Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Lael Loewenstein review this weekend’s new movie releases.
FilmWeek: ‘The Call of the Wild,’ ‘Standing Up, Falling Down’ ‘Emma.’ and more
Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Christy Lemire and Lael Loewenstein review this weekend’s new movie releases.
" The Call of the Wild " in wide release
" Standing Up, Falling Down " at Laemmle’s Monica Film Center
" Emma. " at Arclight Cinemas Hollywood & The Landmark
" Brahms: The Boy II " in wide release
" Premature " at Laemmle’s Monica Film Center, Laemmle’s NoHo & Laemmle’s Playhouse
" Seberg " at ArcLight Hollywood & The Landmark
" The Times of Bill Cunningham " at Arclight Cinemas Hollywood, Laemmle’s Royal, Laemmle’s Playhouse & Laemmle’s Town Center
" The Woman Who Loves Giraffes " at Laemmle’s Monica Film Center, Laemmle’s Claremont, Laemmle’s Playhouse & Laemmle’s Town Center
" Goldie " at Lumiere Music Hall
" Once Were Brothers " at Arclight Cinemas Hollywood & The Landmark
Critics' Hits:
Christy: "Emma." "Premature" & "Goldie"
Lael: "Standing Up, Falling Down" "The Woman Who Loves Giraffes" & "Once Were Brothers"
Mixed Feelings:
Christy: "The Call of the Wild"
Misses:
Christy: "The Times of Bill Cunningham"
Lael: "Seberg"
Guests:
Christy Lemire , film critic for KPCC, RogerEbert.com and co-host of the ‘ Breakfast All Day ’ podcast; she tweets
Lael Loewenstein , KPCC film critic and film columnist for the Santa Monica Daily Press; she tweets
New Book Explores A Century Of Change In American Documentary Filmmaking
It’s hard to imagine how the sprawling, ambitious IMAX documentaries of today could be descendants of films like the silent and largely staged documentary “Nanook of the North,” released nearly one hundred years ago.
In a new book on American documentary film, author Jon Wilkman explores how the form radically formed and evolved over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries into its widely popularized, politically salient contemporary state. “Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America” traces more than a century of change, from prototypical documentaries to the use of film in both World Wars, on to today’s multifaceted documentary styles that have helped propel technological change. Wilkman writes about the inventors, journalists, entrepreneurs, artists, and activists that historically helped to hone documentary’s potential as a source for subjective American truth-telling. He also discusses the unsteady relationship that documentary has with fact and fiction, and how documentary can be used as a form of persuasion even when (and often because) it appears to depict objective truth.
Today on AirTalk, we sit down with Jon Wilkman to discuss his new book and the history of documentary filmmaking in the United States.
Guest:
Jon Wilkman , writer, director and producer for both film and television. He is the author of the book “ Screening Reality: How Documentary Filmmakers Reimagined America ” (Bloomsbury Publishing)