Mar 25 ‘Sweetgrass’ Documents a Dying Tradition Through Quiet Observation Sweetgrass, a film by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash (a husband-wife team of visual anthropologists currently working at Harvard), documents one of the last of these journeys with lush, yet unsentimental intimacy. Continue reading
Mar 08 Director of ‘The Cove’ Puts Oscar in Perspective By Arts Desk A wave of new attention is likely to fall on a remote fishing village in Japan after director Louie Psihoyos won the best feature documentary prize for "The Cove" at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday. Continue reading
Mar 04 At the Oscars, Documentarians Hope Films Inspire Change By Tom LeGro The Best Documentary Feature category for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards is crowded with films that hope to make the world a little brighter. Continue reading
Dec 29 Conversation: Patti Smith By Arts Desk When fashion photographer Steven Sebring began shooting footage of the daily life of poet and performer Patti Smith -- what Smith describes as high-aesthetic home movies -- neither fully anticipated the project becoming a feature length film. Continue reading
Dec 28 Tonight on PBS, ‘Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women’ For all the quaint New England charm exuded by her classic and beloved novel, "Little Women," Louisa May Alcott was a more complicated literary figure than most give her credit for. Continue reading
Dec 11 Around the Nation, Friday Roundup By Arts Desk Here are some of this week's arts and culture headlines from public broadcasters around the nation. Continue reading
Nov 23 Monday on the NewsHour: New Biography Brings Dorothea Lange’s Life Into Focus By Tom LeGro Some photographs, like "Migrant Mother," have become iconic images, part of our shared history. It and many other photos were taken by a woman who is herself the subject of a new biography: "Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits."… Continue reading