Despite being a tad too long and a trifle repetitive, the documentary essay “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” from American helmer Penny Lane is a thought-provoking personal investigation into a ...

A program of two films by German documentary-essay filmmaker Harun Farocki: Respite (2007) and Images of the World and the Inscription of War (1988). Jonathan Rosenbaum called the latter “a ...

It’s very easy to misread the title of Victor Kossakovsky’s latest documentary as “Architection,” since it is, in some ways, a detective story about the world we live in, albeit one in which it is ...

In the 44 years since his death in 1980, Alfred Hitchcock has become a cinematic cottage industry, with almost as many movies about the director as movies made by him. (More if you count the entire ...

An exploration of the science, history and ethics of organ donation in the context of the filmmaker's kidney donation. For the record, Lane thought about donating a kidney long before she thought of ...