By Gregory Crofton How do you make a film about life when you’re dying? Héctor Babenco somehow figured it out. “I don’t know what came first, filming or being alive,” he says. “As if by filming, you’re living an extra…
‘TIGER KING’ is a brilliant doc series about captive tigers and the people they attract
By Gregory Crofton Joe Exotic has a dyed blonde mullet and is a decent country singer. He’s married to two men and he likes guns. He likes to fire them into the lake that’s part of his exotic zoo in…
Early Days Madonna Doc Hits the Right Note
By Gregory Crofton Director Guy Guido is an unabashed fan of this American icon and it shows in his film, an engaging mix of documentary and drama that reveals what went on with the young, vulnerable Madonna before she became…
Psychedelic Gurus Timothy Leary and Ram Dass Ejected from Harvard in ‘DYING TO KNOW’
By Gregory Crofton Timothy Leary sat before Congress and answered questions about the psychedelic drugs he had rigorously tested as a psychologist at Harvard University. How does LSD really affect someone? Should these drugs be allowed in America? Leary, thinking…
‘WESTERN’: Examines the Impact of Drug Violence on Two Border Towns
By Gregory Crofton Making WESTERN was a noble effort by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross (45365 and TCHOUPITOULAS), two filmmaking brothers on a quest to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking. But unlike 45365, a romantic and beautifully shot…