Cinema Verite debuts tonight on HBO at 9 p.m. Eastern. In 1973, PBS actually had a big, magazine-cover, water cooler hit, with a documentary series that bore no resemblance to a Ken Burns production.

Martin Scorsese stirred up controversy in 2019 by calling Marvel films “theme parks.” He argued that big franchise movies, with the main purpose of entertainment, were different from true cinema, an ...

The jury members for the national competition category included Kamran Shirdel (veteran documentarist), Younes Shokrkhah (journalist and academician), Seifollah Samadian (director and cinematographer) ...

HBO has dominated the TV movie for ages. The network has won the last 7 Emmys for Outstanding Made for TV Movie, not to mention 16 of the last 19. But it's not the sexiest format, so HBO's efforts do ...

A lineup of top documentaries from Chilean filmmakers will be screened and reviewed by critics and film experts during the festival, which will be held totally online during December due to a spike in ...

“The Wheel”, the winner of the IDFA award for best mid-length documentary 2020, is a highlight of the lineup. Directed by Mongolian filmmaker Nomin Lkhagvasuren, this film explores why the descendants ...

Paramount turned itself into a time capsule from the 1970s to bring back the Louds of “An American Family” fame. HBO preemed its “Cinema Verite” pic, about reality TV’s first family, and a few members ...

Host Scott Simon remembers documentary filmmaker Ricky Leacock, who died this week. Leacock helped create the genre known as cinema verite. Richard Leacock died this week in Paris at the age of 89. He ...

Richard Brody on Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s “Cinema Verite ” (2011). Yeah, just keep on coming. Remember, we're invisible. You're right in front of me. and broadcast in 1973. The ...