, or other social issues of the time. However, My Name Is Pauli Murray‘s titular subject is not a name I’d heard before, nor was many of the…

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Halfway—2021.

Two Filipino indies lead the Letterboxd Top 25 at the 2021 halfway point, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to shake—and reshape—the film industry. Jack Moulton and Gemma Gracewood take stock.

Cleaners, Glenn Barit’s photocopied, hand-colored, stop-motion feature about high schoolers in the northern Philippines city of Tuguegarao, is the highest-rated 2021 film on Letterboxd at the halfway point of the year, with a weighted average of 4.3 out of 5 stars. Ode to Nothing, by Barit’s fellow countrywoman Dwein Baltazar, is in second place, and Shaka King’s two-time Oscar-winner Judas and the Black Messiah rounds out the top three.

Last year was a transition year in many ways: for the world, a pandemic-led move away from cinema screenings to at-home virtual theaters and streaming-first releases; for Letterboxd, a move away from US-led release dates in our annual calculations. This has opened the way for notable films from around the world to be included on our lists far sooner than their oft-delayed American releases (which had resulted in, for example, Brazil’s Bacurau not making the 2019 Letterboxd Year in Review).

Both of these factors help to explain why we have two Filipino independent features leading our midway Top 25. “Cleaners and Ode to Nothing are exactly the kind of small Filipino films that would have struggled to get national distribution in theaters in the before times, despite the buzz that they garnered,” writes Manila-based film critic Philbert Dy in his companion essay to the Top 25, in which he explains how the Philippines’ particularly long and harsh Covid lockdown has “led to smaller, quirkier films being made accessible to more Filipinos, whose consumption of cinema were once beholden to the whims of conglomerate cinema owners”.

‘Cleaners’, written and directed by Glenn Barit.

When we shared the good news with him, a delighted Cleaners director Glenn Barit specifically shouted out his nation’s film lovers: “It is a testament to a vibrant Filipino film community still actively watching and supporting films of our own. Especially with a film like ours set in a small city far from the capital, it is amazing to read in reviews that it resonates with a lot of people (sometimes even outside our country).”

From this year forward, our mid-year rankings include films that have been released in any country, with at least a limited theatrical, streaming or video-on-demand run, and a minimum of 1,000 views on Letterboxd. These new rules allow us to celebrate the love for Katie Found’s lesbian romance My First Summer—released in Australia in March—without having to wait for the US to catch up. It joins indie highlight Shiva Baby, Michael Rianda’s animated hit The Mitchells vs The Machines and Heidi Ewing’s swooning romance, I Carry You With Me, on the Top 25 in putting young, queer characters on the screen.

‘My First Summer’, written and directed by Katie Found.

As expected, many films on the list have suffered pandemic delays. We use premiere dates to mark the year of record for each film, so A Quiet Place Part II will always be attached to its March 2020 red-carpet screening, despite the fourteen-month hibernation that followed. This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection by Mosotho director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese screened at 2019’s Venice Film Festival and had a very long festival run until Mubi picked it up for streaming in the UK this year. The film’s lead, Mary Twala, passed away a year ago, July 4, 2020 (see her also in Beyoncé’s Black is King). Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Our Friend—one of the eight women-directed films on the list—went to TIFF, London, and AFI before being released this January without screening once in 2020.

More than half of our Top 25 films are directed by BIPOC directors, nearly a dozen of whom are of Asian descent, illuminating a key benefit of the new eligibility system. Challenging the US for the most represented country is India with five films in the list, taking advantage of Amazon’s distribution deal and creating greater accessibility for Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam-language films at home and abroad.

‘Red Post Post on Escher Street’, written and directed by Sion Sono.

Also among the Asian directors making the list are legends Tsai Ming-liang and Sion Sono. Tsai’s Days recently received a limited run in Spain (it will be brought to the US by Grasshopper Films this August), while Sono’s Red Post Post on Escher Street had a quick VOD run in February courtesy of Japan Society Film.

Produced in the US and directed by Japanese-Brazilian Edson Oda, Nine Days qualifies due to an exclusive run at the Singapore arthouse theater The Projector in May—it’ll be released in the US later this month. Finally, Asian American director Jon M. Chu makes the list with his adaptation of Quiara Alegría Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights. We are also happy to see a couple of Letterboxd members in the halfway 25: Cleaners’ Barit and Chad Hartigan (Little Fish). If you’d like to discover more 2021 releases by our member-filmmakers, we have a list for that.

The Top 25 is, of course, solely made up of narrative feature-length films. On the documentary front, Flee is currently the highest-rated non-fiction feature of 2021. Neon is expected to release the film in the US for an awards run later this year, but it’s eligible now due to a release earlier this month in director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s homeland of Denmark.

‘Flee’, directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen.

Fellow Sundance Film Festival winner Summer of Soul (or… When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is currently the year’s highest-rated documentary in general, but was 48 hours shy of eligibility for the halfway list, releasing in theaters and on Hulu on July 2. The runners-up are: Sir Alex Ferguson: Never Give In, directed by the notorious football manager’s son; David Attenborough’s The Year Earth Changed, directed by Tom Beard; and rock-docs TINA and (in his doc-directing debut) Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers.

In other categories, It’s a Sin is the highest-rated narrative miniseries at the midway point, Can’t Get You Out of Our Head by Adam Curtis is the highest-rated documentary miniseries, Bo Burnham: Inside is the highest-rated comedy special, Blackpink: The Show is the highest-rated music film, Save Ralph is the highest-rated animated short film, and Four Roads, by Alice Rohrwacher, is the highest-rated live-action short film.

With Cannes underway and more festivals to come, it is still a long road to the 2021 Year in Review for these films—but given the journey most of them have already travelled, it is pleasing to celebrate the filmmakers’ success. Ang galing ninyong lahat!

On top of its meticulously bonkers production process, our highest-ranked film, Cleaners, had a long journey to its first theatrical distribution, and it’s far from over. The film premiered at the QCinema International Film Festival in October 2019, to raves from Filipino Letterboxd members, and it still holds a firm grasp on its high rating nearly two years later. Ultimately, the first non-fest release for Cleaners occurred when Singapore’s Asian Film Archive screened it for a week in April, thus qualifying the film for our 2021 lists.

‘Ode to Nothing’, written, directed and edited by Dwein Baltazar.

Ode to Nothing has been on an even longer journey. The film also debuted at the QCinema Festival, but in 2018, and finally arrived on local streaming services iWantTFC and KTX.PH earlier this year.

Being celebrated by their countryfolk on Letterboxd is one thing, but how can those of us outside the Philippines see these top two films? Perhaps we need to give our local distributors a nudge. As Cleaners director Barit explains: “We are a team of three first-time filmmakers and producers. We are still learning the ropes of film distribution and marketing—and it’s been very hard. I just want to shamelessly say that our doors are wide open for distribution and acquisition; we are not yet available on any streaming platforms locally or internationally [winks nervously].”

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Poster And Trailer For Netflix Documentary PRAY AWAY

Check out these official poster and trailer for Netflix Original Documentary PRAY AWAY. The film debuts globally on Netflix August 3rd. Following an incredibly moving premiere the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, with survivor Julie Rodgers and former leader Randy Thomas in attendance, the film also screened at DOC 10 in Chicago and AFI DOCS in Washington D.C. The film had originally been invited to…

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It’s Sunday and today’s Classic for Connor is the RKO Radio Picture’s 1938 screwball romp “Bringing up Baby” directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Nissa the trained leopard! I love this film and there are 4 things I find the most remarkable... 1st: The Peter Bogdanovich farce “What’s Up, Doc?” was directly inspired by this film. Bogdanovich even consulted with Howard Hawks before filming. This is why the character dynamics of Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neil in that film exactly match Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant in “Baby”. 2nd: Seeing this film you’d think Katherine Hepburn had an extensive background in comedy.... nope. Despite the role being written for her she was so unsure about her comedy skills that early into filming famed vaudeville comic Walter Catlett had to be brought in to coach her. She was so grateful she insisted that Catlett be given the role of the bumbling Sheriff in the movie. 3rd: Hard to believe but Cary Grant was Howard Hawks’ last choice for the lead opposite Hepburn. The role was written with Harold Lloyd in mind but Lloyd was rejected by the producer. The role was then offered to, and turned-down by Fredrick March, Ray Milland and Robert Montgomery before Grant was finally considered. I just can’t imagine anyone other than Grant in the role. Finally: Howard Hawks only made “Bringing Up Baby” because of production delays in what was supposed to be his next film “Gunga Din”. However, “Bringing Up Baby” turned out to be such a box office disaster that “Gunga Din” would be taken away from Hawks and given to another director. Ironically, much like Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Bringing Up Baby” would eventually be embraced as a beloved masterpiece, preserved by the Library of Congress and listed by the AFI as one of the Greatest American Films of All-Time. And here in 2021 the film would go on to receive the coveted “Connor thought it was funny” award for making the little booger laugh... a lot. https://www.instagram.com/p/CKuNnzEjX0J/?igshid=1mt5pn2uimhwo

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HUNTSVILLE STATION a film by Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone Contact: Jamie (https://bit.ly/39D9rz5) and Chris (https://bit.ly/2XLEq6C) Every weekday, inmates are released from Huntsville State Penitentiary, taking in their first moments of freedom with phone calls, cigarettes, and quiet reflection at the Greyhound station up the block. SCREENINGS, AWARDS, and NOMINATIONS: IDA Documentary Awards – Best Short Nominee, 2020 Cinema Eye Honors – Outstanding Nonfiction Short Nominee, 2020 Berlinale, 2020 SXSW, 2020 Hot Docs, 2020 AFI Docs, 2020 DOXA, 2020 – Honorable Mention: Short Documentary Award Docaviv, 2020 – Best Short Award (Academy-Qualifying) Seminci: Valladolid International Film Festival, 2020 – Special Mention: Time of History Competition Camden International Film Festival, 2020 DOC NYC, 2020 Chicago International Film Festival, 2020 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 2020 Calgary International Film Festival, 2020 New Orleans Film Festival, 2020 Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporaneo, 2020 – Special Jury Mention: International Short Film Competition Double Exposure Film Festival, 2020 SFFILM Doc Stories, 2020 IFF Message to Man Film Festival, 2020 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, 2020 Telluride Mountainfilm, 2020 Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, 2020 – Special Mention: International Competition Kyiv International Short Film Festival, 2020 – Grand Prix Award: International Competition Champs-Elysees Film Festival, 2020 – Jury Prize: Short Film Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, 2020 – Best Documentary Short Uppsala International Short Film Festival, 2020 Flickerfest, 2021 Palm Springs International Shortfest, 2020 – Special Mention: Best Documentary Short St. Louis International Film Festival, 2020 Milwaukee Film Festival, 2020 Odense International Film Festival, 2020 – Nominee: The Soapbox Award Beijing International Short Film Festival, 2020 Indy Shorts International Film Festival, 2020 Lille International Short Film Festival, 2020 Crested Butte Film Festival, 2020 – Best Documentary Short DC Shorts Film Festival, 2020 Savannah Film Festival, 2020 – Southern Voices: Best of Show Award Philadelphia Film Festival, 2020 – Honorable Mention: Best Documentary Short Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2020 Tirana International Film Festival, 2020 Nashville Film Festival, 2020 Drunken Film Festival, 2020 Tofifest International Film Festival, 2020 Tacoma Film Festival, 2020 50²201 Magazine, Berlin, 2020 OFF CINEMA International Documentary Film Festival, 2020 Glimmerglass Film Days, 2020 Shorts That Are Not Pants, 2020 – Best Documentary Short Blue Danube Film Festival, 2020 Las Cruces International Film Festival, 2020 Dumbo Film Festival, 2021 Loft Short Film Festival, 2020 Fargo Film Festival, 2021 National Gallery of Art, 2021 "Unorthodocs," Wexner Center for the Arts, 2021 The New York Times Op-Docs, 2020 https://bit.ly/3qtswe9

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Trade Center from Adam Baran on Vimeo.

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.

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Festivals and Awards *SXSW Film Festival, 2021 (World Premiere) *AFI Docs, 2021 *Maryland Film Festival, 2021 *Oak Cliff Film Festival, 2021 (Special Jury Mention) *Provincetown International Film Festival, 2021 *North Bend Film Festival, 2021 (Special Jury Award) *Rooftop Films Summer Series, 2021 *Inside/Out Toronto 2SLGBT+ Festival, 2021 *Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, 2021 *Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, 2021 *image + nation LGBT Film Festival Montreal, 2021 *Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival 2021, (Adam Baran Award) *Norwegian Short Film Festival, 2021 *Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, 2021 *Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem PA, 2021 *Out on Film Atlanta LGBTQ Film Festival, 2021 *Vilnius Queer Festival "Krieves" 2021 *QFlix Philadelphia 2021: The LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Directed by Adam Baran Based on: "The Towers of Cum & Horndogs of Yore" written by Billy Miller Voices: Billy Miller, Chris, Dale Corvino, Joe, Rick Cinematographer: Daniel Lam Editor: Colin Fitzpatrick Producer: Adam Baran & Ethan Weinstock Original Score: Mike Brun Billy Miller Interview recorded at MSB Studios by Recording Engineer Michael Sackler-Berner Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer: Connor Donahue Colorist: Ben Federman Main Title Design: Mikey Harmon

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charlyramgro · 3 years

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Trade Center from Adam Baran on Vimeo.

The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.

Press: GQ Magazine: shorturl.at/fBGNU

Festivals and Awards *SXSW Film Festival, 2021 (World Premiere) *AFI Docs, 2021 *Maryland Film Festival, 2021 *Oak Cliff Film Festival, 2021 (Special Jury Mention) *Provincetown International Film Festival, 2021 *North Bend Film Festival, 2021 (Special Jury Award) *Rooftop Films Summer Series, 2021 *Inside/Out Toronto 2SLGBT+ Festival, 2021 *Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, 2021 *Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, 2021 *image + nation LGBT Film Festival Montreal, 2021 *Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival 2021, (Adam Baran Award) *Norwegian Short Film Festival, 2021 *Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, 2021 *Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem PA, 2021 *Out on Film Atlanta LGBTQ Film Festival, 2021 *Vilnius Queer Festival "Krieves" 2021 *QFlix Philadelphia 2021: The LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Directed by Adam Baran Based on: "The Towers of Cum & Horndogs of Yore" written by Billy Miller Voices: Billy Miller, Chris, Dale Corvino, Joe, Rick Cinematographer: Daniel Lam Editor: Colin Fitzpatrick Producer: Adam Baran & Ethan Weinstock Original Score: Mike Brun Billy Miller Interview recorded at MSB Studios by Recording Engineer Michael Sackler-Berner Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer: Connor Donahue Colorist: Ben Federman Main Title Design: Mikey Harmon

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thecurvycritic · 3 years

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Storm Lake Reminds of the Importance of Local Press Amid News Deserts

When was the last time you saw a newstand or picked up a local paper? Storm Lake reminds me that supporting local papers is a journalistic lifeline for some communiites #stormlake #afidocs

Not along ago, sitting at a stop sign, a newstand I frequented was shut down. It’s not an uncommon scene. In the past 15 years, one in four newspapers have shuttered in the US. With a circulation of almost 3,000 readers this twice-a-week paper, the Storm Lake Times, is one of the last of its kind. People don’t support journalism they way they used to. The whole professionis becoming a…

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thequeereview · 3 years

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Exclusive Interview: Outfest LA 2021 spotlight artist Angelo Madsen Minax "my fellow queers are ready for a little more nuance in their representation & they'll get that in North By Current"

Exclusive Interview: Outfest LA 2021 spotlight artist Angelo Madsen Minax “my fellow queers are ready for a little more nuance in their representation & they’ll get that in North By Current”

Award-winning artist, performer, musician, and filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to Outfest this month with his deeply personal feature North By Current, following its world premiere at the 2021 Berlin Film Festival, where it was nominated for both Best Documentary and a Teddy Award. The raw, unflinching portrait of his Mormon family reeling from tragedy was shot over five years in his rural…

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hollywoodglees · 3 years

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THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES SPONSORS FOR AFI DOCS 2021

THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE (@AMERICANFILM) ANNOUNCES SPONSORS FOR @AFIDOCS 2021 #AMERICANFILM #AFIDOCS

THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ANNOUNCESSPONSORS FOR AFI DOCS 2021 Support Comes From Wide Range of Art and Cultural Institutions, Media Partners and Corporations Apple Original Films Joins AFI DOCS as a Premium Sponsor FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 18, 2021, WASHINGTON, DC — The American Film Institute (AFI) has announced the sponsors for AFI DOCS 2021. Support for the festival comes from both…

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haute-lifestyle-com · 3 years

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AFI DOCS Announces FULL Slate HYBRID Film Festival - #janetwalker #hautelifestylecom #theentertainmeentzonecom #documentaryfilm #film #filmfestival #movies #artist #filmmaking

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AFI DOCS Reveals 2021 Program, 52 Percent of Films Are Directed By Women

AFI DOCS has once again reached gender parity. This year’s lineup includes 77 films from 23 countries, with 52 percent of the titles directed by women, 40 percent by BIPOC directors, and 18 percent by LGBTQ directors. A press release announced the news. Sixty-one percent of last year’s slate were directed by women. As previously announced, women-directed docs are set to bookend the 19th edition…

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