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“Flyin’ Cut Sleeves” presents alternating portrayals, from the past and the present, of former street gang presidents in the Bronx. The project grew out of the experiences of Rita Fecher, the film’s co-producer, who taught in a South Bronx school…
Guitarist Peter Green replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and before founding Fleetwood Mac. This is one part of a BBC documentary about his career.
Film director Werner Herzog makes acidic observations about the jungle in Les Blank’s documentary “Burden of Dreams.” Herzog’s comments were likely fueled by exasperation from shooting his film “Fitzcarraldo” in the jungles of South America. Blank’s “Burden of Dreams” captures…
By Gregory Crofton Chris Whitley was a blues artist who defied the conventions of the genre. In doing so, he created truly original music. He lived a hard life of addiction and endless traveling that often accompanies someone who plays…
A documentary about Chuck Close, a photographer and painter who specializes in making huge human face pictures. At the age of 48, an artery in his spine collapsed and it nearly killed him. He survived but became paralyzed from the…
“The Jesus Movement” began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, spreading primarily through North America and Europe before dying out by the early 1980s. It was the major Christian element within…
