True Lies: The Most Visionary Directors at Full Frame Know You Sometimes Have to Bend Reality to Pierce It
All decent journalists know that you can’t just aim a recording device at reality and expect it to divulge the truth. You have to analyze, interpret, and present the information in such a way that its hidden inner workings and its invisible outer context are made clear, forming a choreography of storytelling in which truths…
Skate Videos Immortalize the Physical Glory and Pain of Skateboarding Life, Leaving Docs like Minding the Gap to Explain Why
I love skateboarding, both the physical feeling and aspects of the culture, and skate videos are where the physics and culture collide. These days, the tradition of the sponsored group skate video is under siege by unaffiliated prodigies on Instagram. (The skating arms race has accelerated to the point where little kids rip as hard…
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas Is a Screed Against the Suburbs’ Numbing Design and Racist Underpinnings
“The irony is, I raised money to make this film by flipping two houses,” Giorgio Angelini says, chuckling, about Owned: A Tale of Two Americas, his documentary about the ugly side of the American housing industry, which has its world premiere at Full Frame. A native of Houston, Angelini bought his first home in Durham…
For Paradise Lost Director Joe Berlinger, True-Crime Storytelling Matters Most When It Gets Real Results
Director Joe Berlinger knows a thing or two about the power of true-crime storytelling. His award-winning 1992 debut, Brother’s Keeper, about the alleged 1990 murder of William Ward in Munnsville, New York, challenged the way documentaries presented their subjects. He followed it with Paradise Lost, which led to the release of death-row inmate Damien Echols.…
Capturing the Flag Takes a Hard Outsider’s Look at the Ugly Reality of Voting in North Carolina
Capturing the Flag, an often infuriating documentary about voting suppression in North Carolina, climaxes in a hotel room in Cumberland County, where three exhausted election volunteers are sprawled on beds watching the 2016 returns come in on the television. Being liberals who traveled to the state from New York City, they are dismayed by what…
The Same Footage, Treated as Fiction by Terrence Malick and as Fact by Eugene Richards, Forms a Complete Picture of Faith and Filmmaking
Eugene Richards’s new documentary, Thy Kingdom Come, is one of several films at Full Frame that engage with religious questions. Its origins lie in director Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder, an experimental film that weaves together stories that demonstrate memory’s witness to loveboth divine and humanamid rural and urban landscapes. Drawing on Richards’s background as…
Mad at Full Frame or Just Want More? Either Way, Single Frame Has You Covered.
Single Frame Sunday, April 8, 6 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham Maybe you can’t afford Full Frame. Maybe all the screenings you want to see are sold out. Or maybe you have a grudge against it for any number of reasonsbeing mainstream, being traditional, being elitist, being popular. In any scenario, the Smyth brothers, proprietors of…
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Play Dates For Parents
An unexpected challenge of parenting is other parents. You spend a fair amount of time talking to other adults around the swing sets, at birthday parties, and outside classrooms, and it can be harder to find a friend in another parent than it was to find your child’s other parent. But when you do, you…
A Cynic’s Guide to Date Nights For Every Bump in the Road
Human beings enjoy a bewildering variety of pastimes. How are you supposed to guess if your date would like to be asked to the museum or the bowling alley, to go on a romantic adventure or just Netflix and chill? Food is the great equalizer because everybody gotta eat. Plus, dining out is a socially…
Find a Delicious Offbeat Adventure With No Reservations
Making dinner reservations can be a drag, especially in our rapidly growing cities. I get the added bonus of being a food writer, which means most plans start with my date uttering my least favorite phrase: “You pick.” No, you pick. I pick all day! But I do love food, as most of you reading…
Romance (Or Whatever) On a Grad School Budget
The proverbial “going out for drinks” date as a grad student is challenging. Eighteen-dollar cocktails have limited appeal. And most first dates don’t lead to seconds, so it’s important to keep things fun. Here are a few good boozy options around the Triangle for the broke and potentially not-so-serious. DOYLE’S SPORTS BAR Venturing out to…
Hide Your Love Away
Whether you work in the service industry or have long hung up your apron, you’ve built a roster of bars you frequent and suddenly know nearly everyone in town. Which is what makes our local watering holes great. But when you’d like to get a drink with a new romantic partner, Tinder match, or old…
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