Six years ago, at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, a documentary made its world premiere to good reviews but little additional fanfare. “ Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders ” won a special jury prize but didn’t generate a bidding war worthy of breathless coverage in the trades. Still, it proved to be easily the most prescient film on the circuit that year, foreshadowing the subprime mortgage scandal, consumer debt crisis and financial meltdown that would capture headlines two years later. Read full article > >

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‘Maxed Out’ predicted the financial crisis, but it might have been only the beginning

Six years ago, at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, a documentary made its world premiere to good reviews but little additional fanfare. “ Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders ” won a special jury prize but didn’t generate a bidding war worthy of breathless coverage in the trades. Still, it proved to be easily the most prescient film on the circuit that year, foreshadowing the subprime mortgage scandal, consumer debt crisis and financial meltdown that would capture headlines two years later. Read full article > >

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‘Maxed Out’ predicted the financial crisis, but it might have been only the beginning

If you find yourself in the doghouse, you can hope it would be as charming as this one: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s design for a child’s doghouse has been reconstructed, and is touring the country as the subject of a new documentary. Read full article > >

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ONLY ONCE IN the long history of “Doonesbury” has Garry Trudeau ’s syndicate ever intensely objected to one of his story arcs. It was 1985, a documentary purporting to show the reactions of a fetus had been released, and Trudeau satirized the film “The Silent Scream” with his own “prequel” strips featuring “little Timmy,” a 12-minute-old embryo. Read full article > >

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THE ‘DOONESBURY’ INTERVIEW: Garry Trudeau says to ignore abortion-law debate would have been ‘comedy malpractice’

ONLY ONCE IN the long history of “Doonesbury” has Garry Trudeau ’s syndicate ever intensely objected to one of his story arcs. It was 1985, a documentary purporting to show the reactions of a fetus had been released, and Trudeau satirized the film “The Silent Scream” with his own “prequel” strips featuring “little Timmy,” a 12-minute-old embryo. Read full article > >

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THE ‘DOONESBURY’ INTERVIEW: Garry Trudeau says to ignore abortion-law debate would have been ‘comedy malpractice’

Ginger Baker is furious. The legendary 70-year-old drummer brandishes a cane as he stomps across his South African yard toward a documentary filmmaker named Jay Bulger. Baker leans through the open door of Bulger’s Toyota 4Runner, angling the cane toward him. Read full article > >

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Washington native Jay Bulger’s first documentary film, about drummer Ginger Baker, will premiere at South by Southwest Film Festival

Ginger Baker is furious. The legendary 70-year-old drummer brandishes a cane as he stomps across his South African yard toward a documentary filmmaker named Jay Bulger. Baker leans through the open door of Bulger’s Toyota 4Runner, angling the cane toward him. Read full article > >

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Washington native Jay Bulger’s first documentary film, about drummer Ginger Baker, will premiere at South by Southwest Film Festival

It can be a real problem when the people you’re making a documentary about are forbidden by their religious code from appearing in it. The Amish of PBS’s beautiful and gently rendered film “The Amish” (airing Tuesday night) are mainly seen in groups, from a distance. When they tell their individual stories, we hear audio only; the camera is not permitted to film them directly or intimately. Read full article > >

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PBS’s ‘The Amish’: In this world, but not of it

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani women who survive revenge-based acid attacks are, in the words of one, the “living dead.” But their stories take on new life in the Oscar-nominated documentary “Saving Face,” which follows two victims with disfiguring acid injuries as they attempt to reclaim their dignity and identities. Read full article > >

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Pakistani film follows survivors of acid attacks

The 1956 quasi documentary “On the Bowery,” which filmed the area’s characters, bars and flophouses, is finally being released on DVD.

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Crime Scene: ‘On the Bowery,’ on DVD, Captures a Grittier Time

Last month, just days after the cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground off a Tuscan island, killing 17 people and leaving 15 missing, Discovery Channel announced that it would “dissect the anatomy” of the Friday the 13th disaster and — with the quiet confidence of a network long used to being the only game in town — said the docu would air “this spring.” Read full article > >

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National Geographic to air first documentary on Concordia sinking

A documentary, “Room 237,” collects theories and interpretations surrounding the symbols and intentions of Stanley Kubrick in his film “The Shining.”

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War on drugs documentary also gets award.

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‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Wins Sundance

German director Wim Wenders has always been interested in collaboration. He’s written scripts with such authors as Sam Shepard and Peter Handke, worked with musicians as diverse as U2 and the Buena Vista Social Club and co-directed a film with one of his cinematic forbears, Michelangelo Antonioni. Yet his new 3-D dance documentary, “Pina,” comes as a surprise — even to him. Read full article > >

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Talks retiring his band LCD Soundsystem and new documentary.

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James Murphy Says ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’