Cult leaders! Despots! And a man who goes by the name of Mr. Toilet. One of the city’s most popular film fests, DOC NYC, starts…
Errol Morris Made a ‘Fucked Up Movie’ About Steve Bannon, and Bannon Apparently Liked It
“I know you’ve already paid to get in here,” Errol Morris told everyone who had just watched American Dharma, his new documentary about Steve Bannon.…
Heidi Klum’s Alien Costume Was So Good, She Should Be Chestbursting With Pride
Video by Angelo Fabara H.R. Giger is having somewhat of a moment lately, as a new documentary about his Oscar-winning visual effects work, Memory: the…
7 Years After Sandy, Rockaway Is Getting Its Handball Courts Back
Seven years after Hurricane Sandy tore more than half of Rockaway Beach’s 5.5-mile boardwalk off its stanchions, the waterfront is thriving again. Last year, Rockaway…
IDNYC Benefits Expand to The Whitney, The Shed, National Sawdust, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and More
City ID holders are about to get a whole lot more worldly. The city announced today that next year, new partners in its IDNYC program…
‘Tell Me Who I Am’ Is a Disturbing Doc About Family Dysfunction, But There’s a Problem With Its Startling Reveal
Tell Me Who I Am is one of the most disturbing documentaries about family dysfunction since Capturing the Friedmans— all the more so because it…
Two New Docs Go Deep Inside the Philippines’ Murderous War on Drugs
“When I smoke meth, I feel nothing when I kill.” The irony is thick as a man paid to execute drug users exhales a cloud…
Bikram Choudhury Is ‘Not Happy’ With a Chilling New Doc About the Hot Yoga Guru
As I waited in line for the US premiere of Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator at the Hamptons International Film Festival on Saturday, I was reading…
In a New Doc, Imelda Marcos’s Son Is a Shoe-In For Vice President
Early in Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary about Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker, there’s a photo of the disgraced former First Lady of the Philippines mingling with one of…
The Director of a New Truman Capote Doc Has a Theory About His Long-Missing, Incendiary Last Novel
What happened to the scathing roman a clef skewering Manhattan high society that Truman Capote may or may not have finished before his untimely death…