Q&A – Larry Clark
Larry Clark’s films are shocking. There’s Kids, about drug-using, AIDS-carrying, sexually active Manhattan teenagers; Bully, the true story of a…
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On the Margins of the Multiplex
In 1973, a young, cinema-loving bohemian couple fled the high rents of Manhattan for the more affordable suburbs of Huntington,…
One-Two Punch
I thought that making Monster’s Ball was rough. I vowed upon wrapping that film that I would never make another….
Show Us Your Shorts
“I don’t know how big of a historian you are,” begins David Dundas, one of the founders of YouAreTV, a…
Moving Images
Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me (2004) was an unqualified hit. The documentary, which followed Spurlock as he ate nothing but…
How Far We’ve Come
In 1988, 19-year-old Joanna Katz and her friend were abducted at gunpoint by five men who took turns raping, beating,…
Hell or High Water
In 1998, I joined the production team of Julie Gustafson’s Desire, a documentary about teenage girls from three diverse New…
Q&A: Linda Goldstein Knowlton and Linda Hawkins Costigan
For most people in America, “Sesame Street” warrants no introduction. The long-running PBS program and landmark, nonprofit children’s educational organization,…
State of Fear
The Last Shot The mobs were ferocious and loud. They were beating policemen, looting government buildings, and smashing the cameras…