By Gregory Crofton Sundance-Grand-Jury-Prize-winning documentary filmmaker Ondi Timoner likes to point her camera at anti-establishment thinkers who try to create their own worlds. Think Anton Newcombe of BrianJonestown Massacre, featured in her rock documentary DIG! (2004), and Internet guru Josh…
‘HANDS ON A HARD BODY’: A Documentary that Will Make You Laugh Hard and Question American Life
By Gregory Crofton One of the best things about documentaries is that they can focus on the characters of real people, and real people can be endlessly fascinating and downright funny. S.R. Bindler’s HANDS ON A HARD BODY captures both…
The Career of Comedian Jonathan Winters
Jim Lehrer talks to comedian Jonathan Winters, the 1999 winner of the Mark Twain Prize from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This interview originally aired Oct. 21, 1999. Winters died April 11, 2013, at age 87. (Source: PBS…