If you want to ask someone about the relationship of music to documentaries, D.A. Pennebaker would be the universally acknowledged go-to guy. The 77-year-old filmmaker has made plenty of films that aren’t about music, including the Academy Award winning The War Room, an insider’s look at Bill Clinton’s ’92 presidential campaign he directed with his […]
Jim Haverkamp
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Led Poisoning
American culture has had a hard time deciding how seriously to take heavy metal. On the one hand, metal’s parade of big hair, Hobbit-inspired imagery and tight leather pants have made it an easy target for lampoons like This is Spinal Tap and Beavis & Butthead. At other times, notably in the mid-’80s, fundamentalists and […]
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Skip Elsheimer
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when America’s classrooms resounded with the whir and clatter of 16mm film projectors, and hapless teachers relied on a special brand of nerd, the A/V geek, to operate them. Cinematic jewels like How Do Plants Reproduce? and The Voter Decides molded young minds–or at least […]
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Homework
In the annals of documentary filmmaking, the names Vivan Bowman Edwards, Annie Howell, Brett Ingram and Sandra Jacobi might not jump out at you. But all that that may change after this weekend’s DoubleTake Documentary Film Festival, when films by these four Triangle residents show on the same big screen as films by documentary legends […]