Tom Roston reflects on Sarah Polley’s ‘Stories We Tell’ after a first weekend of box office success.
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Seven Reasons to Love Hot Docs
Doc Soup Man Tom Roston reveals his favorite aspects of the 2013 Hot Docs Documentary Festival in Toronto, Canada.
Continue reading this entry »Hot Docs 2013: “Caucus”
Tom Roston gives his review of “Caucus,” a documentary premiered at Hot Docs this year which follows the 2012 Republican campaign trail through Iowa.
Continue reading this entry »A Call for Documentary Critics
Doc Soup Man Tom Roston says film criticism is in decline just as documentary is reaching new heights in popularity. Where are the critics who can recognize what’s great — and what’s not — in a documentary?
Continue reading this entry »Hot Docs 2013: Preview
Doc Soup Man gives a preview of the documentaries that are on his must see list as he heads to Hot Docs this week.
Continue reading this entry »Tribeca Film Festival 2013: “Big Men” and “Flex is Kings”
Tom Roston reviews documentaries “Big Men” and “Flex is Kings” at the Tribeca Film Festival (April 17-28, 2013).
Continue reading this entry »Tribeca Film Festival 2013: Documentary Preview
Tom Roston highlights 13 documentaries to look out for at the nonfiction onslaught that is the Tribeca Film Festival (April 17-28, 2013).
Continue reading this entry »“Tell Me Something” Features Advice From Fifty of the World’s Best Documentary Filmmakers
Doc Soup Man interviews Jessica Edwards, editor of “Tell me Something,” an in-progress photography and creative advice book from fifty of the world’s best documentary filmmakers.
Continue reading this entry »The Two Guccis of Tribeca 2013
Doc Soup Man Tom Roston contemplates conflicts of interest in festival funding after learning that the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival will be screening “The Director,” a documentary with a subject who is also a sponsor.
Continue reading this entry »Maidentrip: A Tale of Two Storytellers
Tom Roston talks with ‘Maidentrip’ director Jillian Schlesinger about her unconventional approach to making her film, and the questions that arise around the film’s authorship.
Continue reading this entry »Upcoming Events
Only the Young
May 20, 2013
6:30 pm
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Join the Chattanooga Film Society for a free screening of Only the Young, the first film in a Summer 2013 POV-themed series. For more information, call 423-266-3766.
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